For over a decade, Edd "Catfish" Kray has brought the blues to Denver. With the addition of vocalist Michele Steele in May 2011 our character alters ever so slightly to a harder-edged, guitar-based blues. The band has played virtually every venue in Denver, since its debut in 1997. With the release of its CD, Splash, in 2009, they have moved to national attention.

The CD has received airplay in the US and abroad. It has been featured on Sonny Paynes classic King Biscuit Flour Hour and also played extensively in Europe; from London, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Spain, Poland, Macedonia...Argentina too.

In 2010 it was recognized by the Grammy Foundation as one of 50 entries in the contemporary blues category.

The June, 2010 issue of Downbeat Magazine reviewed "Splash" and gave it the same three star rating as national stars, Sue Foley, Nick Moss, and the Holmes Brothers.

Despite the national attention garnered by the recording, live shows are our forte. Michele Steele, our lead vocalist brings a unique quality to the band with a hearty voice quality like no other in Colorado. In 2010 alone, the band played to over 10,000 fans in live shows.

Catfish Kray has been slinging his guitars since his first show in Cleveland in the early 60's. Influences? probably Albert Collins, Robert Jr Lockwood and (!!) Joe Walsh. Catfish folows the Delta tradition in his blue after almost yearly pilgrimages to Clarksdale, Indianola, Rosedale, Friars Point and other historic towns in the Mississippi Delta. He's sat at the Crossroads at midnight, but kept his sould intact.

The band comes either with or without  a two piece horn section , currently Jason Justice and Jim Dages,  to allow us to get that big BB King sound when needed.

Ed Breazeale (drums) and Rich Sallee (bass) privide the all-important groove.....and groove they do. Just try sitting down once they start!

Goals include continuing to build a reputation as the most exciting band in Colorado,  filling the clubs and festivals, some limited national touring and promotion of the currently well-received recording.