Last August, we told you about a superb mini-album from UK blues-rockers Catfish. Sadly, the band’s very talented guitarist and singer Matt Long lost his battle with cancer just a few months later, in probably the most tragic loss to the blues world since that of another rising guitarist and singer, Sean Costello, in 2008.
In early February, Matt’s father and Catfish keyboardist Paul Long posted on social media that “There can be no Catfish without Matt…” and that the band would no longer be performing under the Catfish name, although the elder Long and two other remaining members of the band did want to continue to play together and had formed a new band called Burning Rope, with Alex Voysey joining them on guitar.
The other good news from Paul, in addition to us still being able to hear most of the band playing together in Burning Rope, was that Paul and the band had just finished a final album from Catfish to be titled Time to Fly. We’ll tell you more about that album soon but, in the meantime, here’s a great part-concert footage, part-animated video the band released today for the album’s hard-driving title track.
Fly on, Matt!