DISCOGRAPHY 1989-2015 (13CD)
BIOGRAPHY
Co-founded in Montreal, Canada in 1992 by guitarist Paul Deslauriers
and pianist virtuoso Paul Buonassisi, these boys were deemed by some
critics at the time to be one of "Canada's hottest blues-rock
bands".After a year of extensive touring in eastern Canada, selling out clubs and woo-ing festival goers everywhere like at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the band relocated to Vancouver to branch out and create a larger and more diversified fan base.
Their official recording debut came in 1994, when they gave us "What A
Way To Make A Living" and then "Bone-ified" in 1995; two independent gems
that sold out two complete pressings each, just off the stage, without any
official form of distribution! That's pretty good by Canadian
standards...
A definite highlight for the band was kicking off their 'Bone-ified Tour'
opening up for one of Canada's top bluesmen, Colin James, on his cross
Canada jaunt in the summer of '95. They followed that up in May of '96 by
snatching the 1st runner-up position in Demo Listen Derby, the highly
esteemed contest held annually by Vancouver's no. 1 rock radio station
99.3 The Fox. Paul Deslauriers picked up further honors by receiving the
Best Guitarist award.
The band also contributed 2 songs to the Vancouver Seeds XI CD and
appeared on the televised Demo Vision / Project Discovery. That same year,
Deslauriers received further industry recognition for his song writing
skills, picking up the best Rock/pop/alternative song award in the 1996
Write-On Song Contest for the song 'Thin Prayer'. He won another in the
best blues-rock category for his song 'Bye-Bye Baby'.
Black Cat Bone's independently produced video for the song 'Mr. Fiction'
was also a regular on Much Music's Indie Spotlight, thanks to numerous
'write-in' fan requests. Director Bruce Sweeny also used the song in the
soundtrack for the film 'Dirty', featured at the 1998 Vancouver
International Film Festival. Also, in 1995, the Godfather of blues
himself, Bryan Lee, invited both Paul's to play on his then upcoming album
'Heat Seeking Missile'. They were even chosen to play as Bo Diddley's
back-up band, oh ya, these guys were the shizdaat fo shizzle, or
whatever...totally crunk! Yes, yes that's it!
Tragically, in December 1996, Black Cat Bone co-founder Paul Buonassisi
suffered serious injuries in a near fatal car accident which left him
unable to continue his work with the band. Paul Deslauriers has since
toured with international acts like Garou, Amanda Marshall, Johnny
Ferreira & the Swing Machine, France D'Amour, The Dawn Tyler Blues
Project and currently fronts his own blues-rock power trio called the Paul
Deslauriers Band.
As for Black Cat Bone, although they did reunite in the summer of 2004
for a handful of shows, the band is not currently active nor touring.
However, both albums have been re-issued under Deslauriers' own Big Toe
Productions, commemorating each album's 10th anniversary. Robert Johnson
and Clapton/Mayall fans will surely appreciate the covers like 'Walking
Blues', 'Rambling on my Mind', and the totally re-arranged 'Cross Road
Blues'.