Loose Cattle

Loose Cattle is led in tandem by Michael Cerveris and Kimberly Kaye - a onetime couple, enduring friends and lifelong working artists. They joined forces with Rene Coman and Doug Garrison, 40-year veterans of the Latin-inflected roots-rockers the Iguanas and Alex Chilton’s former rhythm section; they also roped in fiddler and vocalist Rurik Nunan as a regular, plus a host of repeat co-conspirators from a bench that, in the Crescent City, is even deeper than the Mississippi that runs through it.Loose Cattle are inheritors of the progressive politics and compassionate humanity of folk and country truth-tellers past and present, some of whom have become friends: both Lucinda Williams and Patterson Hood guest on Someone’s Monster, produced by John Agnello (Son Volt, Dinosaur Jr.) as their debut for the mighty Southern indie Single Lock Records. The album ably takes on these weird American times with tenderness, rigor, empathy, and guitars.