Catfish Jack has played with numerous bands up and down the West Coast and has gained a reputation as “a harmonica player of the highest order”. Along his travels he has had the pleasure of playing with one of his favorite bands, Los Lobos, at numerous Northern California venues including the historic Fillmore in San Francisco, the SF Blues Festival, the Wells Fargo Center and the Kate Wolf Festival. Recently his trio also opened for Los Lobos at the Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, Colorado.
While living in Austin, Texas he began “sitting in” with the phenomenal Ruthie Foster and also had the privilege of playing with Zydeco master Terrance Simien, Johnny Cash’s piano player of twenty years, Earl Poole Ball, Seth Walker, the Mother Truckers, Sara Elizabeth Campbell and other Austin favorites.