“Contemporary” by Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, from the album “Contemporary”

Award-winning San Francisco Bay-area blues band Rick Estrin & The Nightcats today released a hilarious video for Contemporary, the title track from their decidedly unpredictable new album.

The video, directed by band guitarist Kid Andersen, is a funny, mind-blowing Zappa-esque mashup of Chicago blues, uptown funk, rock ‘n’ roll and tongue-in-cheek rapping. The full album is packed with originals that combine memorable, savvy songwriting and world-class musicianship, creating a potent and powerful modern blues sound.

Contemporary is the band’s fifth album for Alligator Records. With Estrin’s virtuoso harmonica and sly, soulful vocals, Christoffer “Kid” Andersen’s wildly inventive guitar, Lorenzo Farrell’s masterful keyboards and Derrick “D’Mar” Martin’s funky, creative drumming, the band takes Estrin’s ingenious, original songs to new and unexpected places. With these musically fearless players kicking everything up a notch, Contemporary explores some different sounds, instrumentation and grooves from their previous releases, as they continue to reinvent traditional blues styles.