They said it couldn’t be done. Four different songwriters joining forces to form a single band? There was simply no precedent (outside of CSNY, The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys, The Highwaymen, Monsters of Folk, etc). And yet Fantastic Cat did it anyway, defying the odds and teaming up to record their highly unanticipated 2022 debut, The Very Best Of Fantastic Cat. Hailed by Rolling Stone as "a wildly satisfying collection of folk-rock, country, Americana, and good old rock & roll" that offers “equal doses of Dylan and Springsteen,” the album earned the vocal-trading, instrument-swapping collective their national TV debut, sold-out headline dates around the US and Europe, festival performances everywhere from Sundance to Take Root, and a song in the Showtime series Tulsa King. In 2023, the unlikely four-piece teamed up with all-star producer Butch Walker for a 50th anniversary take on Wings’ “Band On The Run,” which prompted even more love from Rolling Stone, who dubbed them “the Harlem Globetrotters of Americana.”

Individually, each member of Fantastic Cat boasts their own impressive resume along with a litany of critical acclaim. Paste declared Don DiLego’s latest album a “stunner.” NPR said Anthony D’Amato “sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter.” Rolling Stone called Brian Dunne’s new record “the sleeper album of the year” and praised Mike Montali’s band, Hollis Brown, as “the soundtrack for a late-night drive through the American heartland.” Collectively, though, the four transcend their respective roots, emerging as velvet-clad rock and roll cooperative far greater than the sum of its parts.

They say some cats are born fantastic; others have fantasy thrust upon them. These guys are somewhere in the middle.

The Tall Pines are a shack-shakin’ foot stompin’ duo – Connie Lynn Petruk & Christmas Davis – who weld together their love of garage-rock, classic-country, southern-soul and drive-in-movie aesthetics, to create a unique world reflecting their own original style. The Tall Pines host the live music series “The Tall Pines Revue” with the NY Public Theater at Joe’s Pub in New York City, and they have performed at The Stagecoach Music Festival, The 30A Songwriters Festival, as well as on bills with Steve Earle, Nikki Lane, Alejandro Escovedo, Norah Jones’ “Puss N Boots” band, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, Justin Townes Earle, Charlie Louvin, Lloyd Cole, Dylan LeBlanc, The Lost Bayou Ramblers, Lenny Kaye, and many other legends.  With Connie Lynn singing and playing drums on her (faux) alligator-skin suitcase, while Christmas wrings greasy riffs from his guitar, The Tall Pines conjure up road-trip music for everyday life, juke-joint pit-stops, and out of body experiences. We hope that you'll join us for the ride. 

"The Tall Pines are equal parts soul and twang, molasses and moonshine, sass and skill. The songs evoke the heyday of the country-soul hybrid without ever sounding unoriginal, a difficult feat.” ~ Meredith Ochs: NPR