The Cate Brothers: Cate Brothers
Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 29 January 1976
TEN YEARS AGO, Earl and Ernie Cate were playing the same Arkansas bars as Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks. While the Hawks have moved on with Dylan and on their own as the Band, the Cate boys have kept toiling away in those bars.
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