Adam's House Cat

With a guitar punch like the Replacements and Drivin' n' Cryin', a bit of R.E.M.'s melodic sense, and a smart punk rocker's unvarnished view of the world, Adam's House Cat was a band that should have made a splash in the alternative rock scene of the late '80s and early '90s. That didn't happen, but the group's two founders, Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, would take the lessons they learned from the band and put them to good use in the Drive-By Truckers, the group they formed five years after Adam's House Cat broke up. A clever, hard-rocking band that was in the wrong place (...