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 debut 'The Very Best Of Fantastic Cat.' Captured in the wilds of the Pocono Mountains the album gleefully careens between genres and decades mixing electrified 60's folk and 70's AM radio gold with 80's heartland rock and 90's alt-country. The result is a record that balances careful craftsmanship and ecstatic abandon in equal measure a raw intoxicating collection captured live in the moment and fueled by the chemistry of four longtime friends making music for the sheer joy of it. - - Individually each member of Fantastic Cat boasts their own impressive resume along with a litany of critical acclaim. The Guardian dubbed Don DiLego "one to watch." NPR said Anthony D'Amato "sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter." Rolling Stone called Brian Dunne's latest single a "stunner" 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 an instrument-swapping harmony-trading tear-jerking wise-cracking rock and roll cooperative far greater than the sum of it's parts. They say some cats are born fantastic; others have fantasy thrust upon them. These guys are somewhere in the middle. - - Tracks - 1 C'mon Armageddon - 2 New Year's Day - 3 Nobody's Coming to Get You - 4 Wild & Free - 5 Fiona - 6 Amigo - 7 The Gig - 8 Ain't This the Strangest Town - 9 Lakewood - 10 Theme from Cat Fantastic