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The album that launched one-man-band Harry Manx onto the international stage is sparse, soulful, and contemplative. Dog My Cat highlights Harry's brilliant mastery of the lap slide guitar, banjo, harmonica and vocals, not to mention the unique Mohan Veena - a 20- string Indian slide guitar. Recorded in a single 11-hour studio session with only harmonica and occasional guitar solo overdubs, Dog My Cat captured the attention of music peers, fans and reviewers. The Canadian Independent Music Awards voted it as the Best Blues Album of the Year in 2002 and was also nominated for Blues Album of the Year by the Toronto Blues Society that same year. Of the thirteen tunes on this album, most of them are Manx originals, including the favourites Bring That Thing, Sunday Morning Ascension and Lay Down My Worries. Two instrumental ragas emphasize Manx's connection to India and that of his years of tutelage under Mohan Veena creator V.M. Bhatt. Well-chosen cover tunes such as Muddy Waters' Can't Be Satisfied and Baby Please Don't Go are given a new treatment that has one reviewer remarking: Finally, the promise of Ganges Delta blues is fulfilled. (SonicNet). Merging traditional blues with that of Indian ragas, it's this disc that established Harry Manx as the essential link between the music of the East and the West. As Harry himself says, This CD is about the depth and truth of the blues and the transcendence of the raga. Some of the songs hint at the unspeakable, the rest are deep-rooted in the earth.