The Gringo Pistoleros are back with new single "The Cat Came Back"

The Gringo Pistoleros, prowling out from the shadows with a mischief-fueled grin, arrive with a new track, "The Cat Came Back", and prowls on in and to your ears. The Gringo Pistoleros, a band born from friendship, determination, and an itch that needed to be scratched, hell or high water. It's clever. It's catchy. That's what fans of real-deal Americana have been missing, that storytelling littered with humor and heart.

The song, recorded at Patrick Herzfeld's Signal Hill Studios in Austin, has that particular Texas feel, part outlaw country and part rockabilly romp. Under Laz's direction, and with a trace of the misfit chumminess that lingers from Cory Grinder and the Playboy Scouts, "The Cat Came Back" plays like a midnight jam session gone gloriously off course.

The song fritters with attitude, scrawny guitars, sly vocals, and a rhythm section that can't keep still. There is a wink behind each lyric, a sly tip of the hat to trouble that keeps cycling through even though you keep hoping you have seen the last of it. Whether you are howling at the moon or just spinning records on a crisp October night, "The Cat Came Back" is the soundtrack to your slightly haunted, whiskey-soaked evening.