In 1958, folklorist Frederic Ramsey, Jr. recorded someone named Cat-Iron in Buckner's Alley in Natchez, Mississippi. Ramsey whote a detailed poetic description of his discovery of Cat-Iron for The Saturday Review which, alas, offered no background on the artist. A biographic cipher, Cat-Iron's sole testament is "Cat-Iron Sings Blues and Hymns," described in the 1958 Folkways catalogue as "old-time Negro songs and guitar style." ~ Mark A. Humphrey