'The Pine Cats' are a New York based band that plays a combination of Americana, Blues, Roots, and Jam music. The band's members, John Putnam (guitar and vocals), and Mike Visceglia (bass), are born and bred New Yorkers and have played and/or recorded with everyone from John Cale, Suzanne Vega, Christopher Cross, David Bromberg, Jorma Kaukonen, Jackson Browne, and Bette Midler, to Madonna (Papa Don't Preach), Rufs Thomas, Cyndi Lauper, Soutside Johnny, Bernard Purdie, Richard Shindell and Jimmy Cliff.
