when was the last time LP

Cat Records, the Henry Stone offshoot of TK Records, is where Miami guitarist Little Beaver, born Willie George Hale, built a sound around a single wah pedal line that could sit lower than the singer and still steal the track. His guitar is on Betty Wright's "Clean Up Woman," and his own "Party Down" reached number two on the Billboard R&B chart in 1974. When Was the Last Time came out in 1976, deep in his Miami soul run, and this reissue puts that sparse, laid back sound back on the shelf.