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Originally from Texas she now lives in San Francisco. She is the co-leader of The Lucky Losers, a national touring band that has released 5 albums in the last 10 years, and about to release a 6th in 2025. In 2021 The Lucky Losers won 5 Independent Blues Awards: Best Female Artist – Cathy Lemons Best R&B Soul CD – Godless Land Best R&B Soul Song – Godless Land Best R&B Soul Artist – Cathy Lemons Best Best R&B Soul Release: Godless Land 2020 WINNER / HONORABLE MENTION / INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION – Godless Land https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/1605587204308-CIZSNV0V3WFRHK2VPEOP/peggy+drose.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/1606535190969-M4U2GD0XI85QXZUVTQOZ/shadow.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/1605582461346-PD65ZKLTL1PH2LSFEPK3/VINYL+1594672189023_LL-GL+Front1400.jpg Home - GODLESS LAND On Vizztone “The soulful power of the songs takes hold on the opening track and doesn’t let up until the last groove of the album. If you close your eyes while you’re listening to the opening track, and others on Godless Land, you’d swear you’re listening to Bonnie Bramlett, or maybe Chi Coltrane, for Lemons knows how to dwell in her songs and inhabit the phrases that grab us in our souls.“ — Living Blues, Issue 270, December 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/af4f2cec-d558-4267-ad7f-c86d77d503ca/LL+Square+Cvr_Standin%27+Pat+1400+pxls.jpg Home - Standin’ Pat (2022) “The new album shows that the studio connection Cathy Lemons and Phil Berkowitz make with producer Kid Andersen is wonderful. They conjure a blues of a different hue, one full of surprises and elemental forces. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/1609384339306-GLIP4OWJM4UYX6F5V97T/CD+Baby+Cover.jpg Discography - Blind Spot (2018 on Dirty Cat Records) “An ANTIDOTE to the multitude of emotionally vacant singers, Cathy Lemons sounds genuinely wise, gritty, tender, wounded, and flirtatious, sometimes all at once. Fortunate to have harmonica champ Phil Berkowitz as her partner in songwriting and singing, she crystallizes her creative resolve to put across a program of smart, likeable originals, that sport winning riffs.” — DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE | Frank John Hadley | August 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/1609384437676-LPRC6S1XYAX2U98GXZZA/Vinyl+In+Any+Town+Cover.jpg Discography - In Any Town (2017 on Dirty Cat Records) “A lot of singers have had the mantle put on them but Cathy Lemons really sounds like she should/could be Bonnie Raitt’s long lost duet partner she never sang with. Not unleashing all their goods on their impressive debut, the Losers are back with a dark end of the street sounding set that fuses contemporary blues and soul into the tastiest mix you could hope to find. “ — CHRIS SPECTOR, Midwest Record, July 1st, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/4f6b4182-c103-4ab8-a6b9-1d7ed3faa593/LL+Square+Cvr_Standin%27+Pat+1400+pxls.jpg Discography - Standin’ Pat (2022) “The vaudeville ragtime “Rust Belt Blues” laments the deindustrialization that drove so many desperate unemployed people to rush blindly under the sharp forks of the crassest populism. In line with the Staples Singers, “High Two Pair” celebrates the vital hope that drives any united couple, while the very Philly Sound “Finish What You Started” reveals a Phil Berkowitz who alternately croons for the ladies and adds Charlie McCoy styled harmonica riffs. The resistance song of this disc (at least in terms of duration), the disillusioned “They Wrecked My Town,” recalls the wounded poetry of a Bonnie Raitt (with a guitar solo lyrically played by Ian Lamson).” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/1609384392272-QWAQTLCKWLDSXBIHMOAC/Godless+land+Covr+1400+x+1400+pkls.jpg Discography - Godless Land (2020 on Vizztone) “‘Godless Land’ is a tour de force of blues, Jazz and Americana, often covering timely issues. Since their inception vocalist Lemons has been consistently fine, their anchor. On “Godless Land” vocalist Berkowitz emerges with his finest performances. Andersen’s outstanding production results in one of the best contemporary blues albums of the year.” — Richard Ludmerer, Making A Scene, August 6, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/1609384437676-LPRC6S1XYAX2U98GXZZA/Vinyl+In+Any+Town+Cover.jpg Discography - In Any Town (2017 on Dirty Cat Records) “A lot of singers have had the mantle put on them but Cathy Lemons really sounds like she should/could be Bonnie Raitt’s long lost duet partner she never sang with. Not unleashing all their goods on their impressive debut, the Losers are back with a dark end of the street sounding set that fuses contemporary blues and soul into the tastiest mix you could hope to find.” — CHRIS SPECTOR, Midwest Record, July 1st, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/1609384532823-4UGAXXJLUSHXC2K3R9PL/AWH+Cover+300dpi+square.jpg Discography - A Winning Hand (2015) on Westone Reords) “Joining their voices for the first time on disc, San Franciscans Cathy Lemons and Phil Berkowitz have come up with a winning formula in a band they call “The Lucky Losers.” Their harmonies are particularly fine … (Lemons’) swinging “Suicide by Love” … features her singing along in the unique conversational manner that helps set her apart from other vocalists performing today….Berkowitz blows outstanding harmonica solos throughout.” — LEE HILDEBRAND, Living Blues: Issue No. 238/Volume 46, #4, August 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/1609384661974-YLMFPNQ0PZ6XAQN6OEGI/Black+Crow+Cathy+Lemons+2014.jpg Discography - Black Crow (2014 on Vizztone) “She's lived a hard life, and the singing on her first solo album in many years lends credence to the typically suspect supposition that misfortune is a prerequisite for creating superior blues. Lemons both salves the scars of the past and celebrates new feelings of freedom." — FRANK-JOHN HADLEY, Downbeat Magazine, July 2014 https://www.cathylemonsmusic.com/shows daily 0.75 2021-03-17 https://www.cathylemonsmusic.com/cathy-lemons-artist-of-year daily 1.0 2021-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/1633479908849-4ZITSJ1QWUBLMPMI18O3/0001-7691804511_20210911_191625_0000.png Cathy Lemons Artist of the Year - How can we tell a musical story that creates a better world and brings attention to injustice? https://www.cathylemonsmusic.com/full-bio daily 0.75 2025-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb33a65d4c51240f1071fc2/1606865658224-W4NH2UOC33GG2TX125ES/1560635_10152163113489669_2120914258_n.jpg Full BIO