Soothing Music For Stray Cats is the debut solo album by the Liverpudlian musician, songwriter and singer, Edgar "Jones" Jones. It was released on 9 May 2005 on The Viper Label. It combined a number of musical styles including jazz, rock and roll, doo-wop, soul, R&B and funk, across the instrumentals and songs that comprise the album.
All tracks were written by Jones, except "It's My Bass" which was written by The Isley Brothers. The song "Freedom" contained an interpolation of "Moonlight Serenade" by Glenn Miller and lyrics by Charles Mingus, and "Tenderly" contained an interpolation of "Blue Monk" by Thelonious Monk.
Noel Gallagher of Oasis said of the album "It bent my head, man. It's probably one of the best records I have ever heard".
Soothing Music for Stray Cats was also the inspiration behind the title for the novel by British author Jayne Joso.
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