Other early rock musicians came to play there, including Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Conway Twitty.
Bass duties were carried out by Scott Edwards, Klaus Voormann, Bob Glaub, and Leland Sklar.
[1] The album contained the duo's only Top 40 single, "Union Man",[1] which spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 24 in May 1976.
In 1979, they reached a wider audience when they appeared on the PBS music television program Austin City Limits, taped in December 1978.
Although they only issued one recording through the 1980s, they remained a popular touring act around the southern country rock and blues circuit of the Tennessee and Arkansas region.
[7] On September 6, 1980, "Levon Helm & The Cate Brothers" opened a three act concert at the State Fairgrounds in Lewiston, ME.
[9] While the early albums made heavy use of studio musicians, the core group has remained a small, fairly consistent lineup throughout its career.
Levon Helm's nephew, Terry Cagle, played drums with the Cate brothers from before their first recordings, when still called The Del-Rays, until 1989.