Originally an early demo, 'Cathouse Blues' was officially recorded and released on Stevie's most recent album, '24 Karat Gold: Songs From The Vault".

"Cathouse Blues" is the oldest song on 24 Karat Gold, and it's a very unusual style for you, almost ragtime."

"-- It is unusual. I think I wrote it in 1969, maybe '68. It's about some cartoon cats. They're hanging out on a fence and -- I don't want to say hooker cats, because they weren't that, but they were definitely street cats. When it says "blue-gray eyes," I think that must have been about Lindsey, because he has blue-gray eyes.

At 15 and a half, I fell in love with a really handsome boy in Arcadia High School in Los Angeles. Thank God for that, because even though my relationship with Lindsey didn't really end well, the passionate feeling I had for this man - who I still know very well, and, in my own way, will always be crazy about- he brought out this love song."

I got the Cathouse Blues
I wear the highest of high heel shoes
Whoa, darling, it's hard to be surrounded
Where the women are lazy,
And the men are rude
I got the cat walk, don't talk blues
I creep on cat's feet,
I don't speak loose
Yourself in velvet,
Forget we ever met
I got the closed in,
The Cathouse Blues
Blue gray eyes that say
I guess you don't remember
I guess that I was younger
To say the cat sleeps alone,
Sleeps only in the sun
But she'll awake tonight
And she'll be gone
Singing the Cathouse Blues
I need some new red velvet shoes
I'm still a dreamer's fancy
Well they say I'm pretty classy
I'm just a feeling silky cat come true
I'm just a feeling silky cat come true
I'm just a feeling silky cat come true
Oh yeah

I'm still a dreamer's fancy
They say I'm pretty classy
I'm just a feeling silky cat come true
I'm just a feeling silky cat come true
I'm just a feeling silky cat come true