Catfood Records owner Bob Trenchard has worked in the music business for over 50 years in a variety of roles. Originally linked with Johnny Rawls and Kay Kay and the Rays as a bass player, songwriter, and producer, Trenchard launched Catfood Records in 2001 with the Rays’ Texas Justice CD. The Rays went on to record several albums for Catfood with Johnny Rawls, Barbara Carr, Otis Clay, James Armstrong, Jackie Johnson, Daunielle, Sandy Carroll, Dave Keller, and others. Catfood artists have won Living Blues Southern Soul Album of the Year four times, and five albums have made Downbeat Magazine Critics’ Best Albums of the Year List. In addition, Catfood artists have been nominated for Blues Blast Magazine Music Awards and received nine BMA nominations. Trenchard’s service to the blues and to his community does not stop with his work for Catfood. He has served on The Blues Foundation’s Board of Directors and is President of the Trenchard Foundation, which has awarded 33 college scholarships to students in West Texas and New Mexico. In 2016, when his youngest son, Trey, died, Trenchard partnered with the University of Nebraska Foundation to ensure that his family’s support would continue in perpetuity through the Trenchard Institute of Excellence college scholarship program.
