Effective period / Period of releases: 1986 - 1987

Members: Peter Knight (2), Charles Todd, Nick Cross, James Martin (2), Philip Viggiano, Tony Dennis (2), Bruce Coombs, Paul Janovskis

Australian rock band: mid-1980s to 1988. Melbourne outfit Cattletruck started life as Caught in a Cattletruck, a small-time St. Kilda bar band playing in an acoustic country-blues idiom. Paul Janovskis and Tony Dennis formed the band out of a mutual love of the roots music of Johnny Cash, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and early Elvis Presley. Paul Janovskis and Tony Dennis decided to take on a more electric sound. Phil Viggiano (keyboards) and Peter Knight (trumpet) joined in early 1985. With the departure of Todd, who joined The Wreckery, the band recruited Nick Cross on sax.