Loving God, Loving People, Becoming Disciples of Jesus!

CatBeach Music is an indie boutique record label, featuring a roster of unique artists who make darn good music. Take a peek through the website to see what these musos are up to.

Behind the music-making and label-biz, are the husband and wife team – Bobby and Jen Hartry.

Bobby, the creative force behind CatBeach Music, is a guitar player, producer, and songwriter…with a fascination for little toy keyboards and anything that makes an interesting sound… tone… frequency… noise…

Bobby started out as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, then, over the last decade, branched into songwriting and production at his own Catbeach Studio. His fascination with guitar tones, vintage gear, unique pedals, and finding the right sound for each moment, mark his style and influence in the studio. As an Emmy Award winning songwriter, Bobby’s songs have reached audiences around the world with critical acclaim. CatBeach Music capitalizes on Bobby’s unique production aesthetic along with each artists’ personality and song-styling.

Jen oversees the project management, digital and print marketing, and CatBeach Music’s online presence. She also coordinates new business, licensing, and royalty administration…she’s the bizzy one. Her experience in music publishing, magazine production and communications complement Bobby’s progressive process in the studio.

Here at CatBeach Music, we are driven by our love of excellent and compelling music, by artistic and zany ideas, and by creative and lovely souls.

Travis Meadows spent years trying to escape himself. He’s anything but selfish, so he’d find a way to get away––a bottle, a bag, a sermon––and he’d share it with everyone. That was then. Now, Meadows isn’t trying to get anybody lost or high. Instead, he’s trying to get every single one of us to settle in deeply to ourselves––and love what’s there. 

“I feel like what I’m doing is giving people permission to be okay with who they are, where they’re at now,” Meadows says. “A lot of us say stuff like, ‘If I’d been married to this guy or this girl, or if I had enough money, or if I had a better job. If I wasn’t an alcoholic, or if I drank more. If this, if that, then, I think I could be a better person.’” He pauses. “I think the key to life is being okay with who you are.” 

Meadows isn’t just waxing poetic about the perks of self-acceptance. The 52-year-old has clawed his way to the peace he’s found, and his willingness to map that journey through his songs has saved more lives than his own. On his anxiously awaited new album First Cigarette, Meadows proves once again that when he sings the truth he’s living, he can set us all free. “I’ve always put secrets in my records, but I had this ring of fire that nobody could get in––a defense mechanism from my childhood. Nobody gets too close,” he says. “I think this record is a way of me letting people in a little more, inside the ring of fire.” 

Disciples have been dancing by Meadows’ fire for years. Eric Church, Dierks Bentley, Jake Owen, Mary Gauthier, Brandy Clark, Blackberry Smoke, Hank Williams, Jr., Wynonna Judd, Randy Houser, and others began writing with, recording, and praising Meadows as soon as they heard his work. Songs such as “Riser,” the title track for Bentley’s 2015 album; Church’s “Knives of New Orleans” and “Dark Side”; and Owen’s “What We Ain’t Got” are all Meadows-penned chart-climbers.

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