Cat Ballou is a German Kölschrock band. They became known in 2012 with Et jitt kei Wood.
The three band members Oliver Niesen, Dominik Schönenborn and Kevin Wittwer already played together with drummer Michael Kraus in school bands. Cat Ballou, named after the feature film of the same name, was founded in Bergisch Gladbach east of Cologne in 1999. They performed regionally and their first album Schokolade was released in 2008. The quartet had their first big success in the same year as the winner of the Cologne band competition. The following year they released the EP Achterbahn and the single Kokosnuss and in January 2012 their album Neulich.

In the autumn of the same year they wrote Et jitt kei Wood, a song about the city of Cologne, with which they won the competition Loss mer singe in the final sprint of the carnival at the beginning of 2013. The song then made it into the German single charts. Initially the group was signed to Pavement Records, but in October 2017 they founded their own label called MIAO Records. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.