Roy Carrier And The Night Rockers - Whiskey-Drinkin' Man
Жанр: Blues | Zydeco | Cajun
Страна: USA
Год издания: 2001
Аудиокодек: MP3
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: 320 kbps
Продолжительность: 00:56:44
01 - Whiskey Drinkin' Man [00:03:10]
02 - Gotta Right To Love That Woman [00:04:53]
03 - Allons Danser [00:03:00]
04 - Bad Luck [00:04:22]
05 - I Found My Woman [00:02:07]
06 - Ti Garcon [00:02:29]
07 - Co-Fet [00:02:26]
08 - Time To Start [00:02:45]
09 - My Toot Toot [00:03:21]
10 - Take Me Back [00:04:04]
11 - Take Me Home [00:02:44]
12 - Don't You Leave Me [00:04:24]
13 - On My Way Back Home [00:03:30]
14 - Rock-It Like Roy [00:04:40]
15 - Bugga Bear [00:03:52]
16 - Boogie All Night [00:04:50]
About
Call it party zydeco sunburned black, barefoot and drunk on cheap beer. Sure, zydeco is meant to move your feet in the first place, but this half-live, half-studio disc takes it to the next level; it sounds like a funked-up, wound-up, swamp-rat Booker T. & The MG's featuring accordion instead of Hammond B-3. This dance ain't for everybody, only the sexy people. I defy you to tell the live stuff from the studio stuff without checking the liner notes.
That live stuff was recorded on a hot night in Maryland, of all places, but it matters not to Carrier, whose family was full of zydeco legends long before "My Toot-Toot" (sort of) catapulted the genre into the mainstream. Ever the crowd pleaser. Carrier covers "My Toot-Toot" on Whiskey-Drinkin Man, putting some backbone (or is that neck bone?) back into it, and he also performs his '87 hit "I Found My Woman," a curveball of a cuckolds lament that he prefaces thusly:
"It ain't good to travel too much, 'cause you gonna find somebody like this."
Through it all, the tempo is hot, the call-and-response constant and the groove as tight as any ska or funk band's . Each song a direct (if unintentional) slap in the face to those who would use South Louisiana dance music as a background for car commercials. Among other surprises. Carrier and Co. pay tribute to their bandleader's mentor, John Delafose, on a rousing cover of his "Co-Fet?" And check the liner notes for the story behind the aptly titled "Time To Start," where half the band has to be encouraged to leave the crowd and get on stage. "Russell, where are you?" Carrier calls out, worriedly, as the rubboard duels with the rhythm section. Now, that's a party. ~Robert Fontenot
