Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers - Classics *

Artist:

Jocque, Beau

UPC:

011661217829

See Also:

Meters (The) Rockin` Sidney Rockin` Dopsie

Description:

Full performer name: Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers.
Personnel includes: Beau Jocque (vocals, accordion); Ray Johnson, Russell "Sly" Dorion, Sr. (guitar, background vocals); Michael Lockett (Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, background vocals); Chuck Bush (bass, background vocals);
Steve "Skeeta" Charlot (drums, background vocals); Wilfred "Caveman" Pierre (rubboard, background vocals).
Recorded between 1993 & 1998.
Personnel: Beau Jocque (vocals, accordion); Ray Johnson, Russell Dorion (guitar, background vocals); Michael Lockett (keyboards, percussion, keyboard programming, background vocals); Chuck Bush (6-string bass, background vocals); Steve "Skeeta" Charlot (drums, rub-board, background vocals); Wilfred Pierre (rub-board, background vocals).
Audio Mixer: David Farrell .
Recording information: Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans, LA (02/1993-03/1998).
Photographer: Rick Olivier.
This retrospective collection draws on material from Beau Jocque`s four previous studio recordings for the Rounder label: Beau Jocque Boogie (1993), Pick Up on This! (1994), Gonna Take You Downtown (1996), and Check It Out, Lock It In, Crank It Up! (1998). When Beau Jocque died of a heart attack in 1999, the world of zydeco music lost one of its most exciting talents, a man who took the traditional sounds he had learned at his father`s knee and combined them with elements of rock & roll, funk, R&B, and even reggae. Not everything on this collection is spectacular -- his adaptation of the John Lee Hooker classic "Boogie Chillun" is more interesting in theory than in practice (a six-minute-long one-chord blues is just as boring when you play it zydeco style as it is when you play it boogie style), and "Brownskin Woman" is an only partially successful attempt at an original blues-zydeco fusion. But the ska-inflected "Don`t Tell Your Mama, Don`t Tell Your Papa" is a pure delight, as is the rollicking "She Wants to Sell My Monkey." And "Give Him Cornbread" is a modern classic that will live on for decades. Recommended. ~ Rick Anderson

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Don`t Tell Your Mama, Don`t Tell Your Papa
2. She Wants to Sell My Monkey
3. Boogie Chillun
4. Beau Jocque Boogie
5. Keep a Knockin`
6. Brownskin Woman
7. Just One Kiss
8. Richard`s Club
9. Yesterday
10. Give Him Cornbread

Album Information

Release Date:

10/14/2003

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Cajun

Label:

Rounder Select

Producer:

Scott Billington

Catalog Number:

ROUCD 2178

Original Release Year:

2003

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

51 : 37

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