nola music

Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers
Funky, pure zydeco fun.
The new generation of zydeco
CD produced by Buckwheat himself
http://www.lilbrian.com/



Michael Doucet
Master fiddler
Often plays with Cajun Band BeauSoliel
Lots of Traditional music
http://www.rosebudus.com/beausoleil/

Zachary Richard
Cajun Renaissance Man
Singer Songwriter/Poet
http://www.zacharyrichard.com/


Clifton Chenier
The Undisputed King and Ambassador of Zydeco
http://www.coldbacon.com/music/clifton.html



Chubby Carrier
Party Master/Accordianist Extraordinaire
If your butt ain't moving when he takes the stage
you better call 911
http://www.chubbycarrier.com/



Buckwheat Zydeco
If there could be two Kings of Zydeco
he'd be standing next to Clifton
http://www.buckwheatzydeco.com/

Al'right petit acadiennes here it is as promised, a bit about zydeco and cajun music and culture. To save space i am gonna turn you on to some websites that will catch you up.

Cajun History: http://ccet.louisiana.edu/03a_Cultural_Tourism_Files/01.02_The_People/Acadians.html

Zydeco/Cajun Music:
http://www.lsue.edu/acadgate/music/history.htm

You can google the artists above to find out more about them.

The louisiana.edu site is really good because it has an encyclopedia of cajun terms including recipes for gumbo and etouffee. mmmmm !!

On a sadder note i found this post katrina interview with Charmaine Neville, daughter of Charles Neville, sax player for the Neville Brothers Band.

Here is the URL and the URL for her band site.

I have spent time with Charmaine, Reggie and Asa and my heart broke when i saw the interview. Give them a hand and order a CD or go see one of their shows. I guarantee you will not be disappointed. These musicians are some of the best in New Orleans and Charmaine's voice is like eating a beignet with a cup of Cafe du Monde coffee.

Let's not forget these beautiful people and their friends, family and neighbors on the gulf coast. Make sure you contribute again and bug the hell outta your congressman when you read something new about FEMA's failures.

This isn't going away anytime soon and in this media world of soundbites it is too easy to forget the many who are still suffering.

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2679391?htv=12

http://www.charmainenevilleband.com/cntheband.html

And if you don't want to make your own gumbo click on the Sauceboss link to the right and checkout my friend Bill Wharton. He makes gumbo on stage while they play and serves it up after the show. It is truly a religious experience. For you Parrotheads who haven't discovered Bill yet, Jimmy sings about Bill on his Beachhouse on the Moon CD--check out track 7-- I Will Play For Gumbo!

Of course this post would not be complete without mentioning Tobacco Road, Miami, FL the world's best blues bar celebrating their 93rd birthday this month.
This is where i first heard anything cajun or zydeco and the first time eating gumbo! Thanks Pat, Mark, Graham and IKO-IKO, John Wenzel, Roach and Kay.

http://www.tobacco-road.com/

colored people

Images from the 2005 World Body Painting Festival

I discovered their site in 2002 when it was the European Body Painting Festival
and was hooked. I think every town should have one. Just one day to have some fun celebrating how we perceive the human body.

Sitting here with a cup of mate. We finally have the marine layer back this morning. Cool and gray. I'm not really much for either as an all day thing unless it is sprinkled with lots of female sunshine. You know, smiles and other facial expressions and all that feminine energy from silly to sexual to serious that comes in all those insanely different packages of curves and movements.

Think I will go out for some sun today and later sit and continue trying to learn a couple of Stephen Stills songs. Alternate tuning DDDDAD for Suite Judy Blue Eyes and Wordgame. I've already figured the chords to Acadienne off his new CD so now have to start putting words to it. Don't know how I will do with the cajun words. For those who don't know Cajun is the way the word Acadian is pronounced after years of living and loving in the heat and humidity of a swamp.
The Acadians are originally French Canadians who were booted out by the British.
More on that and Zydeco later.

Day Four

Artist of the Day: Taj Mahal
Blues, R&B, Roots Rock

tres afternoon

sitting here sending urls to my dad. such a lovable person packaged in an emotionally unavailable lifetime.
the urls are about ladd air force base in fairbanks, alaska. 130 days to go 'til itidarod! i wanted to see if it passed thru fairbanks where i first showed up on this planet or where i was born for those with less fertile imaginations.
anyway. i am also watching a jackson browne dvd. going home it's called. i love netflix.

music moves me. i can feel what a songwriter is singing about. i see images when i hear their words and music. i make little videos in my head. had a three song video worked out back when i heard paul simon's mother and child reunion LP. MTV didn't exist back then. ahead of my time i guess.

on dvd i can not only hear their voice but see facial expressions and body language. then there is also the chance to pick up some fingerwork on a fretboard although most camera operators are not guitar players and frustrate those of us who are.

email from the didz kid in kaaui.
she told me about the characters she has encountered on the island and that she may start a novel about them. she also wrote about the new love she left here and how she is surprisingly o.k. with that. she's exchanging emails with him and growing.

so many more tools and opportunities for her generation, but still the work of incorporating it into who she is.
such a buddha child.

tres

sunday morning
cup of mate and some stretches
a couple of yawns
emailed some music to oregon
never done that before
van morrison, bruce cockburn
it's sunny and hot again
i'm not a real desert person
too dry, not enough green
no smell of humus

here again

it's morning here in so. cal.
clear sky and hot already because we have wind coming in from the desert.
i live 3 blocks from the ocean and usually the wind is reversed.
we usually wake up to a marine layer fog which burns off by 10 a.m.
and our mornings are much cooler. it's gonna be a hot one.

just got stephen stills' new cd. it's really a great cd. his writing and guitar work and vocals are at their best. i realize not many have followed his solo
career and at times it was disappointing but he really pulled this one off.
well enuf for now.

first time blogging

wow ! first blog post.

so hey out there.
wasn't ready to ramble on here.
just wanted to set up this thing up.