munk said:
We need the Zydeco, man, not going without the Zydeco.
munk
Munk,
Maybe we could bring Donna The Buffalo along for some zydeco. Ever heard them?
"Based in Ithaca, the group came together as musicians sharing a common interest in old-time fiddle music. Though they park their vintage tour bus in Ithaca and maintain an office there, the members actually live up and down the East Coast as far south as North Carolina. Through the festival network, they started getting into all kinds of roots/traditional music including Cajun and zydeco. "All of us have always been great admirers of Bob Marley and we all like country music a lot," says Tara. "We were never real, like, rock 'n' roll musicians ... we just started playing electric instruments about 10 years ago and this is what came out. It wasn't just rock 'n' roll, it wasn't just country, it wasn't just reggae--it was kind of a combination of the influences that we had been enjoying and been a part of for quite a few years."
As to the music, they write most all of it; there's one cover tune on the record, and that's the only one they do. "Jeb writes and I write and we just bring them to the band and the band joins in and everybody finds their part and we trim it up, trim it down," says Tara, adding that the Louisiana influence is "mainly a zydeco thing ... We're all big fans of zydeco, but several years ago I got totally in love with zydeco music and started to learn to play zydeco on one-row accordion. Over time, as I've been able to play recognizably, it just naturally worked itself in." Two songs on the CD are "very audibly a take-off on the zydeco beat," she notes--both the lead cut, "Tides of Time," and one co-written by Tara and Jeb with the lyrics "We've got your dream Mr. King," step out strong with squeeze-box rounds. "
They are great, part Grateful Dead, Part Emmy Lou Harris, Part Bob Marley, Part CJ Chenier.
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