kudzurunner
4493 posts
Jan 18, 2014
6:43 AM
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I'm interested in covering some zydeco tunes. Please suggest tunes and offer videos. (Note: Much as I love Jerry Devillier and his repertoire, I'm NOT interested in covering that sort of tune with The Blues Doctors.) Thanks.
Actually, I found one. It's called "Hot Tamale Baby" and all the zydeco acts do it:
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NiteCrawler .
255 posts
Jan 18, 2014
6:57 AM
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I,m not savey on uploading but one artist that comes to mind is Mel Melton and The Wicked Mojo,s.Thats a start for ya,if you have not heard him check his music out.
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Rhartt1234
115 posts
Jan 18, 2014
8:00 AM
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"Hot Tamale Baby" has always reminded me of Little Walter's "Up The Line". The bass lines are nearly identical.
I'm sure you're already hip to him Adam, but you should check out Rockin' Sidney.
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barbequebob
2448 posts
Jan 18, 2014
8:12 AM
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The best known Rockin' Sydney tune is one that was covered by the T-Birds:
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kudzurunner
4494 posts
Jan 18, 2014
8:48 AM
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And of course Little Walter was from the northernmost part of zydeco country: Marks, Louisiana. He spoke "Frenchy," according to Honeyboy. He grew up in a francophone area. So it makes sense that he'd do at least a song or two with that flavor.
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walterharp
1289 posts
Jan 18, 2014
8:48 AM
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you gotta cover Chenier...
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6SN7
413 posts
Jan 18, 2014
8:50 AM
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My band does a version of "I Believe I'm In Love with You", Tbirds style, not Bonnie Raitt version.
I like doing "Slippin In" , too.
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kudzurunner
4495 posts
Jan 18, 2014
8:51 AM
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Here's the original of "Hot Tamale Baby":
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Goldbrick
281 posts
Jan 18, 2014
10:04 AM
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Fits right -Bluesy and zydeco
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kudzurunner
4496 posts
Jan 18, 2014
10:39 AM
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Hondo
268 posts
Jan 18, 2014
11:53 AM
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Scoltx
114 posts
Jan 18, 2014
2:15 PM
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Jerome Godboo includes a couple of Zydeco tunes in his set. He even dons a washboard vest something like this.
http://elderly.com/vintage/items/200U-2068.htm
I know he play's Don't Mess With My Toot Toot which worked pretty well with harmonica instead of accordion.
Couldn't find any youtube videos of him playing in that style but he has several Zydeco videos favourited in his YouTube page.
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HarveyHarp
565 posts
Jan 18, 2014
2:50 PM
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Adam, I play a lot with Waylon Thibodeaux, who plays and I love it. Here is a sampling.
http://www.last.fm/music/Waylon+Thibodeaux
I hear Big Mameux, Row Row Row your Piero, Jambalaya, etc.
Also, I like Keith Frank, especially his rendition of Moving on Up (The Jeffersons)
What Jerry Devilier does is not Zydeco, its Cajun.
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kudzurunner
4498 posts
Jan 18, 2014
4:16 PM
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Thanks, Harvey. (And thanks for showing up at several recent NOLA gigs by the Blues Doctors.) What provoked this thread was the fact that the Docs just got a pair of Louisiana gigs in early May, both in the vicinity of Baton Rouge, and only 12 miles apart. One is a white crowd; the other is a black crowd. The agent who got us these gigs, a Louisiana native, took some time to tell me that we needed to be prepared to play music that the locals would dance to. (He also reminded me that Louisiana is the most segregated state in the country, all the "gumbo" talk notwithstanding.) Quite a charge for a couple of Mississippi-based white blues players from the Northeast!
But I take this stuff seriously, and I'd been looking to broaden our range a bit. I've always loved zydeco and wanted to go that way anyway; I also love the bluesy side of country and also have no qualms about trying to cover pop-country stuff.
So we're....working on it.
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Wendell
23 posts
Jan 18, 2014
6:24 PM
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Which type of harp would get the accorrdian sound: octave or tremelo ?
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walterharp
1290 posts
Jan 18, 2014
7:18 PM
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we do crosscut saw with that groove, which you sat in on Adam.. with 4 harps. so it works for that. has the sexual innuendo, the groove and both audiences might well have references to get the on the dance floor.
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GMaj7
336 posts
Jan 18, 2014
7:57 PM
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Wendell, you can get the accordion sound using tongue-block splits and it gives a nice honey tonk sound. Lonnie Joe Howell does it well.
You can also get a good Zydeco sound using an octave like an Auto Valve especially if it is Melody Maker or Spiral Tuned.
To me, a wet tremolo does a nice diatonic accordion sound but it is distinctly Irish or Cajun and not so much Zydeco.
Ahh.. but I'm a good bit west on I-10 from area so what would I know. Harvey's the man on this stuff...
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SuperBee
1621 posts
Jan 18, 2014
11:51 PM
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Thanks for this thread; I think I'll use zydeco as a theme in my next radio programme. We even have a local band (lagoon zydeco)..yes, very good...maybe I can even get an interview happening...
And squeeze in a blues doctors track or 2 as a segue...
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kudzurunner
4500 posts
Jan 19, 2014
4:27 AM
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Wow! Here's Dave Harris doing a fantastic job of making an auto-valve harp sound like a zydeco accordion. This is the best so far:
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kudzurunner
4501 posts
Jan 19, 2014
4:45 AM
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Here's some down-home zydeco harp:
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GMaj7
337 posts
Jan 19, 2014
5:41 AM
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Dave Harris is an amazing player and quite the Canadian gentleman.
He has more instruments than a Sam Ash warehouse and can play them all.
I'm thinking that awesome video of his set some kind of world record for most notes played on a harmonica in 2 minutes!
The Auto Valve is a really cool instrument with a great sound and a lot of musical applications. I've got a few I've been messing around with, to include converting to Melody Maker.
Way to go Kuds on finding this vid!
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Shredder
389 posts
Jan 19, 2014
8:08 PM
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I use a 16 hole Hohner Comet harmonica " its octive tuned with double reeds". It sounds like my cajun accordion,... well very close. The Comet was given to me and I was suprised to find playing it really had that cajun sound.If you breathe like the stroke/rhythm of an accordion it has that sound.Splits don't work so well on this harp. I had people tell me they were looking to see who was playing the squeez box on stage.They didn't know it was me.
Mike
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walterharp
1292 posts
Jan 20, 2014
7:01 AM
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ok this one is cajun, probably, but it has the groove it would work and features the other mississippi professor harmonica player! :-) (edit Jason corrected me, Tampa Red is the harp player on this tune)
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Littoral
1017 posts
Jan 21, 2014
1:41 PM
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...the other mississippi professor harmonica player! :-)
Ah yes, Linden lightin it up on the solo.
Adam,
I've been thinking a fair bit about this and finally remembered the tune I REALLY wanted to learn, it's Geno Delfose & French Rockin Boogie doing "Hey Geno!".
I haven't found an on-line link yet other than the short sample. It's a great primer for the changes that harp can mimic -especially with the essential octaves needed. On the same album are 2 other tunes that I think would really work, the Charles Wright tune One Lie (Leads To Another) and Wedding Day Waltz.
Doing a Zydeco Waltz would be awesome -they take danving down there VERY seriously.
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Oisin
1067 posts
Jan 22, 2014
12:14 AM
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Walterharp...that's a great tune man.
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kudzurunner
4505 posts
Jan 22, 2014
8:12 AM
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Here's another fantastic video. Listen to what he does at the 1:36 point. Dave Harris is one of the all-time greats. When you realize that he's doing all this as a rack-harp player, I'm forced to say that he may be THE great rack-harp player--of our time, certainly, and perhaps of all time. He's up there with the greats. Jimi Lee and Dave Harris. All praises due!
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The Iceman
1389 posts
Jan 22, 2014
8:26 AM
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A lot of what makes this music exciting is the basic groove behind it.
It's an infectious back beat.
If one can capture that feel, everything played "over it" will make Cajun's wanna dance.
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WinslowYerxa
490 posts
Jan 22, 2014
11:49 AM
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The Joseph Bob cut has a lot in common with the playing of Acadian players Isom Fontenot and Jerry Devillier. Nice find.
Also, the name of the tune, "Snap beans aren't salty," is a translation of the French phrase that's said that gave zydeco its name: "Les haricots sont pas salé" (lay-zarrr-ee-co sonh pa sallay) the "zarrr-i-co part," with it's rolled "rr" that can be mistaken for a "d," gives you "zy-de-co."
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jaymcc28
376 posts
Jan 24, 2014
10:27 AM
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Elvin Bishop does a song called "Black Gal" on his "The Blues Rolled On" album. Great song. I don't have a video but this link should play the tune for you:
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Black+Gal/2RMF6M?src=5
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