Track Listings (8) - Disc #1| All Artists: Wild Tchoupitoulas Title: Wild Tchoupitoulas Members Wishing: 7 Total Copies: 0 Label: Mango Release Date: 10/25/1990 Genres: Blues, International Music, R&B Styles: Regional Blues, Cajun & Zydeco, Funk, Soul Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 016253705227 |
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Mardi Gras remains one of America's most other-worldly cultural riots, never more exotic than in the beaded, feathered spectacle of New Orleans' black "Indian" tribes. Each year they stir the city's African, Native America... more » |
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Amazon.com Mardi Gras remains one of America's most other-worldly cultural riots, never more exotic than in the beaded, feathered spectacle of New Orleans' black "Indian" tribes. Each year they stir the city's African, Native American, and European influences into an intoxicating gumbo roiling with syncopated rhythms and coded with their own sense of the festival's competitive spirit. It's that tradition that explains this deliriously infectious 1976 project, which magnifies the Tchoupitoulas' fanny-shaking bravado with a formidable studio crew helmed by producer Allen Toussaint, who enlisted the Neville Brothers and the Meters to give these tracks a kinetic R&B push-and-pull. With the Nevilles' choral vocals fleshing out traditional chants, this is funky prancing of the highest order, from the infectious "Brother John" to a ripe remake of the Meters' "Hey Pocky A-Way." One need only hear the tough bragging of "Meet the Boys on the Battlefront," with its promise that "the Wild Tchoupitoulas gonna stomp some rump," to get the outrageous picture. --Sam Sutherland Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsLightning Strikes! Eric V. Jung | Bear Valley, CA United States | 12/04/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "Every now and then the planets line up just right and we get a confluence of fragile artistic elements. This album is like that, a beautiful soap bubble that dazzled with the rainbow colors of the Tchoupitoulas' costumes, floated above the crowd, and burst, leaving the Neville Brothers band as the residue. The light touch of the arrangements, where spaces are as important as hits, provides the perfect setting for the happiest, huskiest harmonies. The rough-edged street singing of the Landrys is a perfect mix with the polished studio vocals of the Nevilles, who just happened to be related to the Landrys. This was a rare unrepeatable combination. Knowing that the lyrics are rooted in reality, the drinking and fighting tradition of the New Orleans Indians in which the Landrys participated, gives the whole thing an extra dose of credibility. It's not only one of the best albums to listen and dance to, it represents a unique burst of American culture, a lightning strike that could never be reconstructed. Let this album run in your car for a week and you'll know all the words and be singing with the Big Chief!"
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