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Funkier than the Radiators, more rockin than the Neville Brothers, jazzier than James Brown, and able to leap tall levees in a single bound, the New Orleans Suspects ARE truly a Supergroup. Skeptics need only survey the Suspect s stupendous resumes: Drummer Mean Willie Green s unique attack defined funk drumming for a quarter of a century with the Neville Brothers; sax player Jeff Watkins was James Brown s musical director for twelve years; guitarist/vocalist Jake Eckert hails from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band; keyboardist/vocalist CR Gruver was a jam monster in Outformation; and Reggie Scanlan was The Radiators bassist for their 33-1/3-year run, after backing legends James Booker and Professor Longhair. The latest evidence of the Suspects acumen is their new release Ouroboros, named for the ancient icon depicting a serpent eating its own tail. For the Suspects the Ouroboros symbolizes their continual recreation of New Orleans music an inextinguishable force always being renewed and reborn. Indeed Ouroboros is a masterful, modern compendium of New Orleans stylings. It has fever-inducing funk, irresistible R&B rhythms, Longhair rhumbas, dancing-in-the-street second lines, jazzy soul-drenched horns, mind-melting swamp hoodoo, and feet-don t-fail-me-now Carnivale music, all performed by a band in a class all their own - five musicians with the experience and versatility rivaling any band that New Orleans has ever produced.
Condition:NEW. Marked upc
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 Get Back What You Given (5:02)
2 Cigarette Smile (5:51)
3 Magdalena (6:19)
4 Pocketful of Grits (5:41)
5 Soothe Me (4:50)
6 Things (In Your Mind) (5:35)
7 Hoodoos and Cunyans (5:56)
8 Carnivale (5:18)
9 Walk of Shame (3:44)
10 Yo Flambeaux! (4:57)
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