C.C. Adcock - Lafayette Marquis
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Artist: C.C. AdcockEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Music Label: Yep Roc Records
Soundtracks:
- Y'all'd Think She'd Be Good 2 Me
- Stealin' All Day
- All 4 The Betta
- Blaksnak Bite
- Runaway Life
- Loaded Gun
- Love N' Gold
- Slangshotz N' Boom-R-Angz
- I Love You
- Between The Lies
Free Music Notes for Lafayette Marquis
Free Music Review: The most sophisticated 'swamp music' ever made
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD smokes. It's got a lewd, hip-shaking boogie-beat, atmosphere thicker than Louisiana fog, production that emphasizes the beat, molasses-thick lyrics that don't aspire to profundity --- yeah, "Lafayette Marquis" is the good times music you've been looking for. The late-night alternative to Bryan Ferry or Barry White. The worthy successor to Dr. John, Z.Z. Top and John Fogarty.
C.C. Adcock hails --- that's the word for guys like this --- from Lafayette, Louisiana. That's Cajun country, west of Baton Rouge. Average rainfall: 61 inches a year. On rainy days in his childhood, little Charlie Adcock learned to play guitar. By 14, he had a band --- Boogie Chillun' --- that he remembers as "a rhythm and blues Menudo." He played with Bo Diddley and toured with Buckwheat Zydeco. Good connections got him a record deal, and a much-praised first CD.
A decade passed, and now we have "Lafayette Marquis." Well, he is a nobleman --- at least in his clothes. He likes custom-made suits and expensive shoes (the reptilian pattern on the CD cover is from his boots). But when he talks about his songs, he's no gent. One song, for him, is "a score to a cock-fighting scene --- it's about a couple of oilfield, renegade, ruffneck podnuhs of mine."
How fun a guy is C.C. Adcock? Listen to him talk about his home town: "On any given night, you can start out in the country with some food, drop in to a Cajun dance hall and watch the old folks glidin' round the floor, then put the top down and jump back into town and rock around to the new sounds of some up-and-coming-cats. Then, you can cross the tracks and bump at a Zydeco disco, have a few Crown & Sevens and -- at the end of the night -- head south to another Parish where they stay open all night, and you can boogie `til daybreak in front of a classic swamp-pop jukebox and still make it home in time for Mass. And that's not even a fairy tale night."
This CD is like the souvenir of such a night. A monster of a car --- an old Mercury with a sleek V-8 under the hood. A VFW hall you almost can't see through the foggy night. Women in cotton dresses, men in jeans. Beer in bottles. And on stage, a powerhouse band, playing tight songs about loose females. A crazy fiddler gives the boogie some Cajun twang. The drum sounds hollow as a barrel. The bass player drives the beat like a steam engine. And above it, C.C. sings lyrics that are family-friendly only because they're too slurred to hear.
Get the party started.
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