1. Y’All’d Think She'd Be Good 2 Me
2. Stealin’ All Day
3. All 4 The Betta
4. Blaksnak Bite
5. Runaway Life
6. Loaded Gun
7. Love N’ Gold
8. Slangshotz N’ Boom-R-Angz
9. I Love You
10. Between The Lies
11. hidden track
Total time: 50 minutes
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Lafayette Marquis
C.C. Adcock
Yep Roc
There’ve been a handful of excellent albums lately that took several years to realize: Dan Hicks’ “Selected Shorts” (30 years); Planet P Project’s “1931” (10 years); and this one by blues-rock-zydeco guitarist/singer/songwriter Adcock (also 10 years).
Adcock bailed out of Louisiana for Hollywood right after high school, finding work as a sideman for Bo Diddley and Buckwheat Zydeco before realizing he needed to be back in Louisiana if he was going to make his own music.
After being signed to Island Records by famed producer and label entrepreneur Denny Cordell, he released his debut “House Rocker” in 1994 to wide acclaim. But Cordell unexpectedly died before the follow-up could be finished, and eventually Island let Adcock go. Then, no less a legend than Jack Nitzsche stepped in to offer his services, but he died in 2000 after finishing only a few songs.
Frustrated, Adcock left it alone awhile, recording occasionally with whomever he might be hanging with. In due course, he realized he had accumulated collaborations to the point they needed to be cleaned out. Some were finished, others had to be completely reworked from scratch and a few even were spliced together and/or superimposed on one another, creating a fresh whole greater than the sum of its parts.
In the end, slide guitar, standup bass, saxophone, accordion, fiddle and bass harmonica figured into the mix; Nitzsche’s spirit lived on in the arrangements; and a disparate collection of tunes became a spicy musical gumbo called “Lafayette Marquis.”
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