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HarveyCanal
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about my avatar.Big Chief Kevin Goodman:
I get to go see him with his band tonight at Red Eyed Fly in Austin. He's supposed to have members of the longstanding New Orleans-based Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indians along with him. I caught them on New Year's Eve as part of Austin's First Night festivities. It really took me back. They did killer funk renditions of Professor Longhair's Big Chief, the Dixie Cups' Iko Iko, Wild Tchoupitoulas' Meet de Boys on the Battlefront, and the Meters' They All Asked for You. Big Chief Kevin was talking big about getting Mardi Gras started for real here in Austin. Such has been one of the fortunate by-products of the hurricane/flood and planned/forced displacement of New Orleans' core population: Austin taking on a bit more of NOLA culture. Along with Cyril Neville and the Hot-8 Brass Band, we can now add an actual Mardi Gras Indian troupe (which is currently taking on new members) to our formerly skinny NOLA cache of Gene's and this:
I get to go see him with his band tonight at Red Eyed Fly in Austin. He's supposed to have members of the longstanding New Orleans-based Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indians along with him. I caught them on New Year's Eve as part of Austin's First Night festivities. It really took me back. They did killer funk renditions of Professor Longhair's Big Chief, the Dixie Cups' Iko Iko, Wild Tchoupitoulas' Meet de Boys on the Battlefront, and the Meters' They All Asked for You. Big Chief Kevin was talking big about getting Mardi Gras started for real here in Austin. Such has been one of the fortunate by-products of the hurricane/flood and planned/forced displacement of New Orleans' core population: Austin taking on a bit more of NOLA culture. Along with Cyril Neville and the Hot-8 Brass Band, we can now add an actual Mardi Gras Indian troupe (which is currently taking on new members) to our formerly skinny NOLA cache of Gene's and this:
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Welcome back, Mr. Regginelli.
Dude, how could
Come from anyone else??
Welcome back!
*I want that on a tee shirt
but we still love NOLA women and their gold fronts.
And for good measure:
dj silver
Deauchamps(sp?) productions
Hot Boy Ronald
JMK
PNC
how's the fam-a-lam?
She has a knack for stopping records and starting them back up again on beat.
She also loves to slap the skin of her djembe drum.
Next up, we break out the kalimba for her.
She did sleep through the Big Chief Kevin show on New Year's Eve, but she woke up just in time for the champagne and fireworks on the South 1st Street Bridge at midnight.
She's not quite walking yet, but soon come.
I play this track to my 6 1/2 month old son almost every day, he laughs out loud.
Just sayin'