OccultHawk Reviews The Southern States

OccultHawk · 01-27-2019, 06:46 PM

Amédé Ardoin

A Creole and zydeco musical pioneer and a Cajun accordion virtuoso born in the late 19th Century.

Chilling beautiful music. The vocals are very closely tied to the sounds of Francophone west African music.

OccultHawk · 02-03-2019, 04:11 AM

Clifton Chenier

June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987

Place of Birth: Opelousas, Louisiana

AKA: The King of Zydeco

OccultHawk · 02-17-2019, 09:24 AM

Fats Domino

Whatever you might think today it was wild af

Drunk and new to integration, youth took to giant brawls at his concerts

He was an early force for everything we hold dear back in a time when weighing 200 lbs was considered outrageous

OccultHawk · 03-26-2019, 06:22 PM

Slim Harpo

Swamp blues musician born in 1924.

I'm a King Bee was originally a B-side released in 1957.

It was later covered by The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd around the same time. The Stones version came out a few months before Floyd’s.

Psy-Fi · 03-27-2019, 05:24 AM

^ The Stones also covered "Shake Your Hips" by Slim Harpo, on their "Exile on Main St." album.

And I'm pretty sure the title of their first live album, "Got Live If You Want It!" was derived from the song "I Got Love If You Want It" by Slim Harpo.

Here's an alternate take of "I Got Love If You Want It" by the man, himself...

OccultHawk · 03-27-2019, 05:37 AM

He’s got a really hypnotic voice and maintains the spell by keeping the instrumentation simple and minimalistic. On I’m a King Bee for the guitar solo he plays the same note three times and goes back to the verse. ****ing brilliant.

OccultHawk · 05-08-2019, 03:11 PM

Jimmie Davis

Here’s a bit of trivia: The guy who wrote You Are My Sunshine also served two terms, separated by more than a decade, as Governor of Louisiana. Even though he recorded with African American musicians he supported segregation as a politician. He wrote a graduate dissertation at LSU titled Comparative Intelligence of Whites, Blacks and Mulattoes but I can’t find the actual text. He lived for an entire century.

OccultHawk · 05-30-2019, 11:46 AM

It turns out The Residents are from Shreveport, Louisiana.

They’ve never really resonated with me and that makes them hard to write about in this context. Anybody wanna have a “good faith” discussion about this band?

OccultHawk · 06-08-2019, 09:18 AM

Nothing but goofy annoying cliches. I ****ing hate this band.

**Frownland** · 06-08-2019, 11:05 AM

What ****ing planet are you on where you can listen to Eskimo and call it cliche?

Not Available is a prog masterpiece, did you check that out yet? You'll probably still get annoyed by the vocals (which is what I think you're referring to with regards to cliche) but it's still worth a shot.

01-27-2019, 06:46 PM	#451 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Amédé Ardoin A Creole and zydeco musical pioneer and a Cajun accordion virtuoso born in the late 19th Century. Chilling beautiful music. The vocals are very closely tied to the sounds of Francophone west African music. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

02-03-2019, 04:11 AM	#452 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Clifton Chenier June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987 Place of Birth: Opelousas, Louisiana AKA: The King of Zydeco __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

02-17-2019, 09:24 AM	#453 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Fats Domino Whatever you might think today it was wild af Drunk and new to integration, youth took to giant brawls at his concerts He was an early force for everything we hold dear back in a time when weighing 200 lbs was considered outrageous __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

03-26-2019, 06:22 PM	#454 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Slim Harpo Swamp blues musician born in 1924. I'm a King Bee was originally a B-side released in 1957. It was later covered by The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd around the same time. The Stones version came out a few months before Floyd’s. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

03-27-2019, 05:37 AM	#456 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	He’s got a really hypnotic voice and maintains the spell by keeping the instrumentation simple and minimalistic. On I’m a King Bee for the guitar solo he plays the same note three times and goes back to the verse. ****ing brilliant. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

05-08-2019, 03:11 PM	#457 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Jimmie Davis Here’s a bit of trivia: The guy who wrote You Are My Sunshine also served two terms, separated by more than a decade, as Governor of Louisiana. Even though he recorded with African American musicians he supported segregation as a politician. He wrote a graduate dissertation at LSU titled Comparative Intelligence of Whites, Blacks and Mulattoes but I can’t find the actual text. He lived for an entire century. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

05-30-2019, 11:46 AM	#458 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	It turns out The Residents are from Shreveport, Louisiana. They’ve never really resonated with me and that makes them hard to write about in this context. Anybody wanna have a “good faith” discussion about this band? __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

06-08-2019, 09:18 AM	#459 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Nothing but goofy annoying cliches. I ****ing hate this band. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

06-08-2019, 11:05 AM	#460 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	What ***ing planet are you on where you can listen to Eskimo and call it cliche? Not Available is a prog masterpiece, did you check that out yet? You'll probably still get annoyed by the vocals (which is what I think you're referring to with regards to cliche) but it's still worth a shot. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x