Word: zydeco
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...DIED. CALVIN CARRIERE, 80, renowned fiddler and zydeco music pioneer, regarded by many as one of the last links to French-Creole musical traditions; in Opelousas, Louisiana. Carriere's most recent recording was Les miseres dans le coeur (The Misery Direct from the Heart) in 2000. He was scheduled to perform in the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival this April...
DIED. BOOZOO CHAVIS, 70, Louisiana-born King of Zydeco who helped popularize the genre with his 1954 Paper in My Shoe; in Austin, Texas. He packed dance halls with his rhythmic sounds till the late '50s when he began a long hiatus. But upon hearing about an impersonator in 1984, he returned to launch a renaissance of button-accordion zydeco...
...they provide showcases for the guitarist's highly evolved style. The lyrics reveal Landreth's deep preoccupation with his Louisiana heritage, and most of the songs revolve around a kind of Cajun mythology, with an occasionally felicitous turn of phrase like "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"; musically, Landreth filters the zydeco and Crescent City traditions through a more modern roots-rock lens. But the blues is never too far away, notably on "Broken Hearted Road," and if the neo-Southern Gothic lyric stylings sometimes overreach, they rarely drop the ball altogether, and all it takes is a quick blast like the sizzling...
...holds together if you don't pay attention to the lyrics. Unfortunately, Knopfler seems to have lost the ability to choose exactly the right words for a situation that he displayed so brilliantly in that other Straits staple "Romeo and Juliet." "Who's Your Baby Now" hints at the zydeco-tinged strains of Straits standards like "Walk of Life" without any of the latter's grip. The album benefits from Knopfler's breezy guitar licks, especially in "What It Is," but the whole effect comes across as something better suited to a National Public Radio road show than...
...line on the trombone. Entrain doesn't have that much of a reggae sound, except for some pseudo-Rastafarian moments (like their recent album title All is One) and their apparent preference for similar chemicals. Any group that bills itself as a combination of "Rock, Blues, Ska, Calypso, Dub, Zydeco, World and Jazz" tends to not be very good in any of these, and Entrain predictably was no exception...