Premiere: Jeremy Joyce releases his first Mardi Gras single Friday
On Friday, January 29, 2021, New Orleans songwriter and performer Jeremy Joyce will release his first Mardi Gras single, “Come Back to New Orleans (Celebrate the Mardi Gras),” on all major digital/streaming platforms. Produced by Mike Harvey (Hot 8 Brass Band, The Wild Magnolias, Samantha Fish), this Mardi Gras anthem has its left foot planted in ‘50s R&B and its right foot dancing in outer space.
“You can break all the musical rules in New Orleans,” says Joyce. “No one looks at you sideways if you are writing out of four or five different traditions,” he says. Indeed, one glance at the songs sung or written by Allen Toussaint and Dr. John provides ready evidence of the Crescent City’s long obsession with mixing musical traditions. New Orleans couldn’t offer a more appropriate musical backdrop for Joyce, whose genre-defying songs are born out of a macro-level interest in music history and a micro-level interest in what makes songs tick.