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OffBeat Magazine
The title of Corey Ledet’s 2004 debut
3 Years 2 Late was his way of saying it was already three years overdue when it finally hit the streets. Since then, Ledet has made up for lost time by releasing albums at a prolific rate every year or two. His 14th release finds him paying homage to his extended musical family who were steeped in traditional jazz and ragtime, among other genres.
“Buchanan Ledet Special” is perhaps this album’s most significant track, a salute to Grandfather Buchanan, who served as Clifton Chenier’s first zydeco drummer when launching his band in the late ’40s. Once zydeco’s founding father achieved success and was on the road more, Buchanan, the family man, opted out. Chenier instructed his replacement, Robert St. Julien, to play just like Buchanan, thus paying him the ultimate compliment. Ledet makes sure Buchanan’s role in zydeco is understood with a spoken-word intro.
Review: Pandemic can’s stop Corey Ledet zydeco soirée
Released Jan. 15, “Corey Ledet Zydeco” bounces from one end to the other like a backyard trampoline filled with happy children.
Shortly after Corey Ledet and his band had cut a rug to their triumphant new tune, “It’s Gonna Be Alright,” the rug they rely on was yanked from beneath their feet.
Ledet, a Grammy-nominated Zydeco singer, songwriter and squeeze box ace, tracked that song and six other beauties in June 2019 at the renowned Dockside Studios in the swamps of Maurice, Louisiana. “Corey Ledet Zydeco,” the artist’s 14
th album, was off to a rip-roaring start. Regrettably, the final session was quashed, the cayenne-sizzling band guitarist/singer Julian Primeaux, bassist Lee Allen Zeno, B3 player Cecil Green, harp man Grant Dermody and drummer and washboard wiz Gerard Delafose locked out by Covid. Undeterred, Ledet went back into the studio alone, recording the album’s final three songs without missi
The Vinyl District
January 14, 2021
Part two of the TVD Record Store Club’s look at the new and reissued releases presently in stores for January 2021. Part one is here.
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Catspaw (Omnivore) Sweet’s big splash was the 1991 LP
Girlfriend, though he’d been active for a good while prior, emerging from the Athens, GA scene with a sound that stood a bit apart from post-Byrdsian collegiate jangle. Instead, he’s generally categorized as a power-popper, but as the release of his 15th album
Catspaw makes clear, with multidecade longevity that’s somewhat unusual for the genre, partly as he’s occasionally branched out a bit, but more because his range of influence is wide and therefore fertile. These dozen tunes are noted as the first time Sweet had played everything on a record except drums- that’d be guitar, bass and vocals, lead and background, plus recording and mixing the set. The drums ae handled by frequent collaborator Ric Menck, he an Alternative-