The Lil Band O Gold -- The Factory By Amanda on October 10, 2010 5:53 PM | Permalink
Well after whinging about Lil Band O Gold not coming to Sydney when they were down here for Byron this year, I can say it was worth the wait. It's been a most exceptional year for me and New Orleans/Louisiana music, what with a sterling Dr John and every episode of Treme filling my head with evermore delicious sounds. (and Mary Gauthier and Chris Smither - who I saw three times at the Blue Mountains Music Fest but never blogged about FOR SHAME are from New Orleans too even if not working in one of the city's signature genres) And now Lil Band O Gold who put on a hell of a show at The Factory the other night. I've added this swamp pop book to my Book Depository wishlist.
Cajun accordion king Steve Riley despite being advertised wasn't with them (the Mamou Playboys seems to be on tour in Texas) but most of the rest of the line up were, augmented by our semi-own Lucky Oceans on pedal steel. The band is not called a Louisiana super group for nothing, Warren Storm, CC Adcock, David Egan, Dave Ransom, Dickie Landry and Pat Breaux (his grandfather Amedee Breaux is credited for the first recorded version of "Jolie Blon" -- free and legal download here.)
I can't help but digress at this point with this from a NZ interview with Adcock:
But I gotta tell you, the best one - the best one for me, and there have been several moments where I have just felt blessed,, but the best one was when we were doing some work on the Fats Domino Tribute and we're recording with Robert Plant. This is just a great scene already, right, and then Warren - he has no real idea who Robert is and he just keeps callin' 'im 'Fred' all day. All through the session he's telling 'Fred' that he's doin' a good job. So I end up taking him aside and tellin' him, 'Warren, this is Robert Plant, you know from Led Zeppelin, the guy's a rock god', cos, you know, frankly this was all gettin' a little embarrassin' and then I hear Warren saying to him 'thank you for the session Mr Robert Plank!'
Here are two vids I took, both tending towards the ballad but of course the show was high on Louisiana barn burning dance numbers. The beginning of the second is dodgy but I didn't edit out the start of the clip because there's a great moment where some women in the crowd are chanting "Wazza. Wazza" for Warren Storm (this was as they came back out for the encore) and Lucky Oceans translated for CC Adcock, "Wazza is Australian for Warren."
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