Another NOLA Note
Posted by TFG on May 20th, 2005
Just dug this CD out of the suitcase, and I remembered how bloody happy I was to hear some honest zydeco on Bourbon St. Most of what you get down there is hideous cover bands playing for frat boys and over-the-hill dorks (not that there’s anything wrong with that, just not my scene if I can avoid it). But Sunday night, at 11PM, I happened to wander into Papa Joe’s and got religion all over again. Jimmy Thibodeaux and band were burning a few hours playing, and I couldn’t have been happier. I spent the rest of the night rooted there, until my peeps had had enough (freaking NOLA first-timer Journey lovers) and dynamited my humogous arse out of there, and we wandered down to the Old Absinthe House.
Sorry for the digression. Point being, Jimmy and Co. play Papa Joe’s Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights. If you want some racous, hell raisin’, coon-ass zydeco, go see ‘em. Order their CD, too. It’s right this minute washing the taste of just thinking about idiot Cowboy Rap out of my head. All I have to do is think of this teeny little sprig of a gal bouncing off the ceiling playing the rub-board and I get a ginormous grin:
I ♥LOVE♥ that kind of raw music, especially when they’ve played it a million times, and can still get all fired up about it. I can’t believe I found it on the commercial ass-whip of Bourbon, either. A fine cigar, the Old Absinthe, and now Jimmy Thibodeaux — I might have to change my opinion of that drag.
May 21st, 2005 at 1:02 am
can you get these guys to play at yer festival?
http://amishoutlaws.com/
May 21st, 2005 at 9:09 pm
Jimmy rules. Last time I saw him, he had this amazing rubboard player sitting in with the band — about 16, no doubt on some sort of illegal substance, and he owned the instrument.
May 22nd, 2005 at 12:15 am
I could never stand zydeco until I went to New Orleans. It was playing all over the place and it just sounded right there. Now I hear it, it reminds me of New Orleans. Sniff… I wanna go back…
May 24th, 2005 at 9:30 am
Hell, I’d [i] rub here board[/i] too!
August 4th, 2005 at 7:46 pm
Just wanted to say thanks to the Fat guys for the nice words.we love to play and playing is what we do best.Party,party.
Let the good times roll.Thanks again.
August 31st, 2005 at 10:04 pm
[...] Me, I’m sitting here loading up all my damn Cajun music into iTunes*, in honor of the Big NO. Here’s who I gots so far: Boozoo Chavis Clifton Chenier Buckwheat Zydeco Beau Jocque Jimmy Thibodeaux (we last ran into Jimmy on these pages here…) [...]
September 20th, 2005 at 4:16 pm
Jimmy & the boys are the best!! The best to them all as they recover from Katrina. If you want good rockin’ Zydeco, Jimmy’s your man!