{"id":14553,"date":"2013-08-28T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=14553"},"modified":"2013-08-28T12:16:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:16:55","slug":"midweek-music-break-big-bad-voodoo-daddy-going-back-to-new-orleans-and-mr-pinstripe-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/midweek-music-break-big-bad-voodoo-daddy-going-back-to-new-orleans-and-mr-pinstripe-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Music Break: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, “Going Back to New Orleans” and “Mr. Pinstripe Suit”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bib<\/a>Big Bad Voodoo Daddy<\/a> is unapologetically, unwinkingly retro<\/em>. Their high-energy music feels like it blends so many genres as to be unclassifiable, at least by me. Wikipedia takes the easy way out, dubbing them a “contemporary swing revival band.” They are that. But such a generic label covers a lot of territory, and BBVD (as they agreeably refer to themselves) are nothing if not specialists. Think high-energy Dixieland, tinged with rockabilly and big-band influences and presented with Cab Calloway-style showmanship, infectious Big Easy roadhouse chaos and Windy City Roaring ’20s radio broadcasts…<\/p>\n

(As with many bands who take on retro personas — say, Stray Cats — I like that these guys don’t take themselves seriously… but are not kidding around about the\u00a0music<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

They’ve got a new album out, an EP called\u00a0Rattle Them Bones<\/em>. One of the three bonus tracks on the digital version is this number, “Going Back to New Orleans,” shaded with Creole rhythms as well as their characteristic go-go-go energy. (That just happens to be the title of a 1990 album<\/a>\u00a0–although not a song — by blues pianist Champion Jack Dupree. Longtime readers of\u00a0RAMH<\/em> may recognize the feel of the lyrics from this post<\/a>, as translated on that song’s Wikipedia page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

[Below, click Play button to begin <\/em>Going Back to New Orleans. While audio is playing, volume control appears at left — a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 4:06 long.]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

[audio:goingbacktoneworleans_bbvd.mp3|titles=’Going Back to New Orleans’|artists=Big Bad Voodoo Daddy]<\/div>\n

[Lyrics<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

And here’s the entertaining video — apparently edited to induce seizures in the unwary — for “Mr. Pinstripe Suit,” from 1998’s\u00a0Americana Deluxe<\/em>:<\/p>\n