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Danko and Butterfield definitely seemed like throwbacks, but as much to the Old West as to the Late Sixties. I felt like I was sitting round the campfire listening to a couple of ex-hippy pioneers who got the blues during New Orleans' Mardi-Gras--and stayed drunk ever since. They played blues standards like "Spoonful" and soul hits like Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools." But their rendition of the Band's "The Sun Don't Shine" reminded me where all this was coming from...
...choice, a classic film about the groovy days of the late 60s and early 70s. Easy Rider tells the story of two long-haired hippie weirdos, Captain America and Billy (Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper), who raise money from a cocaine deal and travel across the country to see Mardi Gras. On their way, they encounter loads of interesting people: a bunch of city kids living communally on an Indian reservation, outraged and fearful hicks, a drunken lawyer who believes in UFOs and two maternal whores who can't handle their peyote...
...Religion seminar with God, so I had to take a Physics course with some Nobel Laureate guy named Rubbia. The material wasn't so bad, but he held two classes in the middle of reading period and assigned a 10-page paper due right in the middle of Mardi Gras...
...NEVILLE BROTHERS: Treacherous. (Rhino) These four, New Orleans funk masters to the manner born, are heirs to the proud Byrd tradition. This two- record set covers 30 years of their music, starting with a rough-and-ready Mardi Gras Mambo (released in 1955) and ending with a spirited spiritual recessional recorded in the spring of 1985. New Orleans produced many superb musicians and singers, but the Nevilles are the town's premier vocal ensemble. A single cut, Fire on the Bayou, is like a dancing flame on an oil slick. It produces enough heat to warm a mountain cabin...
...whether y'all make it down to the bayous for Mardi Gras or wait until Spring Break, y'all are guaranteed a taste of the Old South and a shot...