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...Jumbalay', Crawfish Etouffe, Boudin, Red Beans and Rice, Pee-cohn Pie (wid plenny o'shoo-gar!), Shrimp Po' Boys, Dixie Beer, Catfish, Dirty Rice, Snappy-Gator Tail with Jolie Blon Beer, Potato Pirogue, Tasso, Pralines, and ol' Zydeco records. You know dee ones - Clifton Chenier. Zachary Richard. Rockin' Dopsie. All dem people...
...LATEST LIVE RELEASE, I Hear You Rockin,' British rocker Dave Edmunds performs an almost unimaginable feat. Here, the former member of Rockpile gets away with covering both Elvises, Presley and Costello, on the same side of the same album. Rather than taking the advice of another famous rocker, whose trademark is "Cover me," Edmunds has here adopted as his motto, "Cover everyone...
...Columbia has released Rockin', in an effort not only to sum up all these facets of Edmunds' career, but to do so with a "live" recording, a la Bruce Springsteen, Edmunds' labelmate and fellow retro-rocker. Of course, since Edmunds is a lesser star, Columbia has allotted him only one disc instead of five to encapsulate his long career, but surely the idea is the same...
Amazingly, Rockin' does seem to contain most of the essential (and extremely danceable) Edmunds canon, from his first hit, "I Hear You Knocking"--hence the clever album title--to his hits with Rockpile (his acclaimed 1980 collaboration with Lowe) to his synthesizer era. As a result, there are few surprises on this album, in terms of its choice of songs and their journeyman renditions...
...Rockin', Edmunds does occasionally rev up his normally idling throttle with ferocious treatments of Parker's "Crawling From the Wreckage," Lowe's "I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll)," and his own chestnut, "Ju Ju Man," all of which outstrip the originals. And even those fans accustomed to Edmunds' proclivity for non-originals will be pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of Juice Newton's "Queen of Hearts" and Dion and the Belmonts' "The Wanderer." With these songs and others, I Hear You Rockin' shows that you can judge a rocker by his covers...