Roscoe Chenier - Roscoe Chenier / Roscoe Rocks

Album: Roscoe Chenier
Size: 117,2 MB
Time: 51:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1993
Styles: Blues Soul, Swamp Blues
Art: Full

01. Come On Home (3:53)
02. You Don't Understand (5:02)
03. Time Is Hard (6:51)
04. Just Because (7:28)
05. Home Wrecker (5:11)
06. Louisiana Shuffle (3:17)
07. Playing The Blues (3:57)
08. Find Me A New Love (4:24)
09. She Blows My Mind (5:07)
10. Losing The Only One You Love (5:52)

Although Roscoe Chenier's self-titled debut album came out on Avenue Jazz and ended up in some jazz bins, the fact is that this isn't a jazz release -- it's really a collection of electric blues, Fats Domino-influenced R&B, and classic '60s-type soul. The CD contains no jazz whatsoever, and it doesn't contain any zydeco either, despite the fact that the singer/guitarist is the second cousin of the late zydeco/blues great Clifton Chenier. But Roscoe Chenier doesn't need to embrace zydeco to make it clear that he's from Louisiana -- the bayou influence comes through whether he's providing 12-bar blues on "Home Wrecker," "Losing the Only One You Love," and "Come on Home," or getting into a classic soul sound on "Just Because" and "You Don't Understand." As good as the album is, it didn't make Chenier well-known. But Roscoe Chenier is worth picking up if you come across a copy. ~Review by Alex Henderson

Roscoe Chenier

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Album: Roscoe Rocks
Size: 101,6 MB
Time: 39:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Louisiana Blues, Swamp Blues
Label: Lake Charles Bayou Records
Art: Front

01. Hide and Seek (2:52)
02. Blindside (4:27)
03. Don't Miss Your Water (3:29)
04. Antifreeze (3:47)
05. Barefootin' (3:36)
06. Down in Tin Pan Alley (4:56)
07. Something You Got (3:02)
08. Women I can't Stand (3:33)
09. C.C. Rider (2:59)
10. Morning Train (3:41)
11. Welfare Women Blues (3:20)

Unquestionably Chenier's debut on the Lake Charles Bayou Records imprint ranks among the best of Opelousas bluesman's catalogue. -- Offbeat Magazine

Roscoe Rocks

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