Time: 46:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Blues Reggae
Art: Full
01. Bloodstains And Teardrops (4:17)
02. Should've Been A Preacher Man (4:53)
03. Mr. Okra Man (4:24)
04. Choo Choo (4:19)
05. Kick Me Down (3:39)
06. Blues, Blues, Blues (4:41)
07. Kingston Blues (6:26)
08. On Bended Knees (3:10)
09. Blue Mountains (4:01)
10. Indian Blues (6:27)
Personnel:
Joseph 'Monk: Boudreaux - Vocals & Tamborine
Tab Benoit: Guitar, Drums, Keyboards
Damon Fowler: Guitar
Eric Johanson: Guitar
Jason 'Welsh Bass' Welsh: Bass
Corey Duplechin: Bass
Michael Doucet: Fiddle & Guitar
Johnny Sansone: Harmonica, Accordion & Guitar
Ali Meek: Backup Vocals
Wayne 'Unga Barunga' Thompson: Drums
The boundaries of world music are as limitless as the internet. Culture cross-pollination has brought to life a musical Frankenstein -strong but sometimes confused. This extraordinaryrecording session bringing Big Chief Monk Boudreaux to Kingston Jamaica, shows nomonsters created from the parts found. The session shows more of a dream representativeof a lifetime living in spirit, despair, celebration, depth of heart and guardianship.
Big Chief (Joseph) Monk Boudreaux’s long and deep roots run from his Cherokee Indian grandfather and his Haitian grandmother. Monk’s first tambourine was made from sticksand bottle caps. He would eventually go on to be a founding member of the legendary Golden Eagles tribe and is now the oldest living Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans. Monk belongs to a discipline that few of us ever could -a spiritual human grounded to this earth. A guiding force that seems as though he has always been hereand always will be.
In this recording, Big Chief wears the clothing and walks in the shoes of the people from his long and sometimes troubled life. He sings about hope, love and understanding. His voice, words and presence translate a language that speaks for itself -the music of the world.
Louisiana and Jamaica have always been hotbeds of music and culture, and they share many things in common such as: once British ruled, sugar cane production, parish divide and ofcourse, music. It is said that early Ska was created by the sound of radio waves of earlyrock-and-roll broadcasts out of New Orleans. Bouncing in transmission across the sea, the sounds became delayed and backward with an upbeat instead of a down-beat ast hey came out of transistor radios in Kingston. Others say it was the early R&B andr ock-and-roll of New Orleans musical pioneers Fats Domino and Louis Jordan being mixed in with Calypso and Mento music on American military broadcasts.
This project originated in Kingston was recorded at Tad’s International Limited with the great Jamaican studio musicians and returned to Louisiana to find its way into the good hands of Tab Benoit and members to be mixed with the Blues, Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp music indigenous to South Louisiana.
In the same way, it crossed the ocean in the late 1940s, it’s alive and happening all over again. ~Johnny Sansone
Joseph 'Monk: Boudreaux - Vocals & Tamborine
Tab Benoit: Guitar, Drums, Keyboards
Damon Fowler: Guitar
Eric Johanson: Guitar
Jason 'Welsh Bass' Welsh: Bass
Corey Duplechin: Bass
Michael Doucet: Fiddle & Guitar
Johnny Sansone: Harmonica, Accordion & Guitar
Ali Meek: Backup Vocals
Wayne 'Unga Barunga' Thompson: Drums
The boundaries of world music are as limitless as the internet. Culture cross-pollination has brought to life a musical Frankenstein -strong but sometimes confused. This extraordinaryrecording session bringing Big Chief Monk Boudreaux to Kingston Jamaica, shows nomonsters created from the parts found. The session shows more of a dream representativeof a lifetime living in spirit, despair, celebration, depth of heart and guardianship.
Big Chief (Joseph) Monk Boudreaux’s long and deep roots run from his Cherokee Indian grandfather and his Haitian grandmother. Monk’s first tambourine was made from sticksand bottle caps. He would eventually go on to be a founding member of the legendary Golden Eagles tribe and is now the oldest living Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans. Monk belongs to a discipline that few of us ever could -a spiritual human grounded to this earth. A guiding force that seems as though he has always been hereand always will be.
In this recording, Big Chief wears the clothing and walks in the shoes of the people from his long and sometimes troubled life. He sings about hope, love and understanding. His voice, words and presence translate a language that speaks for itself -the music of the world.
Louisiana and Jamaica have always been hotbeds of music and culture, and they share many things in common such as: once British ruled, sugar cane production, parish divide and ofcourse, music. It is said that early Ska was created by the sound of radio waves of earlyrock-and-roll broadcasts out of New Orleans. Bouncing in transmission across the sea, the sounds became delayed and backward with an upbeat instead of a down-beat ast hey came out of transistor radios in Kingston. Others say it was the early R&B andr ock-and-roll of New Orleans musical pioneers Fats Domino and Louis Jordan being mixed in with Calypso and Mento music on American military broadcasts.
This project originated in Kingston was recorded at Tad’s International Limited with the great Jamaican studio musicians and returned to Louisiana to find its way into the good hands of Tab Benoit and members to be mixed with the Blues, Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp music indigenous to South Louisiana.
In the same way, it crossed the ocean in the late 1940s, it’s alive and happening all over again. ~Johnny Sansone
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