DENNIS CAVALIER: Blue Orleans

Dennis Cavalier

Blue Orleans

© 2000 Dennis Cavalier (750458353271)

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MUSIC FOR HOMESICK NEW ORLEANIANS FROM A NEW ORLEANS NATIVE. PIANO & VOCALS

tracks

1 More Blues
2 Taxi Driver
3 All I Can Do Is Cry
4 Springtime in Mississippi
5 Fess It Up
6 Lonely Is My Name
7 Dig a Hole
8 Thibodaux
9 Music's My Wife
10 Can't Get It Right
11 Louisiana My Home
12 Troubled Heart

notes

Dennis Cavalier was born May 19, 1951 and raised in the 9th ward of New Orleans around France and Claiborne streets. It is an intensely musical neighborhood. The same neighborhood where Fats Domino, Jesse Hill, Oliver Morgan and the Lastie Family where raised. He was greatly influenced by piano giants Professor Longhair, Dr. John and Fats Domino.
In the early 70's Dennis started playing piano with
Walter "Wolfman" Washington. He's also played and/or recorded with Gary B.B. Coleman, Delbert McClinton, Guitar Slim Jr., Johnny Adams, Wayne Bennet, Nappy Brown, Mighty Sam McClain, The Platters, The Drifters, The Coasters, Etta James and Doug Kershaw. He has opened shows for Irma Thomas, The Funky Meters, Wayne Toups, Chubby Carrier, Chris Ardoin, Geno DeLafose and Bruce Daigrepoint.
As a songwriter Dennis has more than 30 songs published
in Nashville, New York and L.A. His song "All Night Long" went to #40 in Billboard Magazine in 1981.

"This collection of songs was inspired by the sights and sounds of my childhood which took place in the 9th ward of New Orleans. Impressions taken from the ryhthm of the streets and the soul of the people. Thanks to all."

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  • A hit in the genre
    author: Ruud Heijjer-Dutch music magazine Heaven

    Cavalier has a solid left hand and an independently operating, swinging right one, but his virtuosity only dominates in the solos. At the center are his lyrics, that make real songs out of his music once again. That goes for that funny story about how he wanted to play jazz and pop, while the listeners shouted for Fess’s Tipitina and Big Chief. In Troubled Heart he sings with just as much self-evident irony about having success but being unhappy. He also is a man who took revenge for his raped wife and ended up in Angola State Prison for it in hurried Thibodaux. His childhood memories of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward in Taxi Driver become poignant, because particularly this poor area was completely devastated by hurricane Katrina. This way he turns piano pieces into real songs, a talent not handed out to many piano players. Also because of his efficient yet rich playing in rhythm ‘n’ blues, funk, stride piano and ballads, that results in homesickness, and not just with him.

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