Delicious Blues Stew
Fat Stewsday
© 2003 Delicious Blues Stew
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Delicious Blues Stew is an electic Bluesiana party band covering bayou blues styles such as Baton Rouge & New Orleans blues, zydeco, Cajun, second line and Mardi Gras music.
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Here's what Bayou of the Stew says about this CD:
The question has been asked, "Why rehash classic Mardi Gras tunes on a CD?" My answer is, "Our fans demanded it." We've played two weeks of packed-out Mardi Gras parties for seven years now, and for the first six, we kept hearing over and over, "When will y'all do a Mardi Gras record?" So now we have one. And I might add that it features our own stewed interpretations of the classics; "Mardi Gras Mambo," "Go to the Mardi Gras," "Carnival Time," and, my favorite, "Big Chief." Why is it my favorite? I guess cause Patio Daddio IS the Big Chief of Bourbon Street Blues & Boogie Bar Mardi Gras celebrations.
The record also has a distinctly live version of "Audubon Zoo" (They All Asked for You), featuring the crowd's attempts at animal noises. Another great thing about FAT STEWSDAY is that it has a version of a Stew classic "true story" from Phil Brady's bar, "Cal Daniels."
And, most importantly to me as a music fan, we succeeded in releasing a version of a Stew tour de force, the 13-minute jam band version of "Congo Square," featuring the outstanding percussion work of Tom Larson and Brannan Lane. I'm such a fan of that tune, originally written by Sonny Landreth, that I always request our band to play it at Mardi Gras. Thanks again to Patio, the tune has morphed into something distinctly different from other artists' versions. We, in fact, recorded two "Congo Squares," both live at Mardi Gras. We liked 'em so much, we almost put both of them on the record (Maybe the other version will show up on another record another time. Some of y'all hard core fans might like that.). The cut features the one-musical-moment-in-time attitude that we like to bring to live shows. You never know what each musician will play on our tune as they explore new ways to release the music. As the old felluhs at Tabby's Blues Box used to say, "It goes dat way, too!"
Speaking of that, we also recorded yet another version of "You Are My Sunshine," even though the song appears on our last disc, 2STEW. Why? Well, mainly this is a bawdier, wilder cup of sunshine, the way we perform it live. It goes dat way, too. So now you know why we did this record.
Stacy Smith Segovia of Clarksville's Leaf-Chronicle interviewed Shannon "Bayou" Williford, & wrote the following about the band:
A cadre of excellent musicians ensures that the Stew has talent and technical quality beneath the flair. Achord was named Blues Bass Player of the Year. Every other member of the band has won honors or has been nominated as well. Brannan Lane, among them, is an admired Clarksville musician who played for a dozen years with Skeeter Davis and is the author of several eclectic solo projects. The band plays mostly originals, but throws in stewed-up versions of time-honored classics as well.
"A Stew cover is not going to be like any version of the song you've ever heard before," Williford laughs. Along with great music, the Stew has stage gusto that makes devoted fans of many first-timers. "Not only are they good, they're entertaining," local club manager Jeff Heggie says. "They interact with the audience." Charisma is part of the Stew's philosophy.
"In Louisiana, the music is part of the people," Williford says. "There's not such a defined line between the band and the audience. It's important to make people feel I'm not here to see a show as much as I'm part of the party." The Stew has that dynamic down to slip-and-slide science, with musicians wandering through the audience, occasionally using what may have been your table or chair as a percussion instrument.
Despite its near-constant gig schedule, Williford jokes about the band's lack of teen-market sex appeal. "I wish we weren't so fat and bald and ugly," he says. "If we were 21 and pretty, we'd make a bazillion dollars." The comment is all the funnier coming from Williford. OK, so the Stew isn't going to be the next boy band, but Williford, who is probably 40, has the energy of any 20-year-old, plus beautiful eyes that will blaze right through you. The Stew is just about as hot as you can take it.
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