Description
**THIS IS A VINYL LP**
Release Date: 2025
Label: FHQ Records
Track List
Side A
- So Damn Good
- Zulu Coconuts
- Fessa Longhair Boogaloo
- Uptown Downtown
- Bin a Lil’ Minit
Side B
- Just Kissed My Baby
- Boneyard
- Lottie Mo
- Pickle for a Tickle
- Unnecessarily Mercenary
Notes
…Take some Garlic and Onions, add some Congolese and Senegalese Africans, Spanish Cubans and Frenchmen, throw in Sicilians and a few Irish for good measure, smother the lot in Cayenne pepper, drown it in Louisiana hot sauce and let it bake in a malarial swamp for a couple of hundred years. Strain it, put it through a speaker… and that’s kinda what New Orleans sounds like.
Take a gang of the funkiest musicians in New Orleans, a bunch of good songs – old and new, play them with soul every night in sweaty saloons with condensation dripping down the walls and that’s kinda what this– our new record– sounds like.
Here, in this city, perhaps more than any other place I’ve ever been, the locals demand real music played real good. That’s what they want, so that’s what we give ‘em.
As soon as the studio was fixed, after the last hurricane blew through town, I assembled the whole Absolute Monster crew down at Funk Headquarters in the Bywater and we just did what we do the way we like to do and got it done. And now all you have to do is press the play button.
(By the way, should you make it down here to New Orleans you’re welcome to swing by, but, remember, please, just keep your hands off my Zulu Coconuts!)
Recorded at Funk Headquarters, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mixed by John Porter and Jon Cleary at The Old Brewery House, UK
Produced by Jon Cleary and John Porter
Engineered by Mike Dorsey
Executive Producer: Andrew Kelly
Thanks to Benjamin Woosley, Dante DePaoli and Bryce Young at Warm Audio, Jerry Zacarias at LP Percussion, Alan Palmer at Kawai, Robert Ochoa at Ernie Ball, Kevin Hewitt at GC Pro, Paul Kaufman at IK Multimedia and Simon Götz at HOFA Plugins.
Thanks to SWMBOAAT, Mike Paz, Rick Swig, Jeff Treffinger, Doug Brown, Roy Markey, Debs and Alex, Chickie Wah Wah, The Maple Leaf Bar, Rosie and Sean at The Bell and Jorrocks and Tracey Freeman.
This album is dedicated to Dangerous Don and Darling Tilly.
Management: Reed Watson / Well Kept Secret
US Booking: Michael Morris / Mint Talent Group
Overseas Booking: Katherine McVicker / Music Works International
New Orleans Booking: Michael Paz / The Paz Group
Jon Cleary: Piano, guitar, percussion, vocals
Cornell Williams: bass, guitar, vocals
A.J. Hall: Drums, vocals
Nigel Hall: Hammond organ, Rhodes piano, vocals
Pedro Segundo: percussion
Xavier Lynn: guitar
Aaron Narcisse: Tenor sax, alto sax
Charlie Halloran: Trombone
Jason Mingledorf: Baritone sax, Tenor sax
Harry Shearer: vocals on Uptown Downtown and Zulu Coconuts
All songs written and composed by Jon Cleary except:
“Boneyard”
Jon Cleary & John Johnson
“Fessa Longhair Boogaloo”
featuring an interpolation of “Junker’s Blues” by Jack Dupree
“Lottie Mo”
Lee Dorsey & Renald J Richard
Tune Kel Publishing (BMI)
“Just Kissed My Baby”
Leo Nocentelli, George Porter Jr, Joseph Modeliste & Arthur Neville
BMG Bumblebee & Bugaloo Music (BMI)
