Today’s Bonus Album of the Day is Boozoo Hoodoo! The Songs of Boozoo Chavis. This is a compilation of bands covering Boozoo Chavis’ songs and obviously a tribute to Boozoo Chavis. Boozoo Chavis was a Zydeco musician.
I love to dance to Zydeco, or at least I used to before I became chronically ill. I have many fond memories of the all night Zydeco tent at the Great Blue Heron Festival. But those days are long past and the truth is I don’t casually listen to Zydeco. Still nice to have some around though and this seems like a solid album. But with all that said, I am absolutely no expert when it comes to Zydeco. I barely know it. So take opinions herein with an even greater pinch of salt than usual.
And so I like this. I wish I could still dance to it. Hopefully yinz enjoy this compilation! I did.
Rating: 9.6
Favorite Track(s): To no surprise, Beausoleil does a good version of “Bye Bye Jole”. Marcia Ball does an excellent job with “Dance All Night” which is a great tune. Honestly it all sounds fine to me. Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys do a great job with “Uncle Bud”. As I said, it pretty much all sounds good.
Keep or Trash: Keep.
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: