Ignore Louie Louie's review
W. N. Dotson | Pensacola, FL | 03/21/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Having had the privelege of attending a Boozoo Chavis concert in Los Angelehell around 1988-89, thanks to Chuck Taggart of KCRW, where my late Angel-Bride Margie and I (both of us totally blind) were both loving embraced by the Louisianians at the Catholic high school hosting this food and music frolic, this is the first album I'm going to buy... It was Boozoo's beginning, where the more polished sounds and all the redone recordings of this period sprang from... To call this weird because of the recording quality, or more overt rock-a-billy, blues, country, and Cajun influences are so clearly evident is like trashing Elvis' early Sun recordings, or the "Million Dollar Quartette" where so much of his, Jerry Lee's and Carl Perkins musical influences are evidenced. It's like trashing the Beatles Star Club recordings for their rawness in performance and audio quality. Educational and honest unpolished and perhaps even characterizable as primitive--yes, weird, non-sense!"