The Wild Tchoupitoulas

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	Artist(s):	The Wild Tchoupitoulas
	Music by:	Fontana Island
	Sales Rank:	22006
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Product Details/Specifications

Recording label: Fontana Island
EAN: 0016253990821
Binding: Audio CD
Release Date: 1991-07-01
Universal product code (UPC): 016253990821
Number of discs: 1

Product Description
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Genre: World Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 2-OCT-1992

Amazon.com
Mardi Gras remains one of America's most other-worldly cultural riots, never more exotic than in the beaded, feathered spectacle of New Orleans' black "Indian" tribes. Each year they stir the city's African, Native American, and European influences into an intoxicating gumbo roiling with syncopated rhythms and coded with their own sense of the festival's competitive spirit. It's that tradition that explains this deliriously infectious 1976 project, which magnifies the Tchoupitoulas' fanny-shaking bravado with a formidable studio crew helmed by producer Allen Toussaint, who enlisted the Neville Brothers and the Meters to give these tracks a kinetic R&B push-and-pull. With the Nevilles' choral vocals fleshing out traditional chants, this is funky prancing of the highest order, from the infectious "Brother John" to a ripe remake of the Meters' "Hey Pocky A-Way." One need only hear the tough bragging of "Meet the Boys on the Battlefront," with its promise that "the Wild Tchoupitoulas gonna stomp some rump," to get the outrageous picture. --Sam Sutherland

Infectious
Review Date: 2010-01-10 Rating: 10 out of 10

When I wanted to give a unique example of American music to a foreign friend, this was one of the albums I bought. It should be in everyone's library. And it is a great gateway to New Orleans music. 'Nuff said.

Reviews

You Want To Get Your Party Started?
Review Date: 2009-09-13 Rating: 10 out of 10

Buy this. Not much more to say, other than it's a classic of New Orleans music with brilliant backing and singing from The Neville Brothers and The Meters, creative adaptations of (and new songs based on) classic Mardi Gras Indian chants, and the state of the second-line beat circa 1976 that'll get your hips swaying wherever you are. All it's missing is a video.

Didn't like it
Review Date: 2009-01-02 Rating: 2 out of 10

Not even a little bit. I found it mindless and juvenile.

Maybe it's because I haven't been to New Orleans.

Lightning Strikes!
Review Date: 2008-12-04 Rating: 10 out of 10

Every now and then the planets line up just right and we get a confluence of fragile artistic elements. This album is like that, a beautiful soap bubble that dazzled with the rainbow colors of the Tchoupitoulas' costumes, floated above the crowd, and burst, leaving the Neville Brothers band as the residue. The light touch of the arrangements, where spaces are as important as hits, provides the perfect setting for the happiest, huskiest harmonies. The rough-edged street singing of the Landrys is a perfect mix with the polished studio vocals of the Nevilles, who just happened to be related to the Landrys. This was a rare unrepeatable combination. Knowing that the lyrics are rooted in reality, the drinking and fighting tradition of the New Orleans Indians in which the Landrys participated, gives the whole thing an extra dose of credibility. It's not only one of the best albums to listen and dance to, it represents a unique burst of American culture, a lightning strike that could never be reconstructed. Let this album run in your car for a week and you'll know all the words and be singing with the Big Chief!

The Greatest Story Ever Told
Review Date: 2008-11-18 Rating: 10 out of 10

I mean it. I've been listening to this record since it originally came out on LP. Nothing better has come to my attention in the meantime. Listen.

Brand: WILD TCHOUPOTOULAS

Disc 1 Tracks:
1. Brother John
2. Meet the Boys on the Battlefront
3. Here Dey Come
4. Hey Pocky A-Way
5. Indian Red
6. Big Chief Got a Golden Crown
7. Hey Mama (Wild Tchoupitoulas)
8. Hey Hey (Indians Comin')

Publishers: Fontana Island