1. Y'all'd Think She'd Be Good 2 Me
2. Stealin' All Day
3. All 4 the Betta
4. Blaksnak Bite
5. Runaway Life
6. Loaded Gun
7. Love N' Gold
8. Slangshotz N'Boom-R-Angz
9. I L*ve You - C.C. Adcock, Anderson, Elton
10. Between the Lies
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Slim Harpo, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Tony Joe White … one can't help but flash on those illustrious practitioners of swamp music, be it blues, rock, or pop, when listening to CC Adcock's latest effort. As with all of the above, Layayette, Louisiana's Adcock makes music that's dense, damp, and malodorous as a Baton Rouge bog. What's so welcome about Lafayette Marquis it that it arrives decades after the heyday of the Excello sound and the rock & roll offspring it inspired, and long after the genre needed a shot in the arm. From the rhythmic opener "Y'all'd Think She'd Be Good 2 Me" through the voodoo creep "Slanoshotz N' Boom-R-Angz" and the gently rolling closer "Between the Lies," Adcock is at home with swamp sounds as a bayou trapper. It helps that he has the connections and inclination to enlist a few savvy vets to help out, including the late producer Jack Nitzsche (the reverberating "Stealin' All Day" is the last track he helmed), but it's pretty clear that Adcock is right at home with these grooves. --Steven Stolder
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Lafayette Marquis
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2004-10-05)
- Publisher: Yep Roc Records
- Label: Yep Roc Records
- Studio: Yep Roc Records
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 9 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #65202
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Lafayette Marquis Album Review 2007-01-04
Comment: Impossible to stand still when you listen to this album. Energy, virtuosity, rich musical complexity and depth. A bravura performance!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Can't go long without listening to this CD 2006-10-09
Comment: A CD has not rocked like this in a loooong time. Track 1 "Y'all'd Think She'd Be Good 2 Me" alone is going to force you to move. Nothing here disappoints. Get it now.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: The most sophisticated 'swamp music' ever made 2006-09-21
Comment: This CD smokes. It's got a lewd, hip-shaking boogie-beat, atmosphere thicker than Louisiana fog, production that emphasizes the beat, molasses-thick lyrics that don't aspire to profundity --- yeah, "Lafayette Marquis" is the good times music you've been looking for. The late-night alternative to Bryan Ferry or Barry White. The worthy successor to Dr. John, Z.Z. Top and John Fogarty.
C.C. Adcock hails --- that's the word for guys like this --- from Lafayette, Louisiana. That's Cajun country, west of Baton Rouge. Average rainfall: 61 inches a year. On rainy days in his childhood, little Charlie Adcock learned to play guitar. By 14, he had a band --- Boogie Chillun' --- that he remembers as "a rhythm and blues Menudo." He played with Bo Diddley and toured with Buckwheat Zydeco. Good connections got him a record deal, and a much-praised first CD.
A decade passed, and now we have "Lafayette Marquis." Well, he is a nobleman --- at least in his clothes. He likes custom-made suits and expensive shoes (the reptilian pattern on the CD cover is from his boots). But when he talks about his songs, he's no gent. One song, for him, is "a score to a cock-fighting scene --- it's about a couple of oilfield, renegade, ruffneck podnuhs of mine."
How fun a guy is C.C. Adcock? Listen to him talk about his home town: "On any given night, you can start out in the country with some food, drop in to a Cajun dance hall and watch the old folks glidin' round the floor, then put the top down and jump back into town and rock around to the new sounds of some up-and-coming-cats. Then, you can cross the tracks and bump at a Zydeco disco, have a few Crown & Sevens and -- at the end of the night -- head south to another Parish where they stay open all night, and you can boogie `til daybreak in front of a classic swamp-pop jukebox and still make it home in time for Mass. And that's not even a fairy tale night."
This CD is like the souvenir of such a night. A monster of a car --- an old Mercury with a sleek V-8 under the hood. A VFW hall you almost can't see through the foggy night. Women in cotton dresses, men in jeans. Beer in bottles. And on stage, a powerhouse band, playing tight songs about loose females. A crazy fiddler gives the boogie some Cajun twang. The drum sounds hollow as a barrel. The bass player drives the beat like a steam engine. And above it, C.C. sings lyrics that are family-friendly only because they're too slurred to hear.
Get the party started.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: ENUFF SAID (not!) 2006-02-07
Comment: THIS YOUNG MAN IS BAD AZZZ
shades of coco robicheaux, dr john, anders osborne, early dr john etc
some swamp rock for yo'azz
good stuff!
listen and then listen again!
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Summary: If this music was any hotter, it would explode 2005-09-13
Comment: Heard Y'all'd Think She'd Be Good 2 Me on sirius blues 29, and it blues me away!! Went out and bought the CD right then, and haven't been so happy in years. Fabulous, funky, scary guitars, vocals and 'haunt you all night' rhythms add up to the best new sound I have every heard. Be believing it, I am out there buying every bit of music this man every touched!!
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