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| Boudreaux
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| Circle
Bar - New Orleans |
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| Covington
Block Party!!! - Sorellis' Patio |
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| Balcony
Music Club - New Orleans |
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| Neutral
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Room - Acoustic Night |
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| Circle
Bar - New Orleans |
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| Bastille
Day Celebration - Covington |
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| Mandeville
Seafood FEST 2010 |
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| Birdies
Roadhouse |
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| Ponchatoula
Strawberry FEST 2010 |
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| Amite
Oyster Festival - 2010 |
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Album Louisiana Crude Out Now! From folksy, acoustic blues to wash board grit, Louisiana Crude is a tribute to southern back yards, bars, ditches, and bathroom walls.
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| Bio: {click here for printable bio} Lyrically driven acoustic and electric blues, Abita Blues pays tribute to southern bars, ditches, and bathroom walls. Their debut album, Louisiana Crude is a dirty blues portrait of down and out characters, late night odysseys, and Louisiana Crude, in every sense of the word. These songs are infused with elements from north and south of Lake Pontchartrain. "There are not a lot of artists speaking to the beauty of growing up on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. We grew up here in the 70's. It was an adventure." Indeed, the local landscape takes center stage in songs like The Heron Song, Bayou Born, and All Kinds of Crazy - dirty blues tributes to the shallow creeks of Old Mandeville. "We practically lived in the creeks running off the lake. How could it not come out in our music at some point." Their live show has something for everybody. "Our set contains about half acoustic-rhythmic, folk songs and half electric, dirty-guitar tunes. There is a good bit of washboard and percussion throughout." In recording the album, the band wanted to preserve the purist nature of their sound. "There are no effects on this album. We recorded every song in one or two takes and adjusted levels - that was it. We wanted the songs to sound like one of our live shows, like a big party in a small road-house." For A Good Time Call and Wild Pierre, two of the bands favorite songs, indeed capture the gritty magic of a night at Birdies' Roadhouse. Why the title Louisiana Crude? In part the title comes from the crude characters that inhabit songs like Keep Sniffin and Wild Pierre. It comes from the crude land scape that is both dirty and beautiful. And of course, oil. "The last song we recorded was the song Louisiana Crude, which is about the oil spill. But once we stepped back and looked at all the songs and what they were about, that song title worked on every level in describing the album." On
The Road and Around the Block Recent appearances - 2010
Recent appearances - 2009
Recent appearances - 2008
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