Wild Tchoupitoulas - Vinyl Album - VG - Native American Music with Neville Bros
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Description
The Wild Tchoupitoulas is a 1976 album by the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian tribe the Wild Tchoupitoulas. While not a commercial success, the album was well received critically and the experience recording it encouraged the four Neville brothers to perform together for the first time as a group. The album features the "call-and-response" style chants typical of Mardi Gras Indians. Vocals were provided by George Landry, as "Big Chief Jolly", as well as other members of his Mardi Gras tribe. Instrumentation was provided in part by members of the New Orleans band the Meters. The album also features Landry's nephews and the Neville Brothers providing harmonies and some instrumentation. Meaningful of the geographic location of New Orleans as a Caribbean city, "Meet de Boys on the Battlefront" is based on the melody and rhythm of Trinidadian calypso artist Lord Invader's 1943 "Rum and Coca Cola" made famous in the U.S. by the Andrews Sisters in 1944. Selling by original owner, smoke-free home.
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