Description
Release Date: 2003
Label: Memphis International
Track List
1 Bring It On Down To My House
2 Main Street Blues
3 What Do I Do?
4 Stay All Night
5 Belle
6 Two Step Des Condanmes
7 Rattle My Cage
8 Blue Drag
9 Dinah
10 Parting Waltz
11 16 Tons
12 When The Sugar Canes Tall
Personnel
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Mandolin, Backing Vocals – Chas Justus
Bass – Ricky Rees
Drums, Triangle, Backing Vocals – Glenn Fields
Fiddle, Fiddle [Octave], Banjo [Tenor], Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals – Joel Savoy
Fiddle, Vocals – Linzay Young
Mandolin, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals – Josh Caffery
Notes
The Red Stick Ramblers hail from Louisiana and this CD showcases their collective talents that feature twin fiddles, a tight rhythm section, guitar, mandolin and strong vocals. This band offers a tasty blend of Cajun, Western Swing, and Django-style jazz. Three Western Swing tunes take the cake on this CD – the title cut (Bring It on Down to My House), Stay All Night, and Dinah. These tracks feature tight fiddling, strong vocals, and a rhythm section that pushes the band at just the right tempos. It’s enough to make you say “aaaahhh”. Talented fiddler Linzay Young provides lead vocals on many of the tunes and his vocal range and inflection are perfect for the arrangements. A number of originals including Main Street Blues and Rattle My Cage are very strong tunes. The mournful fiddle at the beginning of Rattle My Cage is very haunting, enough to deliver chills upon repeated listenings. Cajun tunes that show up here include Two Step des Condanmés (featuring Cajun accordion wizard Steve Riley) and Parting Waltz. If you enjoy music from southwest Louisiana and Texas, then you’ll like this CD.
