This debut CD "Holy Moly" came about on one of my many NOLA visits since 1996. In 2015 I met Jacques Delatour while he was doing a live recording on Frenchman St. At the time, I was interested in saving and enhancing two sets of 30-year-old live cassette recordings. One from a R&B band, Sail Cat and the second from a jazz group called The State Street Band. We struck up a short conversation, and later he said he gets a lot of sorted old timers' music chatter, but we exchanged contact information. Jacques said to get in touch if I ever wanted to do some recording that would be in a totally different quality realm. I did and he organized the December 2017 recording session at the Music Shed with this top-drawer group of New Orleans musicians and great mastering by Bruce Barielle. Hope you enjoy the result.
The CD title song “Holy Moly” was originally recorded live in 1981.
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