Tonight from 7-11 p.m., Ernie Vincent and the Top Notes play the Mother-in-Law Lounge, which had a car run into its wall only last monday. This is a return of sorts for Vincent, whose band usually backed Ernie K-Doe when he first opened the Mother-in-Law in the mid-90′s. Here, Vincent plays his deep-funk classic “Dap [...]
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KOLAB’s Ernie Vincent
November 1, 1997 – 12:01 am
It’s a long way from the plantations in Thibodeaux to the Pacific Rim but Ernie Vincent seems to make the trip look easy. Vincent’s journey began in 1945 when he was born into a blues-singing family from Thibodeaux, Louisiana. His earliest recollections are of the “blues jumps” that his family would hold beneath the old [...]
