A churning dynamo, fully powered from start to finish, the latest release from Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers backs up the threat of its title. All 10 tracks burn and burn, all of them original songs designed to knock over a dancehall. Songs like “Better Go Get It” demand more from the dancers, the [...]
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Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers, Up in Flames (Sound of New Orleans Records)
August 1, 2010 – 12:42 am
Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers, Up In Flames (Sound of New Orleans)
March 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
Unlike his contemporaries Keith Frank, Chris Ardoin and Curley Taylor, whose fathers also played professionally, Dwayne Dopsie leans more towards the older, bluesier variety of his father, the legendary Rockin’ Dopsie, Sr., than the mainstream courtings of his peers. Granted his tempos are usually amped up and turbocharged on this all-original affair, but they’re not [...]
