Curley Taylor never intended his third disc to come out like this. It’s not the most polished affair, having been recorded at home, but these tracks exhibit the rawness that zydeco’s known for. More importantly, the lack of a formal studio environment allowed substantial spontaneity and spawned novel ideas, which is what’s so interesting about this recording.

On “Zydeco Cowboys,” Taylor describes the zydeco dancing Creole cowboy not once but twice with a reprise, the second a remixed track with rap style-delivered lyrics. Similarly, Taylor delivers one rendition of James Brown’s “A Man’s World” as a passionate, soulful ballad and then reprises it as if JB was once a zydeco sex symbol.

The opening track “Fire!!!!!” revolves around the babe who’s so hot on the dance floor, the fire department has to hose her down so the joint can cool off. That might sound more Ohio Players than Buckwheat Zydeco, and Taylor evokes contemporary R&B when he introduces a song, saying, “Curley Taylor, ZT, twenty-oh-seven.” Perhaps it’s a function of working at home, but somewhere along the line, Taylor seems to have learned the valuable lesson that Zydeco, the blues, R&B and hip-hop are all part of the same extended musical family.