![]() ![]() Their high energy live performances have been witnessed across the entire globe and they are now regular festival headliners. Hailing from Geneva, Switzerland the ‘Mamas’ have toured and recorded extensively for several years. JIBBER JAZZ FESTIVAL PLUSMama Rosin’ consist of ‘Les Freres Suchet’ ( Lebanese-Armenian Cyril Yeterian on vocals and melodeon and the ludicrously big haired Robin Girod on guitar, banjo and vocals) plus chain smoking human stick insect Xavier Bray on percussion and occasional harmonica. The band members also perform as The Kneejerk Reactions, Nine Ton Peanut Smugglers and Crown-toppers – just to confuse the gig going, record buying public as much as humanly possible! The Kneetremblers have a ridiculously large stack of records available on Voodoo Rhythm, Beast, Dirty Water, Folc and many other fine independent record labels. Hard living Gez aka Reg Rezzard weighs in on bass duties. On this record he plays the drum set and hits, shakes and scrapes various other inanimate objects. ![]() The ever popular, near legendary Bash is a veteran of many, many, many a beat combo. In the Kneetremblers Sir Bald is joined by Bruce ‘Bash’ Brand and Gez Gerrard. ‘Hipbone Slim and the Kneetremblers’ hail from Oxford and London. With a little reworking, rejigging and remixing we have to say we are very pleased with the results and are confident that you will find them most aurally satisfactory also. We are happy to report that we have retrieved and rescued a number of top notch previously thought of as ‘lost’ tracks from their various recording sessions. Some of you may own the ‘Mama Rosin together with Hipbone Slim’ album ‘Louisiana Sun’ on Voodoo Rhythm records? We would thoroughly recommend it to you all! If you liked it you will surely like this record too. After meeting at a festival in Northern France some years ago these two somewhat diverse musical combos joined forces, recorded and shared a stage on many occasions. ![]() Still we are confident you will greatly enjoy the pepper hot music contained within the micro-grooves herein music played in a style and feel that you might not normally associate with the plains of South Oxfordshire, the hills of Lorraine or the swamps of Geneva!įive cuts on this album feature UK rock ‘n’ roll heavyweights ‘Hipbone Slim and The Kneetremblers’ in cahoots with Swiss ‘Combat Cajun’ kings ‘Mama Rosin’. We think you may be surprised to find where the musicians featured originate. All tracks feature the ultra-prolific Sir Bald aka Hipbone Slim (generally but not exclusively on guitar and voice) together with his band the Kneetremblers and various other musical friends: Mama Rosin, Slim Cyder, Achille Lorenz and Juke Boy Barkus. ![]() On this long playing record you will hear music inspired by the sounds of Louisiana and America’s ‘Deep South’ a veritable gumbo of swamp blues, Cajun, zydeco, country, gospel swamp pop and suchlike. To his memory and the greats of Cajun and zydeco music this album is dedicated. He also cooked up a spicy blend of swamp blues, Cajun and zydeco. A big man with an ever bigger appetite! He cooked up a hot boudin, a mean gumbo and a smoking jambalaya. For those of you who might not know, Bo Gumbo was a legendary musical chef from the bayous of Louisiana. ![]()
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