Words and music: Bill

Bill's opening utterances not available on our website. Started as a riff in the Clifton Chenier "Hot Tamale" vein and in true zydeco fashion, picked up elements of R&B along the way. Thematically, it deals with "it", whatever your "it" might be.
Vocals:  Bill

Words and music: Lucky

First recorded by Lois Olney for Coolbaru Club, a TV docu-drama about the social club/dance/hall/community group in East Perth in the 50s-the soulful centre for the Aboriginal community. For all those people who see a better world as an inescapable reality.

Vocals: Lucky

Zydeco

Words and music: Lucky and Bill

Used to be called "Derby Hat". Lucky wrote the riff and the chords; Bill wrote most of the words and the tribal call and response bit, guaranteed to get the quietest punters yelling their heads off. There's a little bit of everything in this musical gumbo including an accordion that sounds like a harmonica, and a guitar solo recorded in a virtual tilt-a-whirl. Vocals: Bill

Brand New World

Words and music: Phil Baugh and Vern Stovall

Aaaah…breathe deeply and smell the stale smoke. This poor man's "Night Life" comes from Country Guitar, a classic of an album by rogue guitarist Phil Baugh and genial singing sidekick Vern Stovall. Vocals: Kent

Talk to Me

Words and music: Lucky

Started writing this one at Leroy Preston's hillbilly shack in the hidden hollers around Columbia, Tennessee when there was time…much more time. Was a soul ballad in a previous life, but the call of the shuffle is strong and impossible to ignore. Vocals: Lucky

Baby Please

Words and music: Kent

A low down blues that might have been recorded for Chess Records if they'd had a gonzo steel guitarist. Did Bill's harmonica survive this take? What red blooded female could resist this heartfelt plea? Vocals: Kent

Common Ground

Words and music: Bill

This started out as a raggedy New Orleans second line feel. Put through the 'Trouble man' filter, it smoothed into a minor blues. A noble attempt to write from another's point of view. Interesting mixed solos on this. Vocals: Bill

So Long

Words and music: Kent

Sometimes you're ahead of the market and sometimes the market's ahead of you. Would have been a big hit if it'd been written in 1956 for Karl Mann. The dancers don't seem to worry about 'le temps passe'. Lyrically speaking, any resemblance to characters driving Kubelwagons is strictly Freudian. Vocals: Kent

Step on In

Music: Lucky

Step on In? Make your own anagram! Solos all round - including Bob Patient, the 6th Zydecat. Vocals:

Train Called the Blues

Words and music: Lucky

A vehicle for the trusty 1930 National Duolian. Actually used to live by the railroad track