MADE IN THE SHADE - RED STICK RAMBLERS
The Red Stick Ramblers are clearly preoccupied, in a most admirable fashion, with a full immersion in the music of southwest Louisiana. The tune “Katrina” is a typically Cajun rejoinder to the hurricane’s aftermath; a response grounded in a ferocious rhythm and the dual fiddles of Kevin Wimmer and Linzay Young, which do most of the talking. After assaying a lyrical rendition of Bob Wills’ “Don’t Cry, Baby,” they tear through an enthusiastic cover of Belton Richard’s “Laisse les Cajuns Danser,” then follow with a high-voltage take on Clifton Chenier’s classic Zydeco number “Hot Tamale Baby.” It’s enough to drive a Yankee to learn to dance the two-step. Made in the Shade
