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:: Release Info:
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:: Artist......> Mel Melton and the Wicked Mojos
:: Title.......> Papa Mojos Roadhouse
:: Label.......> Louisiana Red Hot
:: Genre.......> Blues
:: Rip.Date....> 01.22.2006
:: Street.Date.> 09.13.2005
:: Source......> CDDA
:: Quality.....> VBRkbps - Joint-Stereo
:: Play Time...> 43:30 min
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:: Track Listing:
::
:: 01. Zydeco Razzle
:: 02. Papa Mojo
:: 03. Juke Joints & Honkytonks
:: 04. Missing You Baby
:: 05. Ils Sont Parti
:: 06. Funky Nola
:: 07. Pray for Day
:: 08. Mama Mamou
:: 09. What I Say
:: 10. Bunkie Boogie
:: 11. Song for Laurel
:: 12. Song for Laurel (Lagniappe)
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:: Release Notes:
::
:: Roy "Mel" Melton knows how to cook onstage and off. Nicknamed
:: "The Zydeco Chef" by former bandmate and friend C.J. Chenier
:: and "Cookie Boy" by Sonny Landreth, another old band partner,
:: Mel has been enjoying the success of two careers for three
:: decades: one as a musician and the other as a professional
:: chef and culinary consultant. According to Melton, "The food
:: and music of Acadiana have always been inseparable for me."
::
:: Mel moved to Lafayette, Louisiana, in the 1970s and began
:: playing in a band he co-founded with Sonny Landreth, the
:: Lafayette slide guitar-playing superstar. He recorded on
:: Sonny's first record, Blues Attack, in 1978, featuring C.J.
:: Chenier on saxophone and Buckwheat Zydeco on the Hammond
:: organ. Over the next fifteen years, he honed his musical and
:: cooking skills, eventually becoming a well-known Cajun chef.
:: At the same time, he was becoming known as a singer and a
:: harmonica player who created a Zydeco style of playing that
:: has earned him the reputation as the world's number one
:: Zydeco harmonica player. In addition to playing with Sonny,
:: he was frequently on stage with the King of Zydeco, Clifton
:: Chenier, and spent a year touring with the internationally
:: known "Cajun Rocker," Zachary Richard.
::
:: In 1982, Sonny and Mel formed the band Bayou Rhythm, and
:: eventually added C.J. Chenier to the lineup. The band
:: recorded Way Down in Louisiana in 1985. A song on that
:: record, "Congo Square," was co-written by Sonny and Mel and
:: has since been recorded by the Neville Brothers, John Mayall,
:: Tom Principato and several other artists. Bayou Rhythm toured
:: heavily and headlined national shows and also opened for
:: legendary musicians including Ray Charles, B.B. King, Dr.
:: John, the Neville Brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dave Edmunds,
:: and the Fabulous Thunderbirds.
::
:: In 1986, Melton left the band to pursue a full time chef
:: career in Chicago. In the first month there, as chef at
:: Capers, he won the prestigious Grand Prize at the Rolls
:: Royce/Krug Champagne Invitational Chef Competition. The
:: restaurant was named one of the top ten new Chicago
:: restaurants of 1987. He frequently did cooking demonstrations
:: and appeared on various Chicago radio and television
:: programs. He was also a featured chef at the Chicago Jazz
:: Festival, the American Cancer Society Christmas Gala, and
:: Mardi Gras at the Limelight Club.
::
:: In 1990, Melton moved back home to North Carolina, where he
:: continued showcasing his cooking skills at numerous events
:: and cooking schools and by opening several restaurants. In
:: 1995, he formed his current band, Mel Melton & the Wicked
:: Mojos, and in 1998 recorded his first CD, Swampslinger, for
:: New Moon Music, a Chapel Hill-based blues label. The CD was
:: named one of the top ten blues CD of the year by the
:: Washington Post. He followed that up with Mojo Dream in 2000,
:: on the Nashville-based Nightfly label, and it was awarded
:: Zydeco Record of the Year by Real Blues magazine. He also
:: authored his first cookbook, Cookie Boy, the Authentic Cajun
:: Recipes of Mel Melton, published by Kartobi Press of
:: Farmington, New Mexico.
::
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:: RiP iN PeACe!
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