Boozoo Chavis (album)
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| Boozoo Chavis | ||||
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| Released | 1991 | |||
| Genre | Zydeco | |||
| Label | Elektra/Nonesuch | |||
| Producer | Terry Adams | |||
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Boozoo Chavis is an album by the American musician Boozoo Chavis, released in 1991.[1][2] It was part of the Elektra/Nonesuch American Explorer series.[3] The album was the culmination of a comeback for Chavis that had begun in 1984.[4][5] Chavis supported the album by playing the Newport Folk Festival.[6]
Boozoo Chavis was produced by Terry Adams; Adams and NRBQ had recorded a song titled "Boozoo, That's Who!"[7][8][9] The album was recorded in Louisiana over the course of four days, a long period of studio time for a Chavis album.[10] Two of Chavis's sons played on the album; Chavis's band used rubboard, bass, two guitars, and drums.[11][12] Chavis did not always enjoy recording in a professional studio setting, even though Adams took a hands-off approach.[13][14] Chavis performed a few solo numbers with just his accordion and vocals.[15]
Chavis first recorded some of the songs, such as "Tee Black", in the 1950s.[16] On "Forty One Days", he acknowledges his sometimes shaky sense of cadence: "If it's wrong, do it wrong."[17] "Bernadette" is performed as a ballad.[18] "Dog Hill" is about Chavis's neighborhood in Lake Charles, Louisiana.[19] Chavis sang some songs in a French-English dialect.[20]
