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| Joe Le Taxi |
location: EUROPE: United Kingdom :Wales website: http://www.joeletaxi.co.uk contact: |
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"Hot Zydeco Dance Music from the Welsh Frontier" Joe Le Taxi & the Zydeco Band play hardcore Louisiana Zydeco. A mix of authentic Creole blues, sleazy shuffles, old school waltzes influenced by the raw dance music of such legends as John Delafose and Bebe Carriere to the more funky, Zydeco Nouveau style influenced by Boozoo Chavis, Beau Jocque and Keith Frank. Now with an energetic, fresh, new line up, Joe Le Taxi's Zydeco Band continues to pack the dance floors across the UK and Europe with their laid back, Zydeco groove that is guaranteed to keep that dance floor jumping!. Joe Le Taxi & The Zydeco Band are: REES WESSON. Formerly with folk/reggae hotshots 'Edward II', Rees became Joe Le Taxi after a mind expanding trip to the swamplands of Louisiana. Rees is backed up by some of the best musicians on the UK Zydeco scene which has seen them pack dance floors all over Europe, more recently selling out their Saturday night, headline slot, at the Bristol Cajun & Zydeco Festival 2006. DAN ELDON. As seen with Hull band 'The Hutt', Welshpool based 'Mr Sticky', and the infamous ‘No Ring Circus'; Joe Le... |
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| Rees Wesson - accordion. Kev Torne - guitar. Dan Eldon - rub-board. Jacqui Savage - bass. Andy Watson - drums. |
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genre: :- sound like: :Keith Frank, Boozoo Chavis, John Delafose, Beau Jocque |
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