Various - Ernie Vincent Presents The Kolab Kollection

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:37
Size: 113.6 MB
Styles: R&B, Soul, New Orleans blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:06] 1. Ernie & The Top Notes, Inc. - Dap Walk
[2:59] 2. Ernie K-Doe - Night Fox
[2:53] 3. Carolyn Craft - It's So Wonderful
[3:00] 4. Ernie Vincent - Honey Buns
[3:05] 5. L.C. Green - What You've Been Putting Down
[2:44] 6. Mathilda Jones - I've Wronged Too Long
[3:32] 7. Alex Spearman - Once A Heart's Been Broken
[3:08] 8. Ernie Vincent - Your Love's Haunting Me
[3:21] 9. Mathilda Jones - Your Good Good Love
[3:14] 10. Ernie Vincent - I'm Your Snake Baby
[3:09] 11. L.C. Green - Start All Over Again
[5:02] 12. Ernie Vincent - Swamp Daddy
[3:41] 13. Ernie Vincent - Christmas Blues
[3:26] 14. Ernie Vincent - Pork Chop Alley
[3:09] 15. The Top Notes - Night Fox (Dub Vers)

As a local bandleader in New Orleans, Ernie Vincent backed touring stars like Joe Tex, Solomon Burke, and Percy Sledge, as well as local legends like Ernie K-Doe, , Irma Thomas, and Johnny Adams. Meanwhile, he reached worldwide fame with his own band, The Top Notes, on "Dap Walk." As an independent writer and arranger, Ernie has also created a legacy of recordings with many regrettably forgotten artists on his own KOLAB Records, as well as other micro-labels like Justice, Fordom, and Solid State. This thirty-year collection gives you a sampling of these hidden gems, restored and remastered. All songs are written, composed, produced, and performed by Ernie Vincent, plus a previously unreleased performance by the late Ernie K-Doe ("Night Fox").

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Ernie Vincent - Bayou Road Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:33
Size: 76.8 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:25] 1. Party On The Bayou
[3:25] 2. Swamp Daddy's
[3:24] 3. Bayou Road
[2:41] 4. King Bee
[3:56] 5. Mardi Gras Chief
[3:33] 6. I'm Your Snake Baby
[3:15] 7. Just Like My Woman
[3:04] 8. River City People
[4:06] 9. I Can't Believe
[2:40] 10. Swamp Jump Boogie

Ernie Vincent – Guitar, Vocals; Andrew Duhon – Harmonica; Big Chief Monk Boudreaux – Tambourine; West Bank Mike – Guitar.

Considered by many to be a funk music pioneer, Ernie Vincent grew up playing guitar in the bayous of Southern Louisiana. From a very young age, his family and his neighbors taught him to play guitar. In the early 1970’s Ernie formed the Top Notes. Soon after the band gained local notoriety playing clubs all over New Orleans including the Mason Strip and backing many of the top Rhythm & Blues acts of the era including Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, and Joe Simon.Since it exploded in 1972, the funk anthem “Dap Walk” has been shaking butts all over the world. Most recently the B side of "Dap Walk", "Things are Better" featured on an Nike Commercial featuring Lebron James and HBO’s hit series “Sex and the City” featured Dap Walk which has become a cult classic from Sweden to Tokyo and DJ’s worldwide are scrambling to find the few remaining copies of the original 45. For many record collectors worldwide, Dap Walk is a most sought after record. Recently, Ernie has reformed his band The Top Notes with some fine young New Orleans talent, Eric Heigle(drums), Josh Reppel(bass), Phillip Breen(Keyboards), and James Martin(sax). Additionally local accomplished trumpet player Shamarr Allen will be joining the horn section when his schedule allows. If you’ve been waiting for some low down funky blues, Ernie’s primed to deliver!

Ernie has also recently completed an Acoustic Delta Blues CD with local bluesman Andrew Duhon(harmonica) entitled “Bayou Road Blues". Due to the personal nature of this style of music to Ernie, all of which he dedicates to his late father, Mr. Ernest Duncan Williams, Ernie has held this music close to his heart. With the relaunching of his career, we thought this would be an appropriate way to start over with the deep "roots' blues, which he quietly has been a master of all along. ~Jerry Moran

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Ernie Vincent - Louisiana Magic

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:34
Size: 99.8 MB
Styles: Louisiana blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:03] 1. Woke Up This Morning
[3:02] 2. She's My Honey Buns
[4:52] 3. Everyday I Have The Blues
[4:42] 4. Party On The Bayou
[4:28] 5. Mardi Gras Chief
[4:30] 6. River City People
[3:54] 7. I Got A Woman
[4:07] 8. Te-Ta-Te-Ta-Ta
[4:59] 9. Swamp Daddy
[4:53] 10. We Do Funk

Often lost in the debate over live music venues is the essential role they play in the gestation and sustenance of local traditions. Nowhere was that more true than the heyday of New Orleans blues and R&B. People still mention, say, Johnny Adams playing Uptown with a deserved nostalgia. We need those places in the community, out of the tourist spotlight but at the heart of local life.

Ernie Vincent comes from that territory, and his new album could find a home in any of the countless jukeboxes that once filled the time between sets. The ghosts of Fess and Earl King are close at hand; the Howlin’ Wolf, K-Doe and Ray Charles covers are lively; and the outfit is appropriately workmanlike. Eric Heigle’s drums and the horn section of James Martin, Mike Kobrin and Ian Smith give Vincent the right landscape for his straight-ahead vocals and guitar. The original cuts are decent, New Orleans-centric burners (“Party on the Bayou,” “Mardi Gras Chief,” “River City People”) meant to frame energetic late-night revelry. One can almost hear the buzzer and the bartender walking to allow another guest through the door.

Especially good is the final cut, “We Do Funk.” Martin opens things with a confident solo, followed by Kobrin’s trumpet, the rhythm of Vincent’s wah pedal underlying the strut. Good to remember how deep things get in the wee hours when the neighbors are asleep. ~Brian Boyles

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