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I Remember the Night Your Trailer Burned Down
Artist:
Bobby Lounge
Format: CD
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1. Bank of Love
2. Slime Weasel
3. I Will
4. Take Me Back to Abita Springs
5. I Remember the Night Your Trailer Burned Down
6. Excuse Me Abuse Me
7. If I Had Been Elvis
8. I'll Always Be Better Than You
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Bobby enjoys writing songs about the south and about people with robust lifestyles. He chooses to avoid the limelight when not performing on stage. However, on stage, Bobby is a energetic entertainer in the tradition of Little Richard, Bobby Marchan, and Jerry Lee Lewis. His song writing style has been described as 'Randy Newman with bite.' Some songs are not appropriate for children. Bobby Lounge was born in the deep south in 1950. He learned to play piano before his early teens and was influenced by southern gospel, blues, and barrelhouse piano players. Notes from John Preble, manager of Bobby Lounge I first saw Bobby Lounge perform in concert in New Orleans in the early eighties. He came with a large entourage and gave what I thought was an incredible performance. Months after this show, we became friends and we discussed the idea of Bobby developing an entertaining night club show. I also encouraged him to continue to write and we began recording his music on simple home audio cassette recorders. Unfortunately, Bobby became ill (chronic fatigue syndrome)and could not perform publicly. Now, after over 20 years, he has learned to 'manage' his health problems and he will performing a few shows during 2005. ----------------- PERFORMANCE/CD REVIEW 06/02/2005 Rolling Stone - from a column titled: Out There by David Fricke I can't tell you much about mysterious Mississippi spitfire Bobby Lounge other than this: That's not his real name, and he made an unforgettable entrance at this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, wheeled onstage by a nurse in an iron lung (actual a huge steam-room cabinet). Than, chugging beer in obvious perfect health, he turned into Bessie Smith, Jerry Lee Lewis, Flannery O'Conner and Bob Dylan (the lyrical-surrealist edition) all at once, playing blazing barrelhouse piano and belting outrageously vivid blues from the far fringes of Southern life. This debut album has everything I saw a Jazz Fest but the lung, including the twisted recipe of love 'I Will' (mix bondage and Popeyes chicken; stir vigorously), and the parade of unnatural wonders in the rolling-boogie epic 'Take Me Back to Abita Springs,' a kind of 'Desolation Row' exploding with Little Richard-style piano and starring, among other things, an infant flamenco dancer, a singing burro and the queen of England's underwear. Lounge has a very high opinion of himself' He closes here with the gospel-piano sunrise of 'I'll Always Be Better Than You.' But in your heart, you know he's right. ----------------- PERFORMANCE REVIEW published 04/26/2005 by The New York Times; excerpted from a column titled: A Beloved Funk Group Rocks Again, and a Venerable Festival Rolls On By Ben Ratliff New to nearly everyone was Bobby Lounge, a balding, middle-aged eccentric from Mississippi who on Saturday delivered lethally sardonic songs (like 'I'll Always Be Better Than You') with a percussive blues-and-barrelhouse piano style. He was wheeled on and off stage in a silver steam cabinet, the kind of thing once used for weight reduction. 'I call it the Iron Lung,' he said backstage, sipping a beer. 'It perpetuates the myth that Bobby's a little infirm.' (He keeps his real identity secret, his manager said, so as not to imperil his day job.) ----------------- CD REVIEW pubublished on 04/19/05 by Gambit Weekly (New Orleans) by Alison Fensterstock I Remember the Night Your Trailer Burned Down Bobby Lounge (Abitian) 'We are offering this disk to the public at the request of the many people who have heard of the genius of Bobby Lounge, but who may not have had a chance to see him perform,' explain the liner notes, which go on to point out that the late-baby-boomer-age Lounge performed his witty, slightly twisted piano tunes in the '70s, mostly at house parties. Over long interludes -- the shortest song clocks in just under five minutes; the longest approaches nine -- of gospel, blues and barrelhouse-influenced piano, Lounge rants, testifies and orates, flipping deftly between twisted humor, sly sarcasm and a genuine storyteller's gift. There are almost too many priceless couplets on the album to relate; one gem is 'If I seem haunted / and if I seem distant / it's only because I'm much better than you,' from 'I'll Always Be Better Than You.' This album, recorded live in 2004, marks Lounge's return to performing, and after a listening, the liner notes makes sense. Play it with guests in your house, and they'd be likely to ask, 'What the hell is that guy talking about?' and then you could say, 'Oh, that's just Bobby Lounge.' It's fair to guess that that would be a pretty accurate recreation of an exchange at any of those '70s house parties where Lounge initially demonstrated his genius. -- Alison Fensterstock.Email Signup
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