Louisiana Music

Rockin' Dopsie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 1991)
• Original Release Date: October 29, 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Atlantic / Wea
• ASIN: B000002IRU
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #153,623 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I'm in the Mood

2. Keep a Knockin'

3. Since I Lost My Baby

4. Joséphine Par Se Ma Femme

5. Lafayette Two-Step

6. Hot Tamale Baby (Ain't That Right)

7. The Things I Used to Do

8. Calinda

9. That's All Right

10. Zydeco Two-Step

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funky Party Music Bayou Style !, October 22, 2000

By 

Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Louisiana Music (Audio CD)

I have an autographed copy of this album somewhere. Here in Philly we used to have this festival called "The Jambalaya Jam" (still do, but different name) and loads of groups, known and lesser known would come up from Louisiana. - - The year Rockin Dopsie debuted (1985?) I think the Neville's and Dr. John headlined. Dopsie was on at 5:00 in the afternoon... and I remember my first impressions of the group when they were tuning up... a guy who looked like B.B. King playing blues licks on an ACCORDIAN - - his son is wearing a cooking apron and a washboard, and the bass player was tuning up playing these funky licks that were so deep, it felt like I was getting kicked in the but... I practically stared at Alton Rubin Sr. (Rockin' Dupsie) and the accordian thinking, "What the...?" and then they started... MAN, DID THEY SMOKE... they won Philly over, and became very popular at the festival from then on (even before getting a moment of fame on Paul Simon's Graceland album) - - Yes, it's cajun bayou music, yes its the blues... and yes, a lot of the songs are in French... that was wierd for me too at the time because they were black dudes, and I'm from Philadelphia... and we didn't even have a lot of Hatian dudes, let alone French speaking people playing blues on the accordian with Conked har and opening their show with James Brown and Sam and Dave numbers... but this band was so exciting and they won us over. - - Sr. is up in heavy now heatin' things up with Clifton Chenier... and Buckwheat who was also unknown at the time went on to fame as an opening act for Eric Clapton... and all these years later... both I and the CD have met on the net, and I think I'm going to get it, cos' as many times as I listened to that album, it must be pretty beat up. *Etwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah ! (*or however you spell it !)