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I Remember the Night Your Trailer Burned Down

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Reconnecting the roots of southern literary shamanism with the hottest flipping piano licks since Fats Waller, the music of Bobby Lounge, quite simply, rearranges your molecules. The Voice reaches down into your deepest Southern Strands and pulls out recongition, raw-ancestor-process and wild-booty shaking joy. Need some musical medicine for the post-katrina world? Get this cd, keep it close, play it often.

As an amateur piano player of many, many years, I can say that this CD collection of songs is one of the most amazing I have ever heard. "Take Me Back to Abita Springs" is mind-bending and spell-binding!!. Bobby's left hand must have been "frozen" after over 8 minutes of continuous harddriving boogie woogie bass!! He is a true virtuouso.

If you're from the deep south, or have spent time in the deep south, this is the album for you. Great piano playing and singing, with equal parts Jerry Lee Lewis and gospel singing if you can believe it! The imagery that Bobby Lounge conjures up makes me recall people and events from when I was a kid. This stuff is funny, irreverant, bitchy, cutting and smothered in magonolia rhythms. I only wish I could have seen Bobby Lounge in his portable iron lung at Jazz Fest this year! Go out and buy this CD today, or remember, "I'm is still got the hammer!"

Mark
Austin Riffs

The piano playing is very good and the singing is very good and the original songs are very good. I also like this CD because I produced it. My friends tell me it it is the best thing they have heard. The Bobby Lounge website has more info.

This recording is one of those milestone pieces - here was a guy in a self imposed exile for 20 years - who was persuaded to record in someone's living room a CD that has caught the whole piano blues community by storm. For a pianist to make his 'debut' to absolutely rave reviews in New Orleans - now that is something. This CD captures the spirit of an incredible pianist and one can only hope for more CD's in the future. I liked this CD because it sounds "hot" yet pure - somewhat like the early Louis Armstrong recordings or like the early Alan Lomax recordings of Ledbetter or even the early Dylan recordings. It is interesting that these recordings were done in "one take" and in the order as they appear on the CD.

Just when you think you heard all the piano blues in the world - here comes this CD. So witty. So inventive. The lyrics are as good as anything - anyone - anywhere - anytime I have heard. And this was recorded in someone's living room. Wow. Where has this guy been? The South - of course!

If you are reading this review, you are already in the know. If you like sublime piano playing, great vocals and creative, salacious lyrics, then Bobby is your man. Hailing from the Gulf Coast, Bobby Lounge embodies the spirit and musical tradition of the region.

(...) If you want to sample deliciously unique musical cocktail, then buy "I Remember The Night Your Trailer Burnt Down."

God bless New Orleans, Mississippi, and Bobby Lounge.

Part Jerry Lee Lewis, part Randy Newman, wholly gothic and completely original, Bobby Lounges' 'I Remember the Night Your Trailer Burn't Down' is one for the books More Confederacy of Dunces than Absalom, Absalom!, this is the CD that Ignatius J. Reilly would have had on his I-Pod at the Lucky Dog. Tapping his feet to the barrelhouse rock and roll that Lounge offers up on his baby grand. Lounge fleshes out his songs and characters with a fully loaded brush of local color. He draws from the Southerners who choose to be more 'unique' than ordinary, more 'interesting' than safe because being 'eccentric' is the only 'normal' thing to do. 'Take me Back to Abita Springs' is a blistering homage of longing after a misguided effort to become a porn star in California. Nobody but Bobby Lounge can sing about picking up a snack box of Popeyes' Fried Chicken and have it represent the dysfunctional tension of the matriarchal South.

These are songs about characters that Lounge examines, extolls, forgives and ultimately loves because, in Lounges own words, 'I Will Always Be Better Than You". If this album were a glass of iced tea it would be sweetened, naturally, with extra sugar and a twist of lemon for bite. Own this record or go buy real estate on the Gulf Coast, either way, Lounges' soundtrack will blow you away.


NOTE: Don't let the "Parental Advisory" sticker fool you. There's' not a bad word on it, just 'unusual 'ones.

"I'll Always be Better Than You" cut recommended for all winning lawyers to play for opposing counsel.

Combine Jerry Lee Lewis' piano talent with Randy Newman's writing skills and add a ton of pure irreverence and you have Bobby Lounge. What's not to like about this one? If you know the rural south well enough to poke some fun at it or some of your own relatives, I cannot imagine not loving this one.