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Wild Injuns down in New Orleans (*)
The only words I know to describe such type of music are “New Orleans”. New Orleans and her Mardi-Gras and Carnival, New Orleans and her old dixie jazz, New Orleans and her jazz funerals and second line parades, New Orleans and her tribal rhythms, New Orleans and her swamp blues and bayou R'n'B, New Orleans and her Zydeco and Cajun music, New Orleans and her French creole culture, New Orleans the unique, New Orleans the Big Easy where music is a way of life, New Orleans the Big Funky, New Orleans the only city that could beget Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias !
Some characteristics make the Mardi-Gras Indians of New Orleans quite unique : strong Afro-Caribbean musical roots immediately identifiable in their rhythmic patterns (bass drum, congas, cowbell, tambourine…); incorporation of brass jazz; traditional lyrics in Creole French patois; constant call-response between the lead singer and the background vocalists; and last but not least sumptuous costumes as colorful as a party of tropical birds in the jungle.
