Damon (00:00.43)
Just like Rocky.

Taj Williams (00:42.744)
You

DW (00:43.738)
Welcome back to the Ultimate Playlist Podcast full of choice tracks. I'm Dietrich.

Damon (00:50.2)
Daemon!

Taj Williams (00:51.528)
I'm Taj. So... I'm a Taj.

DW (00:53.744)
I was counting wheat.

Damon (00:55.222)
I think I was trying to do an accent too, in a way.

DW (01:00.592)
Just leave it alone, Tasha. Nah, I'm gonna need that hyped up energy, man. Come on, get the leg shaking. Hey, hey, gotta do some strange for them bees, little boy. Gotta do some strange for them bees. Okay, okay. That's another day, another time. If y'all ready to go, we can go. So, welcome everybody.

Damon (01:02.062)
That's not working, bro. All right.

Taj Williams (01:02.424)
Not working. OK. I'm going to need some beads if you want hyped up energies, you know, can.

Damon (01:19.395)
Haha.

Taj Williams (01:24.984)
you

DW (01:28.676)
This is the choice tracks ultimate play this podcast where we literally come together as a music podcast and we talk about music. we talk about music in different ways, formats. Sometimes we take, things and try to associate music with it. Sometimes we listen to album reviews. Sometimes we pick off the charts to see what's new and what's high and what's trash. And then other times like this situation, we have a particular style of music that we decided to go over. And in this particular situation, the style of music that we wanted to go through.

or that I chose to go through is something that's near and dear to my heart, mainly because not only do I have family there, not only do I go there on a regular basis to go to different places like Mottic Bra or go down on the, you know, go down the bullet bomb, go check out, you know, all of the different scenes and just fill in the atmosphere. I'm talking about New Orleans, but most importantly, I'm talking about Louisiana and I'm talking about the style of music that's been around since forever and a day.

What I'm talking about here is Zydeco. More specifically, we're talking about 2000 Zydeco because that's when, you know, people start picking up on it outside of those that went into New Orleans, you know, and actually spread across the town and across the world. And it's just, just to feel good music base. Right. So if we're going to get into it, let's get into a little bit. So Zydeco literally comes from, uh, beginning of the 1800s going into the 1900s. Right.

It was about French settlers that came in to Louisiana at the time and they were taking a little bit of the black culture that was there, the mixed breeze which is called Creole, a little bit of French style, a little bit of rhythm and blues, mix it all together and you have a feel good music base, right? Not only was this feel good music base telling stories within the music, but for the most part it was supposed to uplift the people in the South.

So if you're talking about real grassroots coming from America type sound, this is one of those art forms and one of those styles of music that came from here. Even though was French influence because of the path in which it came from, literally everything started here. And what I mean by started here, you literally started everything in from just from the ground up.

DW (03:53.732)
Let's talk about occasion language. It's infused all into the music, occasion style and flow. Even the swing of the music is all about that down south feel, right? So most importantly, when we're talking about this, we're talking about the music that instruments that were used. Yeah, the basic guitar may have some other guitars, may have some pianos, but for the most part, you started off and that has to be a staple in this mix is a front top.

Fortu'a is actually a washboard. And a washboard is what they use in order to keep the rhythm of the beat in order to keep the actual function of the song moving. No matter what music you're listening to, if you're listening to Zydeco, you're gonna hear a washboard of Sokkaan played in the background. That's that. Also, you'll hear an accordion. An accordion is associated with this. So really, these two style of musics that you bring in together,

And then you add in all the rhythm and everything else combined. You got one big gumbo pop of music that you can just listen to and enjoy the whole ride through. Right. Not going to get all the way off into the history of it because there are so many different paths of history from it. But just so we understand, we're all on the same page. I'm going take a little bit out chart here. So pre World War II, you had music that was

by Amidé Ardón. He was one of the known fathers of Cajun music at the time, or critical music, which eventually changed into Zydeco. And then after World War II, you have the second grade migration, which was many more French speaking individuals coming down, living in Marchdale and different parts of Louisiana. So take those bits, pieces, you add them in together.

And then you got a couple of like founders of the sound that actually crafted the sound of what you hear today So you got Clifton Chenier, which is known as the king of zydeco. Yeah Sam Cooke He actually Sam Cooke and Little Richard actually recorded with him and got that sort of feel for me in order to bring it out Yeah, the first best was the four 12 was played and designed by Clifton Chenier back in 1946 so that

Taj Williams (06:07.939)
gotcha.

DW (06:16.836)
He actually designed the best of it. They were just using a washboard at the time that they were washing their clothes. He actually designed the best that people wear and use as an actual instrument within itself. So that's what brought into that, right? And then you come up into the 1980s or Rockin' Sydney, you got My Tutu, you got a whole different slew of different artists to come in in order to actually forbear that music. The person that I wanted to talk about was somebody at

Taj Williams (06:27.608)
Hmm.

DW (06:47.152)
I was introduced to being my first time going to New Orleans when I was 14. And apparently my parents told me that I'd been there before when I was a baby and whatnot, but I don't remember that. I just remember coming down, dancing with the second line and being a part of Mardi Gras. So this particular person had been around since 1930. He essentially passed in 2001. And this was actually one of the last records that he did. And so I'm talking about

those that know him best known by Boozoo Chavez and the name of the song is Johnny Billy Goats.

DW (07:42.746)
So.

This particular individual, man, there's so much that I can say about Boozle. Like from the actual sound that he gave off, from the music that he played, from the actual style in which he played, like he definitely carved his own lane inside of Zydeco within itself. He was born in Lake Charles. He stayed in there all his life. He actually later in life moved over and funny fact,

Exe died in Austin, Texas, which is where we're posting the show out of so the cause of death was strong, but just known as a forefather one of the forefathers of actual Zydeco and You he's one of those people that actually came out in the mix of during 1930s and 40s just after the depression Where you know everything was just now starting to build back up within the nation itself and from a kid

All he did was run around playing music and just being a bad kid, but at the same time honing in on his crap. So tell me what y'all think about Bouzou Javert's Johnny Billy Goat.

Damon (09:00.974)
Yeah, I think I think it's like a it sounds like a very old traditional style. And then he like played for a long time. So that's really cool. I like that he ended up in Austin. I mean, that kind of makes sense. We have like a blues fest here, but I don't remember there being like a Zydeco fest, but I know there's got to be something like it, right? Small.

DW (09:05.903)
Right.

DW (09:15.77)
Mm-hmm.

DW (09:22.948)
Well, it's mixed into the different festivals that we have. It's not a big, like we have a propish festival that goes on. We'll have ZynaCo artists to come through and play for that. But as far as being like honed in or being like highlighted as the actual sound of Austin, it's not. It's only going to be true to form, but in that end, we'll be seeing that on itself. But yes, we do have a market here for all types of music. So it makes perfect sense that he was here in Austin before he passed.

Damon (09:26.807)
Yeah.

Damon (09:52.75)
Yeah, I can see it like even like 20 years ago, like here, Austin was a smaller city. So you would see more like people doing music like that and like small venues and not to say you can't have it in a big city too, but it seemed like it was the pace of Austin for a long time. It was a little bit slower here. And think Zydeco is like not slow necessarily, like it's like a, like it's almost like family oriented, you know?

DW (09:59.258)
Mm-hmm.

DW (10:22.799)
Right.

Damon (10:23.532)
And when I found like, you know, with my artists and like looking some stuff up, I didn't know as much about Zydeco. I've heard of it. I've heard it played, you know, not like completely new to it, but pretty new to it. And it seemed like it's kind passed down and it's like, you know, like within families and like within churches and stuff like that, church groups. And it's that kind of like that close connected family vibe.

DW (10:53.872)
Yeah.

Damon (10:54.146)
And think that's awesome, dude, like music that can like put that out and your artist pick has like definitely had that feel and sound. And I liked it for that. I liked it, like the throwback nostalgia sound coming out of them. that collaboration that you had.

DW (11:09.815)
Thank you.

Taj Williams (11:13.506)
Yeah, no, I enjoyed it a lot like that one. It's interesting because the tempo is upbeat, but like his voice is both his. Sorry. Tongue-tied. His voice, you know, is with the Creole. You know, it sounds really soulful and kind of like it's it's interesting, but it makes sense coming out of, you know, a New Orleans thing coming out of Louisiana. You know that.

DW (11:31.856)
Mm-hmm.

Taj Williams (11:41.324)
The fact that, you know, when there's funerals, you have a marching band, right? It makes sense that you make a music that is always happy, regardless of what the message is or the melody is behind it. and I kind of feel like that's kind of what Zydeco is. It's like, it's supposed to be up tempo fast, regardless, whatever else is going on underneath it. So, but yeah.

DW (11:52.878)
Mm-hmm.

DW (12:04.802)
Zydeco is the spirit of the people.

You hit the nail on the head with that. So that's exactly what it's meant to feel. It's yes, you will be in pain. Yes, you will be feeling bad. You'll be feeling down. But it's meant to uplift you from everything that you've been through. So it is the spirit of the people. And so that's why you have that second band that comes through the marches when somebody passes and you'll see people dancing to the music because they dance it for the life and celebration of the individual and for the soul that's continuing on in that spirit.

not for the passing of the individual because we all come and go as as you know as time has told it so yeah man if you if i've never been to a place and heard a down sad trotting zydeco song ever

And especially when you're talking about venues, like there's some venues, you okay, you can't play hard rock, but some venues you can't play, you know, explicit lyrics. There's some venues you can't play, you know, particular rap songs or whatever. But if you throw on a Zydeco song.

Tell me you don't have a two year old dancing with their mom, a grandma wiggling her chair and everybody else in between out on the floor kicking a jig. Like there's no way, there's no way possible. I haven't seen it. If you've seen it, tell me about it. Matter of fact, don't tell me about it. If y'all seen that type of situation, email us, hit us in the social apps. Let us know what y'all think. Obnically seen it. And if it does happen, I don't want to see it because I want to stay in the spirit.

Taj Williams (13:44.012)
Right. I hear that. So yeah, no, for sure. But I did enjoy your picket and thank you very much for that. Like I knew a little bit about Zydeco and this felt like Damon was saying very traditional, but yeah, it's it was a amazing listen to listen to for sure. Thank you.

DW (14:03.642)
Cool, All right. Well, since we're on that road, Taj, tell us your spirit. What was, what were you feeling when you, when you heard about this particular style of music and how you wanted it in?

Taj Williams (14:14.008)
All right, so I'm going to start on two different ends and then end up with my pick. So when I first heard the term Zydeco and understood there was this style of music was from Paul Simon. And so I used to listen to Graceland forever, like lots of times, but they have a song that was your mother. And it's it's a ballad. That's a that's a Zydeco song.

that I enjoyed a lot. the other thing, so when I did research, you know, I try and find something in the 2000s. A band came up that I knew called JJ Gray and the Mofros, but they are more bluesy. They have Zydeco sound, but they're kind of more somber, more bluesy. And I was like, no, I can't do this because this isn't Zydeco enough. Like it...

DW (15:01.104)
Mm-hmm.

Taj Williams (15:08.406)
Yes, it has Zydeco elements, I can't sit here and call it Zydeco. It's more funky blues with the Zydeco sound. And so I've finally found this band. you know, yeah, I could have gone with something traditional, but I don't know. I was biased based off of Paul Simon. And so I went with this band and their legit band, their legit, their Alve, Louisiana. It's Four Siblings.

DW (15:14.746)
Got it.

Taj Williams (15:38.2)
And so their names are Katie, Paige, Johnny and Stefan. And so they're an American band and they've been doing it for a while and they kind of left, you know, Cajun roots and then came back. But the name of the band is La Angelus and the song that I picked is Rice and Gravy.

DW (15:43.045)
Mm.

Taj Williams (16:13.056)
I mean, I'll admit this may only represent a portion of New Orleans, but like, I don't know, it still makes me happy. Like, and it's clearly Zydeco. You can't tell me it's not happy Zydeco music. And who doesn't like some rice and gravy? know, I would like rice and gravy. I'm I'm dieting right now. So, you know, that sounds good to me.

DW (16:41.518)
Okay, so now you got a food fetish. All right.

Taj Williams (16:43.466)
And I got food bags, yeah. So, but yeah.

DW (16:49.712)
I'm supposed to have a day or two, day or one.

Damon (16:53.166)
But I definitely like some rice and gravy. Or do I? Wait a minute, that's kind of weird. Maybe rice on the side and gravy on something else, but like not together. Is that a traditional like etouffee or is it like a...

Taj Williams (16:55.937)
Yeah

Which...

So is it, well, maybe it depends. Is it white gravy or brown gravy?

DW (17:09.04)
That's what I was about to say. Yeah, I'd do some etouffee for brown. Yeah. Yeah. I would do etouffee. I would do some gumbo. Yeah, that's right up the alley. Even rice and gravy itself is on point, but I got to put something else in there. I got to put some crawfish. I got to put some...

Damon (17:12.834)
Brown.

Taj Williams (17:14.06)
Bruh. Okay.

Damon (17:18.678)
Yeah.

DW (17:28.464)
some yeah some alligator piss i gotta yeah some crawdads i gotta i gotta put some stuff up in there we gotta not size this evening the holy trinity

Damon (17:29.87)
Try dance.

Damon (17:37.484)
Weirdest thing about like, occasion food is like the craw dad thing is so weird they like suck the head out of the craw dad. Like the crawfish, fish boils like, I can't do it. wouldn't do it. I mean, it's, it probably tastes good, whatever, but I'd rather eat like lobster or something.

DW (17:44.805)
Mmm.

Mm-hmm.

DW (17:58.131)
I myself anything that got two eyes looking back at me. I'm not touching that but I will pull the meat out and you know I'm saying take the meat but as far as taking it straight out still I'm I'm I'm weak. I'm not I'm not that I'm not not doing that. Yeah and they they do they do whole shake like whole shrimp. don't they don't cut the heads off or the tails and then you got the whole shrimp off in there. I'm like

Damon (18:14.358)
It's like a Clam Bake or something, you know, like the New England style.

DW (18:25.84)
Nah, but everybody else to each day old you love it. I love it more So do your dances or was that you like it? I love it. That's that's statement but it's okay. So Yeah, rice and gravy. You know what? I'm not even mad at you

Taj Williams (18:26.488)
you

Damon (18:27.134)
well that sucks. Yeah, that's fun.

DW (18:49.648)
I can hear this being played in her Popeye's. She's in, and she wants to eat some more, and being played at a festival, and somebody's in there singing, she wants face anything, and waving egg jinks around in the whole night. It is an earworm. This is definitely an earworm. Is it going to piss you off later? Yeah, it can. But this is like the Disney version of this article, and I love it. I love it because...

Taj Williams (18:54.744)
True, true.

Taj Williams (19:04.28)
It's an earworm, for sure.

DW (19:19.632)
It's like you said like we said earlier Anything that can make you feel good is a good thing in this situation and this is the top of the top when it comes to the feel good shit and Yeah, you talking about she doesn't need a man. She just need to eat as you need her fill and yeah I know there's some undertones and everything in there. We take for that We're gonna take it for face value and just love the song for what it is and it's a it's an up-tempo Good-hearted song. I have no problem with

Taj Williams (19:27.073)
Right.

Taj Williams (19:40.234)
Right.

Taj Williams (19:49.686)
Right. And yeah, I mean, because there is later on where like goes talk to the dead like about Merin curve. So it's kind of like talking about how like all you need are the essentials to get through life, which is rice and gravy. You don't don't need nothing special. You just need the bare bones. Yeah.

DW (20:01.733)
Mm-hmm.

DW (20:07.76)
There you go.

Damon (20:09.902)
It sort of fits the theme with a lot of other Zydeco songs too, where they talk about food and good health and, like I've already mentioned, like family togetherness. They look like the cast of Friends on their album cover, but they're having a good time, you know?

Taj Williams (20:22.219)
Right, yeah.

DW (20:26.39)
Maybe.

Taj Williams (20:26.456)
They do. They do, but they're siblings, so they are friends. Yeah. So it's weird that it's a four sibling band, but yeah, it's like, OK.

Damon (20:39.468)
Yeah, I've definitely, I dig that sibling bands, know, Jackson five is a metal band that's kind of newer, Liliac and you know, it always works, usually works. Sometimes the parent is like the producer manager. So that could be an issue, but it looks like, yeah, they're making it happen. So, or they made it happen.

Taj Williams (20:44.216)
Yeah.

Taj Williams (21:04.214)
Right?

Exactly.

DW (21:07.824)
There you go. Don't forget about Hanson.

Taj Williams (21:10.168)
All right. Right?

Damon (21:10.988)
Yeah, and then you got Hanson.

which is like a huge success. mean, that's...

Damon (21:21.016)
Crazy huge.

DW (21:21.048)
I think they're still singing. That's crazy. Okay, well, Darren, here, that's what your article picked, man. What cat you in the spirit?

Damon (21:30.282)
I, so what was drawing me to Zydeco was the accordion style music that comes out of it. And, Rosie Liddette is who I picked as my artist. And so she was born in, church, Church Point, Louisiana. It already sounds like a town with a lot of church, church folks and family getting together and doing, you know,

doing things together and playing music, listening to music. Maybe they have a traditional dinner they do every Sunday, which would probably be the food that we were just talking about. And I think that like she's really cool because she kind of like was wanting to do this and she was well, I was reading that since she was 16. So like she was like a kid trying to learn how to play accordion and like

DW (22:11.332)
Okay.

DW (22:22.736)
Mm-hmm.

Damon (22:28.728)
bring the music out. so she eventually like, you know, she, I think she even met her husband through all this, like when she was like mentoring. So yeah, you can find little tidbits about her online, but she did, she had a lot of different albums that came out. So this album came out, the song that I had picked came out on an album 2000 and

DW (22:56.772)
Mm-hmm.

Damon (22:58.626)
She's got like, yeah, she's got a ton of different, I think it's like 11 or 12. It's almost like the 90s were kind of like her sound I think came out of the 90s. And the album, it's a groove thing. It's definitely sounds like a 90s album, which I thought was kind of unique because she looks and kind of like has a little bit of a vibe. It's like a younger vibe.

DW (23:24.292)
Mm-hmm.

Damon (23:25.9)
Yeah, she's probably close to our age, but at the time, you know, she was like younger. So to have a younger artist come out with, you know, a side of co-music, I think it's pretty cool. All right, Dietrich.

DW (23:35.056)
Very cool. Very, very cool. I say that because she's actually 53. She's older than us. She's not that much, but she doesn't look it. It's the thing. She's actually come with the Tom's. It's crazy. And full circle. You were talking about how she was 16 and wanted to learn. We can pick it up. Guess what?

Damon (23:41.548)
Not that much.

No, no, she definitely doesn't.

DW (24:00.59)
She was at a Zydeco dance club called the Richman's Club, the Rich's Club. That's at Lattell, Louisiana. Guess who she was watching.

Damon (24:12.002)
You?

DW (24:12.864)
No. I feel that old, but no, she was watching Boozoo Chavez. And that's what inspired her to actually start learning the accordion and play zydeco music.

Damon (24:19.416)
Nah, I'm kidding. wow, what a connection.

That's great.

Damon (24:28.494)
That's awesome.

Taj Williams (24:29.846)
Cool.

Damon (24:32.258)
Yeah, I can see him being a very big inspiration. Yeah, so.

DW (24:40.26)
What was the song that you picked for her?

Damon (24:42.702)
But yeah, let's get into the song here. String Beans at the Rocking.

Damon (25:05.506)
Yeah, so okay, the stream being this is where that kind of derives from. This is like, it's like Creole style music. The term Zydeco derived from the French word haircut, which means stream being. So she's tying in food and history and she's talking about people coming together.

and doing the string bean dance. So that's a dance, but like also, yeah, I think a lot of Zydeco music is just about what it is. There's undertones, of course, and then like still, she probably has a lot of stuff she's talking about other than string beans, but that's kind of her style too.

Taj Williams (25:48.343)
Right?

Damon (26:01.292)
So she has a lot of hidden undertones in her music. But she also plays with the Zydeco Playboys. So that's her band. And she tours New Orleans Jazz Fest and stuff like that. So maybe I could see her someday. I don't know. Pretty badass, though.

DW (26:11.578)
Mm.

DW (26:15.61)
Mm-hmm.

Taj Williams (26:22.956)
That is pretty cool. Yeah.

Damon (26:27.96)
So what do you all think?

Taj Williams (26:29.144)
I liked it. I enjoyed it. So I I felt like there was a lot of similarities between yours and mine, but this one rocked a little bit harder, know, had a little bit more there, more chord changes and I liked it. I enjoyed it for sure. So.

Damon (26:50.242)
Yeah, the music style, I guess it was like they're both like younger. She's probably a little bit older than like the band that you had picked, but not much though.

Taj Williams (26:56.662)
She's older. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, but it's kind of like seeing a pupil versus a master type of thing. Like you can be like, somebody has the fundamentals and then somebody has, you know, that je ne sais quoi, that extra, you know. But yeah. But yeah, no, I enjoyed it. It was a great pick for sure. So.

Damon (27:05.741)
Yeah.

DW (27:05.742)
Yeah.

DW (27:13.358)
Yeah, there you go.

DW (27:18.106)
for yourself.

Damon (27:24.846)
So I actually, I realized that what you're saying, when she met her husband, that was like when she was seeing Boozoo Shavise. Like that's the show. So that all kind of came together. Yeah, that's pretty cool. But the accordion, I think the accordion is like definitely the coolest part of the accordion and then the washboard vest.

DW (27:36.89)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

DW (27:54.03)
Yep.

Damon (27:55.18)
That's unique because it's like, what did they do? They found things around the house that they used and then they didn't have the money to make instruments or the means, know, whatever. So they started playing washboards because it makes a sound.

DW (28:13.744)
Pots, pans, the whole thing. And start kicking it off.

Damon (28:17.144)
Yeah.

Damon (28:20.782)
I feel like I've done that myself, but not that extreme, but I've tapped on my desk and the pens or something. don't know. I don't think that's going to become an instrument, but playing the washboard, that's definitely a skill, dude. But yeah, accordion, kick ass, the Creole, Zydeco accordion. But yeah, I think I found a good one with Rosé Liddette.

That's a festival band for sure.

Taj Williams (28:53.474)
Yep. I enjoyed it. So yeah. it's interesting because I felt like there was some bands that I found that did Zydeco without the accordion. But I feel like the accordion just adds to it. And what's weird is, well, not weird, but to me, it feels like you can get a lot more out of the accordion and Zydeco than you can in a German polka with the accordion.

I feel like. Are they because I thought they're just accordions, OK?

Damon (29:24.056)
They're different style accordions

DW (29:26.008)
Yes.

Damon (29:30.478)
I think there's like a lot more to it than just blowing air out of the thing. Like I think it's got like setup keys that are different, like the whole structure of it. I mean, it's literally an ozidaco accordion. So it has that special sound that comes out of it where polka's got like a different tune. Like if you listen to them side by side, you'll hear it. I think it's like, it's hard to describe. You know what mean?

Taj Williams (29:35.287)
Okay.

Taj Williams (29:39.232)
Okay.

Taj Williams (29:55.796)
Okay. I thought it was the keys they played in, but they're actually fully different instruments, that makes sense.

Damon (30:05.484)
I mean, they're accordions, but they're set up differently.

Taj Williams (30:10.029)
Gotcha.

Damon (30:11.756)
give it that sound. Yeah, the keys will sound differently, but it's tuned differently.

Taj Williams (30:17.762)
So it's similar to like a guitar versus a bass guitar that they're, okay, gotcha. That makes sense.

DW (30:21.316)
Yes.

Damon (30:22.68)
yeah, there's like many different types of like steel guitars sound different. And then you have like, you know, mandolins or something. Yeah.

Taj Williams (30:27.286)
Yeah, no, I got you.

Taj Williams (30:32.054)
that makes sense. In here, I thought all accordions were the same. They're not. Gotcha. That makes sense. But no, I enjoyed this assignment. It was good.

Damon (30:40.61)
Well...

Damon (30:55.778)
I gotta go to New Orleans now after their snow melts.

DW (30:58.928)
Hey, y'all want to go to Monica. Let's I'm dead serious. We can get a balcony. We can get our beads from Amazon and around the place or whatever. We can sit up, throw down, drink to your heart's content and be good.

Damon (31:06.51)
Before I die, we'll do this.

Damon (31:22.67)
Marty Grau is so packed. I have been to New Orleans, not for Marty Grau, but then Marty Grau, saw that here in Austin. the one I went to, like my friend got, I think there was like a fight that broke out and then my friend ended up getting maced. Like he was just eating his food and then like, it was craziness. And that was Austin's unequipped version of Marty Grau. But like New Orleans, they're on horses. Like the cops are all on horses and like,

They're like riding through the people and not that they don't have horses here too. think that might have been happening as well. Yeah.

DW (31:59.568)
They got horses on 6th street, you know, when they come in and do them. But yeah, they're riding through the people with it. But I will say just about the ones. First of all, it's 24 hours drinking. You can literally go off on a right age, which is like a Walgreens, 4 o'clock in the morning, grab a bottle and make it to what it do. They used to have it to where you could walk around in the mall with alcohol.

Damon (32:10.168)
Tell ya.

DW (32:23.056)
Yeah, that was that was different situations they had daiquiri spots set up all over the damn place. Second thing is if you go there and you know where you're going you're gonna have fun because it's a whole lot of different things to do there between the art district between just a whole bunch of places that you can go and see and venture and and take in the history of the area. Good, ugly, whole not it's all on point. Now Mardi Gras

Damon (32:23.19)
in the mall. That's fun.

DW (32:52.026)
That's a whole situation. grow out, I've been there, I went there last year too, but I've been there where literally sitting on bourbon, fight breaks out, shots go off, ambulance comes in, pull out the stretcher, pick up the body, put it on the cart, gone about their way.

Cops come in and say, okay, everybody get back to drinking, do what you gotta do. Come on, come on, Come on back, everybody have fun. It's okay, it's all good, we good. And I was just in shock, because shit all happened like within a five minute stretch. And it's like, you're telling me that you want us to go back partying? You want us to come back drinking? Like, I'm sobered up by now. I don't need to drink anymore. It's like two o'clock in the morning. What is really going on?

Taj Williams (33:31.512)
you

Damon (33:31.522)
Wow.

Taj Williams (33:37.272)
You

DW (33:45.744)
That's how they do things. It's like they need to y'all have your locals that have come through. If you ain't from the NL, you got to get all and all types of stuff and all actuality. It is a very fun place to be. Just keep your head on straight. Gambling there is cool. Going down the French quarter is is you know, that's a whole other scene. We got three and four story houses. We got eight and nine and ten bedrooms that you can rent out and it's all fun. It's all fun. I promise you.

Taj Williams (34:15.649)
okay.

DW (34:16.012)
And the food is to freaking die for. Literally. yeah.

Damon (34:24.11)
Well, we're going to have to make that happen. And maybe we'll record another show out there.

Taj Williams (34:24.266)
All right.

DW (34:27.182)
We need, yes, about to say we need to record a show in New Orleans. Yeah, we'll have fun.

Taj Williams (34:35.22)
Awesome. Yeah, no, for sure. Put on the calendar. So, okay.

Damon (34:36.16)
What are you

Damon (34:42.658)
You're gonna hit the bucket for us.

Taj Williams (34:46.306)
Sounds good. All right. Anything else?

DW (34:50.732)
No.

Taj Williams (34:52.012)
No? All right. Well, this has been a choice tracks. You can find this on our website of tracetracks.com or emails at tracetracks.gmail.com, both of those and with a Z. We ask that you please subscribe and listen to all past and future episodes. Let's go and sign out. I've been Taj.

Damon (35:10.635)
I'm Damon.

DW (35:12.576)
And I'm Dietrich and we're going to pick up the needle but y'all keep spinning those choice tracks. C'est la vie.