C. C. Adcock – Lafayette Marquis

C.C. Adcock can call himself the Lafayette Marquis if he likes, but “the Prince of Lafayette” might be a more suitable title. Like Prince, the Louisiana native titles his tunes with numbers — “All 4 The Betta”, for instance. Like Prince, Adcock plays electric guitar to a dominant dance beat. And, like Prince, he delivers music that is love u sexy, lord a mighty.

Unlike Prince, Lafayette’s marquis has swamp mud on his cowboy boots, Creole on his breath and cypress fronds dangling from his head. The overall mood is intensely passionate, hot and humid, and right for listening to under open windows.

The hot grease gets spilled from the get-go with “Y’All’d Think She’d Be Good 2 Me”, featuring a tribal drumbeat under a couple layers of vocals, blues guitar and something Adcock calls “Egyptian violin.” “Stealin’ All Day”, one of the last tracks produced by the late Jack Nitzsche, is an example of Bayou blues rockabilly. “I Love You” brings together Cajun duck-call accordion and a stuttering dance beat leading to a sliding, churning finale. The tremolo-drenched closing track, “Between The Lies”, the only mid-tempo ballad, is perfectly timed for a session of afterglow.