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Many thanks to Karissa Bailey of "Great American Talent" for the mp3 you are hearing, song and for her input.
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Hearing Eddy Raven for the first time, was like hearing Mystery Train
by Elvis in 1954. "I know better" was a rough mix recording,
without much in the way of production, and released on "La Louisiane"
Records in the mid '60s. It wasn't his first recording, but it was
the first time I noticed him. Not that I was captured by the
dominant instrument, a keyboard organ that was muffled and redundant;
no other instrument was recognizable. Yes, the only feature of
that record that I have never been able to shake, was, like the early
Elvis stuff, one solid, magnificent voice. So what else mattered? The Beatles were hot, and this was an American expression of that Mersey style, but no Beatle ever had a voice like that one. As the years passed, I stayed on the heels of this magnificent artist just waiting for him to be noticed by the world outside Louisiana. Yea, Eddy was one of the early Swamp Rockers that helped shape Rock'n'Roll into something solid and never-ending. Jimmy Clanton, Cookie and the Cupcakes, Johnny Allen, Tommy McClain, T.K. Hulin, John Fred, Dale & Grace and Rusty & Doug(Kershaw), are just a few of the names in Eddy Raven's Musical graduating class, but few have ever made it to his league, and none have been able to sustain like Eddie. From the turn of the century Living In Black And White album, "Cowboy's Don't Cry", still manages to stir a drop of moisture or two to my weathered old eyes, and "She's Playing Hard to Forget", lingers in my memory like a warm and friendly old ghost. "Who do you know in California" is a country classic, along with a slew of other award winning hits like: "I should have Called" and "Thank God For Kids". BUT-and notice, that's a darn big but - "I Know Better" will always be my favorite, because that's the first time I ever heard Eddy Raven, and I definitely remember exclaiming to my WLOX Radio crew: "Whoa! That Koonass* is gonna be a star!" So, sit back and listen, and tell me you don't agree. *Koonass is a term reserved affectionately for south Louisianians of Acadian (Cajun) French descent. |
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