New Crawfish Boil CD!

Posted by Doug

Whew!  It’s been busy ya’ll!  Our clients have been throwing work at us at a pretty brisk pace and that has diverted our attention from more interesting pursuits like posting blog content and sending these emails that at least a few of you read.  But, a couple of things have happened recently that merit my personally drafting an email to our friends.  So, what’s the haps?

Well, we finally completed production of the CD from the 6^th Annual DGA Family and Friends Crawfish Boil and it will be arriving in your snail mail box soon.  If you don’t get it, please let me know.  Now, this is the CD from 2013, not the boil we just had in March of this year – that’s how far behind we are.  But this one was worth the wait.  The title is High Water Friends, which derives from the fact that our traditional venue, Friends Coastal Restaurant, became a little less “coastal” and a little more “off shore” when a hurricane blew through in 2012.  Friends is no more, literally, although we expect it to rise again in more elegant form someday. 

A high water friend is someone who picks you in their pirogue when the water rises and takes you to dry land, so we celebrated the boil last year at an alternative location – a barge on the Tchefuncte River.  The food was good as always and the music was great.  The weather was not so good and the venue was a little dreary.  But, in The Big Easy the party never ends.  On the CD you will find a track by David Rogan entitled “Hurricane” that explains it all.

Speaking of my good friend Davis Rogan, he has a KICKSTARTER campaign up right now that I would like to encourage all of you to consider sponsoring.  Davis has become the house band for the DGA crawfish boil and always hangs around after his set, sucking (crawfish) heads, telling lies and drinking whiskey.  Believe me when I tell you it’s worth the trip to the crawfish boil just to meet Davis. 

Davis is a New Orleans native and has been playing music locally and worldwide for over twenty years.  Would you believe he was once artist in residence in the Loire valley in France?  It’s true!  Since 2001, he’s been performing under the band name DAVIS.  From 2006 to 2013, Davis worked with David Simon on the HBO series Treme.  The lead character, Davis McAlary (Steve Zahn), better known as DJ Davis, was based pretty much entirely on Davis Rogan.  What most people don’t know is that all of the songs DJ Davis performed on Treme were written by Davis Rogan and performed by his band, with Steve Zahn murdering the lyrics.  As Davis put it to me, “my songs are my children and Steve Zahn is a child molester.”  Davis is raising money to produce his 6^th record and I know you are going to want one.  I will be an Executive Producer on the record and you, too, can help.  If you sponsor his KICKSTARTER you can get the full version of all of the Treme songs DJ Davis performed in Treme!  And, of course, there is a lot more bling you can get for the right price.  So come on and pull a $20 out of your wallet. The KICKSTARTER ends soon, so act NOW

The other really important news about the crawfish boil CD is a bit sad.  Most of the songs on the CD were performed by Warren Prejean and the Zydeco Rhythm and Blues Band.  The set starts with an amazing cover of the famous B.B. King hit, The Thrill is Gone with electric guitar riffs you won’t believe happened on a barge down by the river.  It goes on to a funky version of Money (That’s What I Want) that will make you smile and ends with a Warren Prejean original, Somebody Told Me.  It was a great performance and you will really enjoy it, but the sad news is that Warren Prejean died several months after the boil.  The CD is dedicated to his memory and I promise the last track will bring tears to your eyes at the loss of a great musician and a better person.