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Artist : Le Roux
Country : USA
Release : Louisiana's Le Roux
Year : 1978
Genre : Hard Rock
File Type : mp3 320
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Their 1978 Capitol press release read: "LeRoux takes its name from the Cajun French term for the thick and hearty gravy base that's used to make a gumbo." Louisiana's LeRoux (the first album) was a musical gumbo that blended various instruments and arrangements for some spicy, mouth-watering pop-rock. Using blues, R&B, funk, jazz, rock, and Cajun as their base, their Southern anthem "New Orleans Ladies," voted Song of the Century by Gambit Magazine, simmered with the laid-back feel of the "Big Easy," evoking images of Bourbon Street and the bayou. That song, together with their smash hit "Nobody Said It Was Easy," brings LeRoux daily airplay from Washington, DC to Baton Rouge, and they remain cult heroes to this day.
The act began to gel in 1975 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as The Jeff Pollard Band. They came into their own in 1977, touring the United States and Africa with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown through an arrangement with the US State Department. The group's big break came when Leon Medica, the band's producer and one of its founders, presented a demo tape to Paul Tannen at Screen Gems-EMI while doing a session in Nashville and making trips to Colorado to contribute bass parts to a Dirt Band album at William McEuen's Aspen Recording Society Studios.
McEuen, Tannen, and Attorney John Frankenheimer helped Medica secure a recording contract for the band with Capitol Records. Renamed "Louisiana's LeRoux," they recorded two albums, both produced by Medica, of Louisiana-flavored pop-rock (their eponymous debut and Keep The Fire Burning), and a third, Up, which saw them shift styles to accommodate Jai Winding's more mainstream production