The Deslondes (from the album Roll It Out

The Deslondes (from the album Roll It Out

The Deslondes (from the album Roll It Out available on New West Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
 
The Deslondes aren’t your typical New Orleans band. As a side note, there is no common sound to any New Orleans band, so, please, get out the notion of your head. Not everything in The Big Easy comes with horns and Mardi Gras bounce. Roll It Out, the latest from The Deslondes, is a melting pot of music, everything from Country Soul to Garage Roots with subtle hints of twang, The Deslondes idea of ‘the melting pot’ brings in influences from not only The Crescent City, but everywhere else the band has laid a head or hung a hat.
There’s the weeper of an opener with road tune flair in “Hold On Liza” while “Take Me Back” is a great splash of Roots Pop, Pop music continues in the skip-a-long and optimistic cut “I’ll Do It”. “Grand Junction” is another road cut that also moonlights as a dark murder ballad, “Pour Another Round” nods to the outsider twang of The Felice Brothers, and “Old Plank Road” is ripe for a front-porch pick. “Who Really Loses” is country R&B, “Go Out Tonight” is piano Blues with soaring pedal steel that gives it a nice dose of twang while The Deslondes drop some New Orleans boogie with “Mercury on Parade”.
The closer in J.J. Cales “Drifters Wife” is a solid cover, a cut that’s straight out and ready to score a drive through the vacant west. With five vocalists you get five different sounds, and that’s all good. Chalk this up for multiple year end lists thanks to its heaviness and headiness delivered in a Grass Roots package. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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