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Zydeco Funk Lif Briar? His Travelers Fee! The Music in Louisiana know how to have fun. The food is fun, and Mardi Gras is the greatest example c f anity on the planet. And, with all honesty, there's few things in this c r azy ol' world that are more fun than a good zydeco band. Zydeco is simply fun music. It's propulsive, jumping, rocking and... funky. Basically, zydeco makes you want to get up off your ass, no matter how cool a hipster you might be, and get all sweaty dancing. From the genre's humble beginnings with Roy Carrier and Clifton Chenier right on up to modern day giants like Buckwheat Zydeco and the late Beau Jocque, zydeco bands have been making booties shake in Louisiana, Texas and beyond. The latest edition to that long line of rump shakers is Lil' Bnan & The Zydeco Travelers. Representing Barrett Station, Texas (just outside of Houston), Lil' Brian (born Brian Terry) and his boys make some of the most infectious, high-energy and, of course, danceable zydeco to come along in quite a while. Like the best traditional zydeco bands, the Travelers rely on standard instrumentation like accordion and scrub boards as well as funky beats. They also incor porate some hard hip-hop rhythms in what Lil' Brian calls "Z-Funk," which owes as much to George Clinton as it does Clifton Chenier. Zydeco has its roots in the traditional music of Louisiana's colorful Cajun and Creole peoples, but it's spiced up with touches of funk and R&B. The name itself is a bastardization of an old tune "L'Haricots Sont Pas Sals" (The Snap Beans Aren't Salted). The early pioneers of this mainly style of music were greats like Chenier and Boozoo Chavis, and the genre grew enormously popular in the '90s with the success of Chubby Carrier, Beau Jocque and, particularly, Buckwheat Zydeco. In fact, it was Buckwheat (AKA Stanley Dural) who inspired - the young Brian Terry to take up the accordion and zydeco music. The young musician picked up the instrument at 13 and was soon befriended and encouraged by Dural. Terry f ormed the Zydeco Travelers in the early '90s and released a pair of albums on Rounder, 1995's Fresh and 1997's Z-Funk. The band's latest effort. Funky Nation, is Lil' Brian & The Zydeco Travelers' most energetic effort to date. Filled with hard-core funk mixed into a traditional zydeco stew, the resulting s.jnd is quite a potent gumbo. The Travelers are reminiscent of Beau Jocque and the Zydeco Hi-Rollers and Buckwheat Zydeco, but not as raw and primal as the former nor as laid-back as the latter. The band takes zydeco into a new area with its indoctrination of hip-hop sensibilities, but at the end of the day all that really matters is how much they can get dancers to sweat. The band's performance at Lucy's during this year's South By Southwest conference in Austin leaves no doubt in anyone's mind about its power on-stage. "There are no limits to this music," Terry says. "1 love the roots of zydeco, but listen to the music that's happening today, and my music is the way I feel the music today." Matt Thompson People organized mass ir WHO: Ul' Brian & The Zydeco Travelers WHERE: Chip's Roadhouse, Winder (770) 307-2840 WHEN: Friday, August 4, 9 p.m. HOW MUCH: $10 VIDEO LIBRARY $ 1°° Rentals! (VHS & DVD!) 5 DAY RENTAL Biggest Store in Athens (12,000 Movies). FUN FACT: II you watched 3 movies a day, every day for 10 years, you [still wouldn't have seen . 4. all of our movies. 4052 Lexington Highway at Gaines School Road (East Side) 543-1287 NAOT SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES! rti s m v-AARKET* INFORMATION IS OUR #1 PRODUCT Corner of Broad & Pulaski • Mon.-Sat. 9:30am-7pm Over fifty 32 oz. juices priced from $1.99 - $2.99 Many new products which are convenient and healthy. MUSIC for Less ^2:rrrr~i-~ :n'3sr.-s.?. ! .rror. i^TTi^rr~~ ~ f r.rr.- ;rr, A FULL SERVICE USED INSTRUMENT SHOP EmmpEEl EffiBQafcKlSBl ATHENS' LARGEST & BEST SEUECDON OF USED EQUIPMENT M 613-6656 ^ (&^T_^de) 136 E C | ayton st * authorized IV dealer Next to DT’s & Roly Poly Fender • Epiphone • Gibson • Peavey • Olympian • Tacomi ;./ ■ - • - | • ■ - • - - f ■ — i ,~w*>'*** r *''* r ~' GO TO WWW.40WATT.COM FOR DETAILS AND FREE PASSES EVERY DAY! 285 W. Washington St. Athens, GA • Call 549-7871 for Show Updates We serve Righteous Juices THURSDAY. AUGUST 3 OSTRICH doors open at 10pm three dollars FRIDAY. AUGUST 4 FIVE-EIGHT , ENON • 1D7\H0 The 7\ZUFIe"R7\Y doors open at 9pm six dollars -advance SATURDAY. AUGUST 5 TFfANS 7\M KRUSH GfRlS doors open at 11:30pm six dollars advance (PRIVATE INVITE ONLY BEFORE 11:30pm) MONDAY. AUGUST 7 TUESDAY; AUGUST 8 CLOSED WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 9 EXF6 2000 I AM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER VELMA • EASY SLEEPING FLIES DJ ME DJ YOU 8-TRACK GORILLA * JAPANCAKES doors open at 8pm eight dollars MUSIC AT 8:30 SHARP! cgcsnxmBg© ©snug 8/26 POSIES ACOUSTIC SET 9/22 yO LA TENGO/VERSUS 9/26 GET UP KIDS * Tickets Available Now at Big Shot & Lo yo yo AUGUST 2, 2000 FLAGPOLE ED