I Will 6:51 (may not be suitable for radio or children)
Take me Back to Abita Springs 8:37
I Remember The Night Your Trailer Burned Down 8:46
Excuse Me Abuse Me 5:09 (may not be suitable for radio or children)
If I Had Been Elvis 4:56
I?ll Always Be Better Than You 4:45
On January 15, 2005, in a private residence, he recorded this set of eight songs. These songs were recorded in ?one take? in the same order as they appear on this disk; between songs Bobby took only short breaks. Before th... more »is recording session, Bobby had, for the most part, been away from the piano for 15 years. We are offering this disk to the public at the request of the many people who have heard of the genius of Bobby Lounge, but who may not have had a chance to see him perform.« less
On January 15, 2005, in a private residence, he recorded this set of eight songs. These songs were recorded in ?one take? in the same order as they appear on this disk; between songs Bobby took only short breaks. Before this recording session, Bobby had, for the most part, been away from the piano for 15 years. We are offering this disk to the public at the request of the many people who have heard of the genius of Bobby Lounge, but who may not have had a chance to see him perform.
CD Reviews
WAY PAST COOL!
Mark Howard | Austin, TX | 09/26/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"If you're from the deep south, or have spent time in the deep south, this is the album for you. Great piano playing and singing, with equal parts Jerry Lee Lewis and gospel singing if you can believe it! The imagery that Bobby Lounge conjures up makes me recall people and events from when I was a kid. This stuff is funny, irreverant, bitchy, cutting and smothered in magonolia rhythms. I only wish I could have seen Bobby Lounge in his portable iron lung at Jazz Fest this year! Go out and buy this CD today, or remember, "I'm is still got the hammer!"
Mark
Austin Riffs"
Lord Have Mercy
kathryn b | Crestone, CO | 12/03/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Reconnecting the roots of southern literary shamanism with the hottest flipping piano licks since Fats Waller, the music of Bobby Lounge, quite simply, rearranges your molecules. The Voice reaches down into your deepest Southern Strands and pulls out recongition, raw-ancestor-process and wild-booty shaking joy. Need some musical medicine for the post-katrina world? Get this cd, keep it close, play it often."
Down Home Extradinaire!!!!
Rennie Babington | Piedmont, CA | 11/07/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"As an amateur piano player of many, many years, I can say that this CD collection of songs is one of the most amazing I have ever heard. "Take Me Back to Abita Springs" is mind-bending and spell-binding!!. Bobby's left hand must have been "frozen" after over 8 minutes of continuous harddriving boogie woogie bass!! He is a true virtuouso."
"Hot", yet pure
Edmond Deboisblanc | Lafayette, LA | 10/16/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This recording is one of those milestone pieces - here was a guy in a self imposed exile for 20 years - who was persuaded to record in someone's living room a CD that has caught the whole piano blues community by storm. For a pianist to make his 'debut' to absolutely rave reviews in New Orleans - now that is something. This CD captures the spirit of an incredible pianist and one can only hope for more CD's in the future. I liked this CD because it sounds "hot" yet pure - somewhat like the early Louis Armstrong recordings or like the early Alan Lomax recordings of Ledbetter or even the early Dylan recordings. It is interesting that these recordings were done in "one take" and in the order as they appear on the CD.
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Essential Southern Soundtrack
Bill Tyler | 09/26/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Part Jerry Lee Lewis, part Randy Newman, wholly gothic and completely original, Bobby Lounges' 'I Remember the Night Your Trailer Burn't Down' is one for the books More Confederacy of Dunces than Absalom, Absalom!, this is the CD that Ignatius J. Reilly would have had on his I-Pod at the Lucky Dog. Tapping his feet to the barrelhouse rock and roll that Lounge offers up on his baby grand. Lounge fleshes out his songs and characters with a fully loaded brush of local color. He draws from the Southerners who choose to be more 'unique' than ordinary, more 'interesting' than safe because being 'eccentric' is the only 'normal' thing to do. 'Take me Back to Abita Springs' is a blistering homage of longing after a misguided effort to become a porn star in California. Nobody but Bobby Lounge can sing about picking up a snack box of Popeyes' Fried Chicken and have it represent the dysfunctional tension of the matriarchal South.
These are songs about characters that Lounge examines, extolls, forgives and ultimately loves because, in Lounges own words, 'I Will Always Be Better Than You". If this album were a glass of iced tea it would be sweetened, naturally, with extra sugar and a twist of lemon for bite. Own this record or go buy real estate on the Gulf Coast, either way, Lounges' soundtrack will blow you away.
NOTE: Don't let the "Parental Advisory" sticker fool you. There's' not a bad word on it, just 'unusual 'ones."
Track Listings (8) - Disc #1