Jacob Leland, Jack Pritchett, Luke "Trombone Slim" Huddleston--horns
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Invloeden
Willie Bobo, Mongo Santamaria, Joe Cuba, Joe Bataan, Cool Benny and His Sounds, Joey Pastrana, Jack Constanzo, Pucho and His Latin Soul Brothers, Ray Barretto, Raphie Martinez, Ricardo Ray, Jimmy Castor, Ray Rodriguez and his Orchestra, Professor Longhair, the Rebirth Brass Band
Klinkt als
Corn bread and chili beans; fried neck bones and some home fries; Summertime in Spanish Harlem before you was born, dude.
"One of my favorite new singles to spin out has been the appropriately named "Brand New Dance" by New Orleans' Po-Boy-Citos. I wrote about the group a year ago and they've been steadily building their name and catalog and this new 7" is a real gem (hint: they need to make it easier to buy other than their show!)
"Brand New Dance" combines two big hits from the South - mostly obviously "Tighten Up by Texas' Archie Bell and then they slide in a little "Check Your Bucket" for the hometown NOLA hero, Eddie Bo (there's also a touch of Wardell Quezergue/Jean Knight with that intro which sounds adapted from "Mr. Big Stuff"). The mash-up is a fun slice of instrumental soul that has yet to fail me in the club. (The B-side, "Trinidad" is a slick, funky guajira for the Latin heads) --Oliver Wang, soul-sides.com
Funk and Latin rhythms fuse together with Creole soul to create a satisfying feast for the ears that gets better with every listen. Their music is like a tasty gumbo of boogaloo flavor and some Louisiana zest thrown in for good measure. --PoV Magazine
"New Orleans' premier (well, only) Latin soul band, Los Po-Boy-Citos, combines gumbo and menudo, Willie Tee and Willie Bobo, Spanish Harlem and Spanish moss. Seeking to scoop the rhythmic Cuban influence from the melting pot of New Orleans music and place it at the forefront of its sounds, the group plays raucous, horn-heavy Latin boogaloo straight from Uptown, combining obscure vintage Latin soul covers with spiced-up versions of New Orleans R&B and funk classics."
--Gambit Weekly
“This CD has become one of my personal favorites and is perfect for chilling out on beautiful NOLA day, or setting up some fun background music to get the party started. Remember the name, as this band is definitely one to keep your eye on.” – Where Y’At
“The results are as unstuck in time as any Dap-Kings project . . . Los Po-Boy-Citos successfully evoke a version of Latin dance music from days gone by.”—OffBeat
“Polished and deceptively easy on the ears, New Orleans Latin Soul gets better the more I hear it” – Home of the Groove
"Their conceit is intriguing - take NOLA's funk/soul heritage (itself Cuban-influenced) and then throw in an East Harlem vibe and see what cooks up . . . I'm slightly in awe of any band that knows about - let alone covers - such obscure-r fare such as "Danzon Boogaloo, arguably the very first "official" Latin boogaloo ever record, by Ricardo Ray, or Cool Benny's "Wobble Cha" . . . in a serendipitous way, Los Po-Boy-Citos create that missing link between the jazz and Latin boogaloo styles."
--Oliver Wang, soul-sides.com http://soul-sides.com/2008/08/pick-six-nuevo-latin-sabor.html
"Best Latin band in New Orleans!!!"
--Youtube comment
"I heard you guys and I thought, 'Is that Michael Skinkus?'"
--Some dude at the 2007 Po-Boy Festival
• 2008 OffBeat Best of the Beat Winners
• 2008 Gambit Weekly Best of the Big Easy Nominees
Los Po-Boy-Citos formed in the fall of 2006 in a Garden District living room in New Orleans, Louisiana, a city with a longstanding connection to music from Latin America. Armed with crates of boogaloo records and surrounded by New Orleans music in the streets and in the clubs, in a city whose very makeup is mixed up like gumbo, it seemed natural to cook up Spanish Harlem Latin funk and New Orleans soul. The result was Los Po-Boy-Citos, New Orleans Latin Soul.
After the band went through several incarnations and cut its teeth in bars and clubs, on outdoor stages, and once on the sidewalk on Frenchmen Street, it went into the studio to work with veteran NOLA music producer Mark Bingham on its debut cd. New Orleans Latin Soul was released in October of 2008.
Named OffBeat Magazine's Best Emerging Band of 2008, Los Po-Boy-Citos followed their debut's success with a year at clubs and festivals, then switched to analog! Their new single is a 45 rpm record, on slick black vinyl. On soul-sides.com, Oliver Wang reports that it has never failed him in the clubs.
Los Po-Boy-Citos plan to boogaloo in New Orleans for some time.
Los Po-Boy-Citos' recordings are available online through Louisiana Music Factory!
http://www.louisianamusicfactory.com/showoneprod.asp?ProductID=6164
For booking contact Jacob Leland
(415) 971-3803
lospoboycitos@gmail.com
Y'all sounded great at Festivus, and I was able to get right up front for this video of "Jive Samba". Andrew Ward's intro is uniquely N'Awlins. See you around! http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=8OojbopoA3c
Thanks for the add. I heard you on WWOZ a few weeks ago, and look forward to seeing y'all at PoBoy Fest. By the way, Matt does a great job on American Routes!
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