I know "of" CC Adcock and have seen him onstage a couple of times. He plays Jazzfest every year, I think, as part of the same "swamp-pop all-star" aggregation, and also appeared as part of the house band at a tribute to Fats Domino shortly after Katrina which featured a long list of superb pianists taking turns playing Fats classics.

My impression ~ which may be wrong ~ is that CC lives elsewhere in Louisiana and justs pops into N.O. occasinoally for a gig or two.

Waddon Pete, glad you're enjoying 'OZ. I refer to it fairly often, and sometime think folks hereabouts might be getting sick of me on this topic; after postitg the above, I felt a little bit guilty at perhaps "hijacking" a thread on what's really a whole different topic. But, anyway, if I can recruit one "convert" at a time, every once in a while, I'm glad ~ for you!

Is "Freak Folk" the same as, or closely related to, the "Psych Folk" under discussion in another thread also begun today? Either label, or both, would once have intrigued me; I would have thought any such entity would be right down my alley.

But now that I's (gasp!) sixty, I'm thinking that it's all probably just angry and noisy, and something I could do without. The anger I understand ~ there's plenty enough in the world around us that makes me angry too ~ but I no longer feel the need to be reminded.

Kat, on your recommendation I'll give a listen to Devandra whatizname. (My first reaction was to assume that Devandra was a girl's name; guess I'm wrong again!)