Blue Orleans is (L to R): Mike Helton, Dave Learned, Paul Matthews, Bunny Rodina, Mike Roberts, and Vaughn Cowden.
If you’re gonna play zydeco music, you better love it. That’s true for all the members of Lawrence’s Blue Orleans — none of whom actually hail from the Big Easy. The group’s gumbo of zydeco, rock and roll, blues, reggae, and Caribbean sounds is pure good-time music, easily washed down with a couple stiff drinks on a warm summer night.
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The Big Greasy: An interview with Blue Orleans
Blue Orleans' gumbo of zydeco, rock and roll, blues, reggae, and Caribbean music is pure good-time music, easily washed down with a couple stiff drinks on a warm summer night. Members Mike Roberts, Paul Matthews, and Dave Learned visited our podcast studio with a copy of the group’s album “Red ...
The lineage that begat Blue Orleans includes ’80s and ‘90s staples like Baghdad Jones, Caribe, Common Ground, The L.A. Ramblers, and Blue Condition – bands that could pack The Bottleneck on any given Friday night. Now that most of the members have kids and mortgages, they’ve mellowed out a little bit. Get a couple Natty Lights in ‘em, however, and they’ll loosen up with friendly convo about cougars and the smell of birth (“It’s not something you could make a scratch and sniff out of…”).
Blue Orleans members Mike Roberts, Paul Matthews, and Dave Learned visited our podcast studio with a copy of the group’s album “Red Hot!” and three decades worth of anecdotes from the Lawrence music scene. The band will perform Saturday evening at the Replay Lounge and August 5 at the Douglas County Fair.
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