{"id":126,"date":"2014-10-14T00:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T00:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=126"},"modified":"2015-11-10T23:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:24:33","slug":"new-orleans-suspects-ouroboros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS: Ouroboros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new-orleans-suspects-ouroborus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new-orleans-suspects-ouroborus-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"new orleans suspects - ouroborus\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new-orleans-suspects-ouroborus-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new-orleans-suspects-ouroborus-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new-orleans-suspects-ouroborus-259x260.jpg 259w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new-orleans-suspects-ouroborus-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new-orleans-suspects-ouroborus.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>\u201cWant to hear a Supergroup? Catch the Suspects\u201d &#8211; Jambands.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Funkier than the Radiators, more rockin\u2019 than the Neville Brothers, jazzier than James Brown, and able to leap tall levees in a single bound, the New Orleans Suspects ARE truly a Supergroup. Skeptics need only survey the Suspect\u2019s stupendous resumes:<\/p>\n<p>Drummer \u201cMean\u201d Willie Green\u2019s unique attack defined funk drumming for a quarter of a century with the Neville Brothers; sax player Jeff Watkins was James Brown\u2019s musical director for twelve years; guitarist\/vocalist Jake Eckert hails from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band; keyboardist\/vocalist CR Gruver was a jam monster in Outformation; and Reggie Scanlan was The Radiators\u2019 bassist for their 33-1\/3-year run, after backing legends James Booker and Professor Longhair.<\/p>\n<p>The latest evidence of the Suspects acumen is their new release \u201cOuroboros,\u201d named for the ancient icon depicting a serpent eating its own tail. For the Suspects the Ouroboros symbolizes their continual recreation of New Orleans music \u2013 an inextinguishable force always being renewed and reborn. Indeed \u201cOuroboros\u201d is a masterful, modern compendium of New Orleans stylings. It has fever-inducing funk, irresistible R&#038;B rhythms, Longhair rhumbas, dancing-in-the-street second lines, jazzy soul-drenched horns, mind-melting swamp hoodoo, and feet-don\u2019t-fail-me-now Carnivale music, all performed by a band in a class all their own &#8211; five musicians with the experience and versatility rivaling any band that New Orleans has ever produced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/ouroboros\/id923086111?uo=4\" target=\"itunes_store\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;background:url(https:\/\/linkmaker.itunes.apple.com\/htmlResources\/assets\/en_us\/\/images\/web\/linkmaker\/badge_itunes-lrg.png) no-repeat;width:110px;height:40px;@media only screen{background-image:url(https:\/\/linkmaker.itunes.apple.com\/htmlResources\/assets\/en_us\/\/images\/web\/linkmaker\/badge_itunes-lrg.svg);}\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ouroboros-New-Orleans-Suspects\/dp\/B00NGETSV4\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1424654510&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=new+orleans+suspects\" target-\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/amazon-button-02-e1424654609347.png\" alt=\"amazon-button-02\" width=\"129\" height=\"40\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWant to hear a Supergroup? Catch the Suspects\u201d &#8211; Jambands.com Funkier than the Radiators, more rockin\u2019 than the Neville Brothers, jazzier than James Brown, and able to leap tall levees in a single bound, the New Orleans Suspects ARE truly a Supergroup. Skeptics need only survey the Suspect\u2019s stupendous resumes: Drummer \u201cMean\u201d Willie Green\u2019s unique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,5,3],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues","category-catalogue","category-features","tag-new-orleans-suspects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5O8RF-22","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}