A Preview Of The 2000 Album
Vu-Du Menz
Corey Harris & Henry Butler

(Thanks to Alligator Records for Sound Clips)


keys that Henry Butler dances across. On the collaborative tracks, which make up most of the album, their two instruments leave no room for others. They're tight as yarn, weaving together like a Mardi Gras Indian headdress. Each also makes solo performances. They've been compared to great partnerships like Tampa Red & Georgia Tom,

  This impressive album assures that New Orleans music will live strong and healthy into the next generation. A collaboration between a couple of once upstarts, now stalwarts of the new roots-music generation, this is good-time music. Corey Harris plays slide-steel guitar and about 90 other styles, slipping his strings between the 88 piano

but this suggests too much of a historical sound; Harris and Butler are thoroughly modern. Comparing them to Professor Longhair and Snooks Eaglin is accurate in spirit, but Vü-Dü Menz is so fun, no background is needed to enjoy it; even Martians would shake their hips to this much swing. --Robert Gordon

Vü-Dü Menz Sample Tracks
Let 'Em Roll
If I Was Your Man
Sugar Daddy
There's No Substitute For Love
King Cotton
Mulberry Row
Down Home Livin'
Voodoo Man
Song Of The Pipelayer
If You Let A Man Kick You Once
L'esprit De James
Shake What Your Mama Gave You
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
What Man Have Done
Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You?

"Harris plays and sings the blues with joy, deep feeling, and raw Delta grit. Butler is an overwhelming piano virtuoso and ferociously expressive singer" - Chicago Tribune

Corey Harris Website
Henry Butler Website
More L.M. Tracks From Telarc
Alligator Records
Vü-Dü Menz Album Info


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