The Wild Magnolias: Washington "Bubba" Scott, James Smothers, Lawrence 'Crip' Adams, Johnnie 'Quarter Moon' Tobias, Leonard "Gate" Johnson, Gator June, Monk Boudreaux, Theodore "Bo" Dollis (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Fird 'Snooks' Ealin (guitar); Earl Turbinton (alto saxophone); Willie Tee (ARP synthesizer); Julius Farmer (bass instrument); Larry Panna (drums); Norwood Johnson (bass drum); Alfred "Uganda" Roberts (congas); Moses Hogan Singers.
New Orleans legends the Wild Magnolias released their second album, THEY CALL US WILD, in Europe in 1975, but it didn't come out in the States until the '90s, when the band finally went national. Today they're thought of as an old-school Mardis Gras party band, but these early recordings reveal a greasier, murkier sound that owes something to the swamp-funk shadings of late-'60s/early-'70s Dr. John, as well as the slightly jazzy West Coast funkateers in War.
Professional Reviews
Living Blues (p.58) - "[S]ome of the funkiest sounds ever to come out of the Crescent City....It works quite nicely when viewed as vintage New Orleans funk."
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