Audio Clips

SNEAK PREVIEW!!!
From our latest CD, Gumbohead. To hear all 13 smokin' tracks in their entirety, pick it up at one of our gigs, or buy online at CDBaby.com!

•"Stir The Pot" -- our friend Brian Casserly's tribute to making filé gumbo (yeah you right)

•"Spy Boy" -- our own Ron Sikes wrote this funky numbah, featuring a full horn section

•"Hot Sauce Boogie" -- look out, 'Fess! Tom Martin plays some original barrelhouse-style piano!

•"Uncle Bud" -- a little traditional-style zydeco for your dancing pleasure


***Listen to a KDHX "Local Artist Spotlight" about Gumbohead and our new CD!***
Hosted by Matt Brinkmann. Used by permission of KDHX, 88.1 FM St. Louis.

Scroll down to see VIDEO of "The Making Of Gumbohead"

From our 2004 EP Get You Some:

•"Cissy Strut"

•"Church"

 

 

From our 2001 live CD (now out of print)
Live And Cookin':

• "Congo Square"

• "Crawfishin'"

Live Clips

From various live shows:

• "Red Beans" -- our take on one of Professor Longhair's signature songs

•"Creole Two-Step" -- put on your zydeco dancin' shoes!

•"Just Kissed My Baby" -- classic Meters funk, live at the World Freefall Convention, Rantoul, IL



From KDHX's River City Acoustic, our first-ever acoustic show:

•"Nuevo Boogaloo" -- a little Latin instrumental from the Iguanas

•"Pocket Change" -- unplugged version of the Wild Magnolias tune



From our performance at the premiere of the film Make It Funky at The Pageant, 12/05:

•"Blues For Ben" -- featuring Nathan, Drew and Adam from the Dogtown Allstars, our former guitar player Pete Klein, percussionist Matt Henry, plus an all-star horn section -- Brian Casserly, Ben Reece, Charlie Halloran, Keith Moyer and Matt Brinkmann. There were a lot of folks onstage; if we forgot anyone, our apologies!

 

Video

Best Of The STL
January 16, 2008

We had a lot of fun as the house band on a local talk show during their Mardi Gras-themed programming. If you didn't get to see it live, check it out now!

• Show opening

• "Mardi Gras Mambo"

•Interview

•Show closing

The Making Of Gumbohead

Enjoy an inside look at what went on at Smith-Lee Productions in early March 2006, as we laid down basic tracks for our new CD under the guidance of producer Jack Petracek. Featuring the additional horn acompaniment of Brian Casserly, Ben Reece and John Wolf.

•The Maplewood Sessions

•More In-Studio Silliness

•The Horns Come To Play

Other Video Clips:

•Second Line at the '07 Mayor's Ball -- a montage from our Mardi Gras march with the Mayor.

• "Today In St. Louis," 9/21/06 -- We were outside the KSDK window at 5:30 a.m. to help promote our appearance at the Old Webster Jazz Festival. And we got to banter with Art and Jennifer...which is always nice.

•"Faust Park Montage" -- we love playing in the park -- any park!

•"Fox 2 In The Morning" -- with a very odd intro from host John Pertzborn.

•"Para Donde Vas" -- at The Pageant, 12/16/05 (featuring Pete Klein on guitar, Ben Reece on sax, Matt Henry on percussion and The Big Man behind the drum kit)

• "Ooh-Ooh-Pah-Doo" -- at The Pageant, 12/16/05 -- our version of the Jessie Hill classic, with special guest Tom "Papa" Ray, KDHX DJ extraordinaire, on vocals and harmonica.

•"Josephine C'est Pa Ma Femme " -- at The Pageant, 12/16/05 -- we hope Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco, would like the way we perform one of his signature tunes.

•"Red Beans" -- at the 2004 Purple Haze Ball at the Casa Loma (with Brian Casserly and Dan Smith on trumpet)