Steadfast New Orleans musician Ernie Vincent releases new album ‘Original Dap King’ | Music | Gambit Weekly

Ernie Vincent has expended decades instructing other persons how to enjoy the music he’s composed. As a bandleader, the mainstay New Orleans guitarist and singer knows how to keep his band, The Prime Notes, on observe. So when the shoe was on the other foot and it was another musician training Vincent how to engage in a number of new tunes, he relished the working experience.

“I explained, ‘Man, I’m constantly instructing someone else how to do a song that I create, and for the 1st time in my lifetime, any person is guiding me through a tune.’ Which is the first time which is transpired to me,” Vincent states. “But I did not understand, it was less difficult than I imagined.”

People new music are on Vincent’s new album, “Original Dap King,” which is now obtainable on Alabama-dependent label Cornelius Chapel Information. The file title alludes to Vincent’s influential 1972 funk strike, “Dap Walk” — and to late soul singer Sharon Jones’ backing band, which identified its name in the strike tune, Vincent says.

Vincent recorded “Original Dap King” in spring 2021 at Dial Back again Sound in Drinking water Valley, Mississippi, with co-producers Bronson Tew and Matt Patton. It was Patton, who performs bass in the Southern rock band Generate-By Truckers, that confirmed Vincent how to perform the music he wrote for the new report.

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Vincent, Patton and Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Jimbo Mathus contributed to the originals on the history, and there are variations of “Seven Sisters,” Dennis Binder’s “Early Times” and “Black” by steel band Neurosis. Mathus is bandleader on the album and plays piano, and alongside with drummer Tew and bassist Patton, “Original Dap King” attributes guitarist Taylor Hollingsworth, horn player Hank West, strings player Jamison Hollister and backing vocalist AJ Haynes, who performs with Seratones.

Vincent easily flies through a selection of genres, from funk and brass-packed soul to blues, rock ’n’ roll and even a very little psychedelia on the 10-song album. It is reflective of his 50-additionally year occupation enjoying stages in New Orleans and across Louisiana and further than.

Vincent was born in the 1940s close to Thibodaux, and the household moved to New Orleans when he was young. He picked up the guitar in his late teenagers and fell in with drummer Herlin Delpit.

“He requested me and mentioned, ‘Ernie, you a guitar player?’ I mentioned, ‘I’m mastering.’ And he questioned me how numerous tracks I realized, and I said, ‘I know three music: just one Muddy Waters and two Jimmy Reeds. Which is all I know,’” Vincent recalls. “He explained, ‘Shit, which is loads.’”

The to start with gig Vincent performed was at a club identified as Shangri-La in Bridge Metropolis, but he was shortly becoming a member of Delpit at juke joints across Acadiana and southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, participating in as Li’l Ernie and the Alpines. For the duration of that time, a Meridien, Mississippi, musician named Po’ Will taught Vincent how to perform the blues — and enjoy moonshine.

Soon after near to a yr dwelling in Mississippi, Vincent moved again to New Orleans and took courses by means of William Houston Sr.’s School of Songs. He discovered to read through and write music, which helped Vincent and his new band, The Top Notes, land a large amount of function playing balls and events and backing functions like Mathilda Jones, Solomon Burke, Ernie K-Doe and many important rhythm and blues musicians coming as a result of New Orleans. And Vincent hosted Sunday gigs — which generally showcased K-Doe — close to town all through the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.

Vincent claims he’s penned additional than 200 music about the years, and his “Dap Walk” — a name influenced by the distinctive stroll utilised by the bassist in Vincent’s band at the time — is a funk classic. “Original Dap King” showcases the knowledge and skills of a steadfast New Orleans musician.

“A whole lot of people do not know a lot about me because I have not had a file out in a while,” Vincent has claimed in the past. “I’ve generally been the sort of guy who likes to work in the qualifications supporting some others fairly than drawing focus to myself.”

Obtain “Original Dap King” on streaming platforms and at corneliuschapelrecords.com.