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Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble

"Taylor may be the freshest Zydeco act to come along since Beau Jocque" - The Times of Acadiana

"Country Boy, or the P-Diddy of Zydeco?" - Faith & Soul News

Born and raised in southwest Louisiana, Curley Taylor has been around music all his life. When he was 16, Curley started playing drums in his father's band, Jude Taylor & His Burning Flames, whose repertoire included Louisiana blues and soul as well as Zydeco.

By the time he was 25, Curley had played drums for many of Louisiana's most legendary performers, including C.C. Adcock, Steve Riley, John Hart, "Lil" Bob of the Lollipops, his guitarist-uncle, "Lil Buck" Senegal [who will be playing at the Waterfront on Sunday with Buckwheat Zydeco], C.J. Chenier, and Geno Delafose. During his several-year-stint with Delafose, Curley took up the accordion, practicing while on the road, and found time to produce his first solo project, Country Boy. That recording received raves not only from the Zydeco fans. The Japanese magazine, Blues & Soul Records, called it "the best new Zydeco recording in recent years…an amazing masterpiece and an energetic account of where Taylor is wanting to lead modern Zydeco."