Creole String Beans

Creole String Beans: Shrimp Boots & Vintage Suits

by Chuck Schultz
February 27, 2013

Somewhere, Ernie K-Doe is smiling.On Shrimp Boots &Vintage Suits, the Creole String Beans uncork a letter-perfect recreation of “Here Come the Girls," a sexy, Allen Toussaint-penned K-Doe strut. Elsewhere, the group aces the swamp pop chestnut “Shirley," Lloyd Price's “Just Because" and Fats Domino's “Be My Guest." But the Creole String Beans is more than a throwback south Louisiana cover band. More than half of “Shrimp Boots & Vintage Suits" consists of original material written in the classic ...