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Creole String Beans: Shrimp Boots & Vintage Suits
by Chuck Schultz
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 ...
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