Coco Robicheaux

Louisiana bluesman Coco Robicheaux is no stranger towards the blues, either musically or elsewhere. He’s been playing the blues the majority of his existence, fronting his personal music group when he was 13 years of age, playing Bourbon Road just 2 yrs later on, and inking an archive deal around age 18. Appears like clean sailing, nonetheless it hasn’t been therefore for the musician. He experienced a broken when a car struck him, and his insufficient health insurance delivered him to a charity medical center. In severe discomfort, he waited a lot more than a day beside a gunshot sufferer in an crisis room. The knowledge offered him a firsthand take a look at what a huge segment of the populace experiences due to insufficient affordable medical health insurance, and it strengthened his solve to accomplish something to greatly help. He could be among the presented volunteer contributors within the Compact disc Obtain You a Healin’, a fundraising task whose product sales will donate to the procedure of the brand new Orleans Music artists’ Medical center housed in medical Sciences Middle at LSU. Showing up with Robicheaux around the funk disk are Maria Muldaur, the Funky Meters, Luther Kent, and Dr. John, amongst others. The album’s lively concept centers each monitor on an integral part of your body or a health and Robicheaux added “Louisiana Medication Man.” Also included are “Rockin’ Pneumonia” from the Cool Meters and “Discomfort in my own Heart” from your Gyptians, amongst others songs. Through the ’60s in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Robicheaux helped set up a free of charge health medical center with another civic-minded team that counted among its users vocalist Janis Joplin. Given birth to Curtis John Arceneaux in 1947 in Ascension Parish, LA, Robicheaux was the oldest kid of four given birth to to Virginia and Herman Arceneaux. He produced an archive in 1965 for Mississippi label JB, but didn’t record any longer until the middle-’90s, when he released Spiritland for Orleans Information. The recording was well received, and in 1998 Robicheaux documented Louisiana Medication Man and implemented up with Hoodoo Party. In 1998, Offbeat mag dubbed him the champion of its prize for the year’s Greatest Blues Album with a Louisiana Musician. He received three nominations, one in the group of Greatest Blues Musician, through the Big Easy Entertainment Honours the following season. Furthermore to his New Orleans gigs, he provides performed in Colorado, NY, SC, Australia, and Paris. He provides played celebrations in Canada and France, and made an appearance for eight consecutive years at the brand new Orleans Jazz & Traditions Festival from 1994. He in addition has played consistently at the brand new Orleans French One fourth Celebration since 1995.