LEROUX
HIGHER UP
ZOOM CLUB RECORDS – ZCRCD77
Titles :
It would be the fever / I know trouble when I see it / New Orleans ladies / Get it right the first time / Crying inside / Mystery / Roll away the stone / Slow burn > Cooking with Le Roux /Let me be your fantasy / Back to love / Take a ride on a river boat / Waitin’ for your love

Musicians :
Leon Medica : bass
Jeff Pollard : guitar, vocals
Rod Roddy : keyboards
Tony Haselden : guitar
David Peters : drums
Bobby Campo : percussion


This album from Leroux was released back in 2002 but it needed such a long time to be in our office. Edited from a radio program, the quality is certainly not the best you'ld expect but, to our joy, it allows us to establish that this night, in Washington, Leroux knew exactly what they were talking about and that they obviously controlled their music. Is starts real hard with the songs "It would be the fever" and "I know trouble when I see it" full of energy, just as "Mistery" et "Let me be your fantasy". Of course, the style and the sound is a bit hard FM but a song such as "Take a ride on a river boat" reminds us their southern influences. Anyway, Leon Medica, on the bass guitar, and his buddies, reminds us Leroux was a really great band coming out from the south.
Philippe Archambeau



LEROUX
AIN' T NOTHING BUT A GRIS GRIS
LM RECORDS – 2000-1
Titles :
Loves Gotta Hold On Me / My Heaven Can’t Wait / Everything That I Love / Nothing But A Gris Gris / Slippin’ Again / French Quarter Moon / Closing In On You / Bayou Lullaby / Your Always Right / I’ll Be Over

Musicians :
Leon Medica : bass
Tony Haselden : guitar
David Peters : drums
Rod Roddy : keyboards
Jim Odom : guitar
Randy Knaps : vocals
Bog Pourclau : drums
Nelson Blanchard : keyboards


After the unforgettable first Lreoux's album in 1978 taht every southern rock fan knows, here is a new album from Leroux wiyh the same high quality as the first one. Great album, funky arrangements, nice rhythms which is the trademark of bands from Louisiana, such as Little feat, Radiators, among others. All the songs send you to this typical sweaty atmosphere full of musical joy, for sure, a great album.
Jacques Dersigny



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