Wild Tchoupitoulas, The - S/T [New Orleans funky party 1976] - New LP

American music came from many places--mainly Africa of course--but it all came together down in New Orleans.  And this funky album from the Wild Tchoupitoulas shows so well how the ingredients came together to create the gumbo stew that fed and fueled so many forms of American music.  While many forms of percussion were sadly taken from black people in the South, they kept the rhythms alive on the floorboards of juke joints, shotgun shack porches and churches, and down in the islands, the oh so important percussion remained the foundation, and that made its way up to New Orleans.  Freed slaves might have picked up horns left behind when the Confederate troops rushed him home after the Civil War, and many Black Americans had amazingly mastered brass and keyboards before the turn of the century, the Creoles had had plenty of access to horns and pianos, and while they might have been mostly separated from many Blacks in New Orleans, when Plessy was pushed to the back of the bus in the 18