Dammit, that was released in 1995. performed on the TV show, Live with want them to have a good time." Griffith previously played with The Regis and· Kathie Lee, and has toured According to LeBlanc, fun is the name and had an MTV hit called the U.S. as well as France, the former of the game. Amen, brother. "China". Savoy played with a Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Italy, zydeco I punk band called The which has earned the band worldwide , Renee Orgeron, Bluerunners from 1987-1994 before recognition. contributing writer replacing 's original Despite their recent notoriety, bassist, Steve Walters. Cowboy Mouth stays focused on Aside from the MCA release, the band Cowboy Mouth, or The Mouth, as what's truly important. Remembering has three albums to date: Word Of Mouth, devoted fans say, has played "every gig their own days in the c.rowd, the band Mouthin' Off Live and It Means Escape. imaginable to man," LeBlanc said. They insists on giving something back to Cowboy Mouth will be featured tonight on got their start opening for Dash Rip their fans. WDSU, Ch. 6, at 10 p.m. Look for them at Rock at Tipitina's and haven't stopped "Only by giving can you get Tipitina's Big Room on Lundi Gras with -0 since. Local fame began with the anything worth keeping, so we want to (') special guests Jolene and in weeks to come release of "How Do You Tell Someone," give back to all of the people that come Q at Jazzfest. and "Jenny Says" gave them national to see our show," LeBlanc said, "We see standing. Cowboy Mouth recently it as a contract with the band and we 3 c: ｾ Jolene back for more Mardi Gras 0 Having played their first gigs at That record was Hell's Half Acre, first come two opening gigs in New Mardi Gras three years ago, Jolene have which helped Jolene (the name comes Orleans, tomorrow night at Carrollton found themselves back in the Crescent from a great-great-aunt of Burris and Station with the Continental Drifters City just in time for another Carnival. Crooke) get on a tour with Hootie and (who make a guest appearance on In "It's sort of appropriate that we're the Blowfish and receive some notice the Gloaming) and Monday at Tip's Big gonna play Mardi Gras this year and from major labels. They signed with Room in support of Cowboy Mouth. the record's gonna come out on Mardi Sire in July 1997. With multi- Gras day. It's sort . of one of those instrumentalist Rodney Lanier ,, Andrew Kirkpatrick, providential moments where you say, rounding out the lineup, the group Arcade editor ah ... that's a good sign," lead guitarist headed to Montreal to record In the Dave Burris said. Gloaming. The recent Sire Records signees, "'In the Gloaming' is an old whose major-label debut In tlze Irish traditional song and it Gloaming comes out Tuesday, formed at was sort of a turn-of-the- a recording session for another band. century pop song. It was one of "In the summer of '94, I was living in our grandparents' favorite New York, and John (Crooke), who is songs, and it's one of those the lead singer, is my first cousin, and songs that you sit on the porch he was producing this band from and sing in the twilight, which Hattiesburg called Snapdragon for this is what it means," Burris said. indie label, Pound Records. And he The record is a guitar rock needed a guitar player .. . and we tour de force, heavy with the recorded in South Carolina, just over weight of the legacy of the Old the border from Charlotte. John and I South. On songs such as ended up co-producing and playing "Pensacola," (the first single, guitar on the record. And he had been which the band recently playing with Mike (Mitschele, the bass completed shooting a video player) and Mike (Kenerley, the for) Crooke's voice breaks drummer) in a band called the through the mix with the Hardsoul Poets and basically when the world-weariness of a Johnny decision was made, all the elements Cash without lapsing into nasal sort of came together," Burris said. country twang. The type of "We sort of brought all those bands record that can be listened to together, and Jolene sort of grew intently or serve as background organically out of all those experiences. music equally well, In the Probably within four or five months of Gloaming deserves to become when we first started playing together, one of the big albums of 1998. we were recording our first record in The North Carolina natives FILE PHOTO Memphis for Ardent. We basically hit are gearing up for a March tour Jolene (L to R:) Dave Burris, Mike Mitschele, Rodney Lanier, Mike Kenerley and the ground running." with Marcy Playground, but Dave Crooke. arcade februQry 20, 1998 5