Check it out! I just stumbled on this on YouTube recently.
My recordings and live band “Fitzhugh and the Fanatics” was the “un-Gamal-izing” of myself after my 8 year stint with the Jazz/Rock powerhouse, Gamalon. I started out by stripping down American songbook/Jazz Standards into a more bluesy 3-chord format wherever I could, just for fun, with a recording titled “Blue Standards”. That took all my jazz Theory training, applied in reverse! It ended up sounding kind of like Elvis Presley meets Stephanne Grapelli meets Stevie Ray Vaughn if you can imagine that (for sale in the school store FYI ;-).
When a small record label (Hot Wings Entertainment) took some interest in what I was doing, I recorded a second album as Fitzhugh and the Fanatics, but this time with more of a Cajun/fiddle rock slant, which at the time was my newest musical interest. The result was this “Flavor” CD.
In that era, I also did 4 albums with a full on Cajun/Zydeco band called LeeRon Zydeco and the Hot Tamales. You can find that stuff on the web I you search a bit. We did a LOT of gigs and ate really well …most of those gigs were paired with Cajun food!
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