New Orleans Suspects CO Summer Tour

Article Contributed by Michelle Roche Media Relations

Published on May 30, 2017

New Orleans Suspects CO Summer Tour

New Orleans Suspects brings together some of the best, most highly respected players in New Orleans including: “Mean” Willie Green on drums (Neville Bros.); Jeff Watkins on saxophone (James Brown Band, Joss Stone Band); Jake Eckert on guitar/vocals (Dirty Dozen Brass Band); CR Gruver on keyboards and vocals (Polytoxic, Outformation); and Eric Vogel (Tony Hall Band) on bass guitar. Founding member Reggie Scanlan (The Radiators, Professor Longhair) still performs at select shows. The band has seven shows in Colorado including:

Thursday, June 15th @ 7:15 p.m.
FIBArk Whitewater Festival
Riverside Park
Salida
FREE & all ages

Friday, June 16th @ 6:00 p.m.
Colorado BBQ Challenge
Frisco
FREE & all ages

Saturday, June 17th @ 6:00 p.m.
Lone Tree Summer Concert Series
Sweetwater Park
Lone Tree
FREE & all ages

Saturday, June 24th @ 10:00 p.m.
Cervantes’ Other Side (Panic After Show)
Denver
$15/$20 & 16 and over

Wednesday, July 19th @ 6:00 p.m.
TMVOA Sunset Concert Series
Mountain Village/Telluride
FREE & all ages

Thursday, July 20th @ 6:30 p.m.
Snowmass Free Concert Series
Snowmass Village
FREE & all ages

Friday, July 21th @ 8:00 p.m.
Crested Butte Center for the Arts
Crested Butte
$15/$20 & all ages

New Orleans Suspects released their third full-length studio recording, Kaleidoscoped, in September 2016 to rave reviews and substantial airplay on four stations on Sirius/XM Radio. It was added into rotation on neary 170 non-commercial AAA, blues and jazz stations. Kaleidoscoped encompasses traditional Louisiana genres such as Cajun swamp pop, Mardi Gras Indian Funk, a pastiche of Southern rock, Dr. John-style R&B and traditional jazz all with a colorfully distorted lens. The band’s sound is often described as “psychedelic funk.” A slight outlier of a track, “Dixie Highway,” was written by Paul Barrere for Little Feat; he and Fred Tackett (also of Little Feat) add guitar/vocals and mandolin, respectively, for a New Orleans feel the listener might imagine Little Feat having searched for, but never located.

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