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Hi everyone! I'm so very excited for tomorrow (read past entries to find out why) and I'm also excited because I've posted my very first Monday Music Mambo. Can I answer my own questions? Let's find out!

1. Who are some of your favorite New Orleans and Louisiana musicians? (Here's a list to get you started: Fats Domino, Louis Armstrong, Harry Connick, Jr.)

BeauSoleil, Buckwheat Zydeco, Fats Domino, The Neville Brothers, the late Beau Jocque, C.J. Chenier, Marcia Ball, Professor Longhair. Louisiana grows two main crops: crawfish and musicians!

2. Gumbo is a favorite New Orleans meal. It's a big pot filled with all sorts of vegetables, seafood, meat, all held together by a thick dark roux. What's in your musical gumbo? (Artists, bands, styles etc.)

The Afro Celt Sound System is the roux in this gumbo because they combine so many cultures. Their ability to change and evolve will hold this thing together. BeauSoleil is going to add some exotic spices with their bayou sounds. Jimi Hendrix will kick things up a notch like a blast of Tabasco. Green Day will be the sausage, gritty and chewy and packed with flavor. Sarah McLachlan, Dave Matthews, Natalie MacMaster will all add their particular musical flavors too. Finally, Marc Broussard and Jonny Lang add that last special touch to the mix.

Now, in honor of today's theme which is Income Tax Day (ugggghhh!), here's the third Mambo question.

3. Your income tax return has finally arrived! You've budgeted enough money for five new CDs. What are you going to get?

Tomorrow I'm going to get Anatomic by the Afro Celt Sound System and Legend by Bob Marley. I need three more albums and I choose . . . This Year's Model by Elvis Costello. Rainy Day Songs by The Jayhawks and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles.


I invite all of my readers to mambo along with me in their own blogs!