“Every year for Carnival Time,
We make a new suit.
Red yellow green, purple or blue,
We make a new suit.
We got feathers on our crowns
That stand about eight feet high,
In every color of the rainbow,
Were beautiful, I aint lying!
Every year for Carnival Time,
We make a new suit.
We make a new suit.”
—from New Suit by The Wild Magnolias, first recorded in 1970.
I worked with a japanese video guy named Toshii who worked for a japanese tv station and he made a filme about the Wild Magnolias.. I wondered why them in particular until I saw the Wild Magnolias’s japanese guitarist play and I thought :: this is absolutely the wildest guitarist yet.. but it does not come thru on the CDs.
It is said in New Orleans that this japanese guitarist is the funkiest guitar player alive. I have got to see that film.