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Rooted in Creole tradition but reaching far beyond it, Jeffery Broussard and The Nighttime Syndicate's album 'Bayou Moonlight' honors the past while boldly redefining zydeco with touches of R&B, funk, and soul.

The band cooks like a big pot of jambalaya & it sounds like the musicians are having fun. They probably are.

Bayou Moonlight feels like a culmination and a natural evolution of Louisiana music with a fresh and breezy contemporary energy.

Bayou Moonlight is the party, the romantic serenade in the swamp, and the moment of realization all in one.

"Bayou Moonlight" [...] brings a bold, brassy edge to traditional zydeco.

The outfit have combined to craft an intoxicating mix of blues, soul, Jamaican ska, jazz, swing, gospel, and zydeco, that simply cooks.

Broussard has long been a zydeco mainstay in Acadiana and an accordion master, first playing with his father, Delton Broussard and the Lawtell Playboys, then with the innovative Zydeco Force and his more traditional Creole Cowboys. With The Nighttime Syndicate, though, Broussard is rolling in more New Orleans rhythm and blues influences and a powerful horn section, courtesy of a trio of players from TBC Brass Band.

The last song was Sam Cooke’s musical medicine, “A Change is Gonna Come,” and the band’s particular instrumental textures drew me as deep into the song as I always want to be. I had the poignant realization that here, in Your 9th Ward Living Room, a little change has come. New ways of playing with old musical stories, new creative kinship ties, new fans swaying to this brand new Louisiana sound.