Mel Melton & The
Wicked Mojos
Papa Mojo’s Roadhouse
LRHR -1166
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also avaliable on cd baby
Mel Melton the North Carolina native has been cookin’ up the hot stuff, both on the stage with his vocals and harmonica, and in the kitchen, in Louisiana for a better than three decades now and just getting better. When he first came down to the Lafayette area he and Sonny Landreth put together a band and he later played on Sonny’s first CD, “Blues Attack.” This singer, harmonica and rubboard player, and chef has continued to grow and learn his crafts that is getting him noticed and for all the right reasons.
On this, his third disc and first for Louisiana Red Hot Records, Melton has a smoking affair in which he has enlisted the help of some of his friends. He enlisted Sonny Landreth to add some of his signature style flaming slide guitar on “Ils
Sont Parti.” Johnny Garcia from Trisha Yearwood’s band contributes his slide guitar attack to Zydeco Razzle, which opens the disc. Melton wrote or co-wrote all but one of the songs on the disc, and his singing has only gotten more powerful with the passage of time. His timing and inflection has aged as well as a fine wine and gives his music that added pop that an experienced singer can bring. The variety of music he covers is expanding beyond just Zydeco, to include Cajun, swamp rock, and roadhouse songs, all of which he covers with equal verve and zeal.