Bayonne Boy Chris Vincent Makes A Life In The Crescent City
Chris Vincent follows up last year’s Good Crook with The Chicken Mart EP, a collaborative effort wherein the New Orleans songwriter/guitarist/singer got some of his Louisiana friends in the studio to bash out two new originals at Grammy Award-winning Jake Eckert’s Rhythm Shack studio. Originally from Bayonne, Vincent plays a mean slide and demonstrated such at the recent New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. (See him below showing off his funky fretwork live on WWL-TV.)
He reached out to tell us that the EP “is more than a record. It’s a fully local artifact written, recorded, designed, pressed and printed entirely in New Orleans, a testament to the city’s enduring creative ecosystem. For me, the decision was simple. New Orleans and her people inspire the vast majority of the songs I write so it made sense. [Visual Artist] Anthony [DelRosario of the NOLA ‘Nacular art gallery on Magazine Street] and I are personal friends, and the cover has been hanging on a wall in my studio all along. Art imitates life!”
Chris Vincent & The Raw Deals will perform tonight at the New Orleans Snug Harbor and again June 27 at the Muddy Water Fest in Baton Rouge. Their residency at the Banks Street Bar will be every Tuesday in the French Quarter and he’ll play solo at the Pensacola Blues Festival in Florida June 28.