'Tales From The Woods’ raises a
glass and says farewell to Zydeco accordionist and singer Boozo Chavis
who died in hospital in Austin, Texas on May 30th aged 70. Very much
his own man who had little time for the record business after ‘Paper In My
Shoe’ hit big in 1954 - still to this day one of the bigger selling Zydeco
records of all time - he chose to spend the next 30 years on the fringes of
music, his living earned by training racehorses. Watershed year 1984, Boozo came
back into music full-time forming the Magic Sounds, known throughout the South
lands for their legendary four hour-long high energy sets. Rough edge hypnotic,
white stetson and apron very much his trademark.