Living Blues (p.58) - "[S]ome of the funkiest sounds ever to come out of the Crescent City....It works quite nicely when viewed as vintage New Orleans funk."
The Wild Magnolias: Washington 'Bubba' Scott, James Smothers, Theodore Emile 'Bo' Dollis, Joseph Pierre 'Monk' Boudreaux, James 'Gator June' Johnson, Jr., Lawrence 'Crip' Adams, Johnnie 'Quarter Moon' Tobias, Leonard 'Gate' Johnson (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Fird 'Snooks' Ealin (guitar); Earl Turbinton Jr. (alto saxophone); Willie Tee (ARP synthesizer); Julius Farmer (bass instrument); Larry Panna (drums); Norwood 'Gitchie' Johnson (bass drum); Alfred "Uganda" Roberts (congas); Moses Hogan Singers.
New Orleans legends the Wild Magnolias released their second album, THEY CALL US WILD, in Europe in 1975, but it didn't come out in the States until the '90s, when the band finally went national. Today they're thought of as an old-school Mardis Gras party band, but these early recordings reveal a greasier, murkier sound that owes something to the swamp-funk shadings of late-'60s/early-'70s Dr. John, as well as the slightly jazzy West Coast funkateers in War.