Leo Key Unlocked CD

' That's exactly what Jim Walker had in mind. It was probably his early training as an actor that made him approach his music in a more visual and theatrical way. Born in Los Angeles, Jim Walker played lead roles in several plays in high school, college and community theater as well as having featured roles in the films 'Last Chance Dance' directed by Phil Joanou (U2 Rattle & Hum, State of Grace) and the horror film 'Graduation Day'. During this time, he continued playing guitar and singing with several bands. Eventually acting lost out to music and he and his band Lost Anthony began a relentless full time attack, performing at every gig they could get in the Greater L.A. Basin. A nice bit of luck came when Phil Joanou asked Jim to write the opening song for his first feature film, Universal Picture's "Three O'Clock High" Jim's song "Something To Remember Me By" (produced by legendary session drummer/producer Rick Marotta) is featured throughout the film. Jim struck up a friendship/collaboratory relationship with Marotta and the two worked together for the next five years not only writing songs and performing live, but scoring films (Cover Girl Murders, Dead Air), TV shows (HBO's Tales From the Crypt, On the Shore) and commercials (Kodak, Hallmark). At Rick's suggestion, Walker quit his paper route and began singing TV & radio jingles (Gatorade, Kelloggs Frosted Flakes, Coca Cola). He was eventually approached about doing music ...

That live stuff was recorded on a hot night in Maryland, of all places, but it matters not to Carrier, whose family was full of zydeco legends long before "My Toot-Toot" (sort of) catapulted the genre into the mainstream. Ever the crowd pleaser. Carrier covers "My Toot-Toot" on Whiskey-Drinkin Man, putting some backbone (or is that neck bone?) back into it, and he also performs his '87 hit "I Found My Woman," a curveball of a cuckolds lament that he prefaces thusly: "It ain't good to travel too much, 'cause you gonna find somebody like this."Through it all, the tempo is hot, the call-and-response constant and the groove as tight as any ska or funk band's . Each song a direct (if unintentional) slap in the face to those who would use South Louisiana dance music as a background for car commercials. Among other surprises. Carrier and Co. pay tribute to their bandleader's mentor, John Delafose, on a rousing cover of his "Co-Fet?" And check the liner notes for the story behind the aptly titled "Time To Start," where half the band has to be ...