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Eclectic Louisiana-based group The Revelers<\/strong> make music for dancing. \u201cIt has<\/em> to be danceable,\u201d says multi-instrumentalist Daniel Coolik<\/strong>. \u201cWe pride ourselves on being a get-up-and-move sort of band. That’s where we come from. If you play stuff that people can’t dance to, they’re just not going to come out.\u201d When called upon to do so, Coolik says that The Revelers are a \u201cdance hall, club kind of band\u201d who can play a four hour set of \u201call the old songs you’d want to hear.\u201d The band hoped that people would move tables out of the way and dance for the Sep. 11 date at Asheville NC’s ISIS Restaurant & Music Hall.<\/p>\n Though they’re often referred to as a \u201csupergroup\u201d \u2013 they’re all previous members of celebrated Americana acts The Pine Leaf Boys<\/strong> and\/or The Red Stick Ramblers<\/strong> \u2013 the musicians in The Revelers don’t take themselves too seriously. Their Wikipedia entry includes a number of fanciful \u201cfacts\u201d such as this one: \u201c[Daniel Coolik] has since renounced his faith in Bluegrass Music. He\u2019s more into Stax now.\u201d Coolik chuckles and admits that much of that information was put in \u201cjust to see how much we could get away with.\u201d He and his bandmates do have a deep affinity for southern soul from the Memphis label, though.<\/p>\n In fact that open-minded approach informs The Revelers’ music. Less genre-specific than the bands out of which it rose, The Revelers fold in healthy amounts of country, rock ‘n’ roll, blues, and western swing into their Cajun musical stew. Sometimes described as a Zydeco or \u201cswamp pop\u201d group, The Revelers consciously aim to create music that can’t easily be described with a simple label. \u201cWe’re trying to do more rock ‘n’ roll,\u201d Coolik says, though the group’s deep Louisiana roots \u2013 not to mention their decision to sing many songs in French \u2013 color the music so that it’s always interesting and unique. And he notes that \u201cthere’s a lot of crossover between Cajun and country music,\u201d both of which find their way into The Revelers’ sound. \u201cWhen somebody [in the band] brings a song, we ask ourselves, ‘How does this fit into what we’re doing?’\u201d<\/p>\n What The Revelers are doing is staying busy, both in the studio and on the road. 2014 saw the release of Play the Swamp Pop Classics, Vol. 1<\/em>, an EP containing four traditional covers. And the group’s most recent effort is the all-originals Get Ready<\/em>. The ISIS date was a CD release party for the new Get Ready<\/em> disc, the band’s second full-length release.<\/p>\n Swamp pop is an umbrella term used to describe music from Louisiana, but the label often applies to very disparate styles of music. Coolik describes it as a style of music often made by \u201cCajun musicians coming out of playing French, Acadian music. They listened to Fats Domino<\/strong>, the rock ‘n’ roll and rhythm and blues that was coming out of New Orleans, that kind of 6\/8 beat.\u201d The fact that the musicians came out of southwest Louisiana influenced the way that they played, Coolik says. And like The Revelers’ music, \u201cit was for dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/revelers.jpg\")
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