Starting with a heavy, heavy base of Cajun influences, Landreth bends and blends his chords and notes into accessible grooves full of bayou bluesiness.
Po’ Boy Swing are graduates of the same musical school as Faith No More, Scatterbrain, Sweaty Nipples, The Beasties, and others of the funk/rap/metal genre.
Some of the stuff is downright grating. But underlying each scratchy, Sonic Youth-influenced anthem pulses the life-force and emotion of the three musicians.
Today, the only thing about MTV possessing any enduring value is Liquid Television, their show of adult cartoon shorts. Yet this compilation falls short.