Growing up amid zydeco pouring from juke joints throughout southwest Louisiana shaped C.C. Adcock’s singular approach to the usual four-bar blues. The guitarist, singer, and songwriter, raised in Lafayette, avoids conventional blues in favor of a sound saturated with offbeat blues-rock melodies and zydeco rhythms. Countless miles on the road alongside Bo Diddley and Stanley Dural, better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, surface in his fiery, intense, and above all danceable style.
Charles Clinton Adcock backed artists such as Dural, Diddley, and Bobby Charles throughout his teenage years and joined their tours whenever possible. Demo recordings made with British producer Tarka Cordell reached Island Records executives, resulting in a contract. Most of his debut was tracked in his hometown of Lafayette along with Los Angeles studios and featured area players including Tommy McLain and Warren Storm. The 1994 self-titled major-label release on Island Records blends Louisiana blues, zydeco, Cajun, and classic R&B into a musical gumbo entirely his own. Adcock stamps his personal mark on material by Art Neville (“Fool to Care”), Arthur Alexander (“Sally Sue Brown”), and Gene Terry (“Cindy Lou”). Six years after the initial album he issued a reissue of the debut under the title House Rocker. Four years after that he delivered Lafayette Marquis on Yep Roc.
