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Cookie Gabriel

I really can't get enough of that Louisiana sound really love it to bits. Here's another rarity from the Crescent City by the obscure Cookie Gabriel. The uptempo side is one of those slinky, funky little numbers that was so "in" at the start of the 60s. Think "pop eye". But the ballad "No Love Sweeter Than Mine" is the side for this website. This is another of those songs on the edge between swamp pop and deep soul. Plodding beat, climbing horns and some lovely NOLA piano (who is this? James Booker?) proved a classic backing for Cookie's rather charming "little girl" vocals. Lovely.

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