Julian Primeaux

[Brandon W]

I wanted to post some videos and put some information out there about my friend Julian Primeaux. He's as talented as they come. He's played with everyone. This year he opened for Dick Dale, T-Model Ford, and Reverend Horton Heat, to name a few. He played a few shows as Dr. John's guitarist and toured with Dax Riggs as his lead guitarist. Dax is another friend of mine and he was the singer for a band called Acid Bath in the early to mid-90's. He then started agents of oblivion which turned from a big band to a two piece with another one of our friends, Tessie Brunet, on drums. Dax now is just Dax Riggs. They play all over the country and i'll post a few of his videos also if no one minds. Tess has left Louisiana for Austin and now Nashville and her new band is called Au Ras Au Ras. So it's probably your typical tight laced local scene. Julian is in 4 different bands and has been in 15. He played lead and vocals in his own metal band in high school called Sanity's mask while also touring the country as the lead guitar for Little Nathan and the zydeco big tymers. He plays guitar for Drew Landry. Drew is a country/folk singer currently signed to Warner Bros. Julian was the brainchild behind the howdies. The howdies are a pretty unique band and have started several trends lately. They broke up 2 weeks ago after 5 years. Julian had this vision of mixing punk/country/rockabilly with gypsy jazz. They had a stand up bass player and a stand up drummer along with one guitar and harmonica/kazoo. It incorporated elements of blue grass also. The experiment worked and they played SXSW 3 times and jazz fest and all the big festivals although on small stages. Now, locally especially, everyone dresses like them and they started using his effects and really doing what the howdies do but getting money and agents behind them and now one of them ripped them off and is nominated for a grammy. How fucking awesome and unoriginal. Then there was the year and a half with Dax Riggs. I'll post about Dax as time goes if no one minds. The project Julian is currently working on is his own band which is called Julian Primeaux and his Royal Rowdy Company. He stays busy with this and he also plays in his dads band, A.J. and the badcats. He has his own studio and he is producing all my stuff and playing on some of it too. With me it's different because i do it as a passion and a hobby because my real job won't allow me to go any further. My dream is to have all these songs tracked nicely for my little girl in case she wants to pursue music and i think she can know more about me by the songs i wrote. Plus i write songs for other artists and i find song writing to be a coping mechanism to battle all my personal inefficiencies. I'm writing this for Julian in an attempt to try and spread the word. He is a prodigy on the guitar, and all instruments, but his musical talent is only overshadowed by his kindness as a person. We talk everyday and he was here for me when my mom passed a few months ago. He keeps me comfortable in the studio and doesn't belittle me for trying. I will do everything i can for him including writing very long and boring posts in forums in hopes one person reads it and watches a few videos. The howdies were playing this festival and he pulled my little girl on stage during the last song and let her help him with his solo. She was 6 and she nailed it but that is a memory that i will take to my grave and one of the proudest moments in my life. Watching your daughter get up there in front of 900 people leaves me speechless and i am so grateful he did this for me. So thanks Julian and once the right person catches wind of you then i hope you will be too busy to call me and come and visit. A full time musician who is so focused that he doesn't drink or do drugs is such a rarity and i wish that you someday you get the credit you deserve and prove that you don't have to be a cut throat to make it. Good Luck

[Brandon W]

I'm not a huge SRV fan but i think we both totally respect him as a musician. He is the real deal. Julian covered him with his dads band. The second guitar solo and the last one right at the end are awesome. The sax was a bit loud but that dude playing is huge and nobody is telling him to turn it down. His name is Pat Breaux and he is very much for real with the credits to prove it. Just ask Robert Plant or Elvis Costello, they both use him occasionally. He was warming up with Julian and AJ for a trip to play shows in England. What a treat. Thanks
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[Brandon W]

Perfect use of a POG! I'm telling you that if you want girls to throw themselves at you then play this song like this. It's amazing. He'll do the make you feel like you drunk in a gospel church thing now and again and it always works. I think his girl wants him to stop playing this one! ha! And no..of course those mics weren't on ladies.
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[Brandon W]

A write up on Julian in the college paper here. The paper is called the vermillion. Great article. Thanks
http://www.thevermilion.com/primeaux-re ... JvoT3kcfbg

[Brandon W]

I have a review of Julian's first record from a dutch website. It's crazy how it reads when you translate! ha!

Here is the translated version..

Julian Primeaux there after many years of solo shows and participations in other bands finally succeeded in his first full album "Flowers From My Bones" to bring out after the release of a demo CD in 2008. Experience has this boy Sat All of the stages in 1984, foams, and he oriented himself in various styles, ranging from heavy rock's Mask of Sanity to the Hilly Billy The Howdies but zydeco, blues, rockabilly and punk were reviewed.

On the other hand, there are also recent artists who can enchant like Kings Of Leon, but his childhood roots in the music of T Rex and Van Morrison. Immerse all under the swamps of Loisiana and then you get the very diverse and original sound of Julian Primeaux. As if he wants to put extra emphasis, he mentions track 3 and 5 songs played in a traditional one-man band style, a genre that many old Primeaux supporters close to my heart will lie and fun memories will bubble and splash on his solo live shows. I'm sure many fans when they hear "Red Rodeo" spontaneously begin to sing the chorus of this pleasant foot pestle, with harp, tambourine and a cheerful electric guitar center, a busker clipped song. With his slightly hoarse voice Primeaux is as it were a new song in this style: grunge folk.

Number 5, "Sinners & Sisters, drained with a heavy distortion and slide from a keg where blues Seasick Steve Lazarus would be drunk and ends as a gospel-using Robert Plant. The blood flows from the solo artist certainly by Primeaux's veins and the enthusiasm is great, but this money also for the rest of the album. The opener "Baby Come On" rocks the stars of heaven and sounds like The Doors at speed, with a psychedelic organ and the rocking guitar Primeaux who breathes fire poisonous. "Big Girls" begins solemnly as a godly gospel blues but shoots straight to a high punkrock acceleration, while the soulful "Good Times" is a cross between a lingering country blues of The Rolling Stones, The Small Faces and even Van Morrison in a very emotional performance.

Even Townes Van Zandt is just around the corner in the sad "My Birthday", that instead of a nice party turns into a night of loneliness. Beautiful song for the lovers of Jimi Hendrix and The Black Crowes is drunk, heartbreaking, waltzing "Dance On" you step slowend drags on the dance floor. A topper filled with roots and voodoo sounds straight from the swamps of Louisiana's "Hell To Pay Blues". Primeaux retrieves the most satanic grunge sounds of his voice and instrument this number as a conductor and master the art knows the reins fully to celebrate with insane screaming guitars and frantic vocals, but also perfect, hypnotic breaks succeeds in welding dark, pounding percussion and sweeping harmonica sounds, giving it even more mysterious. Completely broken by the heartache he sounds again in love ballad "Queen Of Love", when he sees the girl of his dreams leave with a love rival.

The closing and title track from the album, "Flowers From My Bones", feels like an artist who met reaches its climax in a heavy rocking gospel, only two, but beautiful lines of text has: "And When I Die and I will go, There'll be flowers from my bones ... And When I Die will sow the seed, There'll Be flowers from my bones ". We do, however, prefer the beautiful music Julian Primeaux then makes a bouquet of flowers that will bloom colorful perhaps, but never will shine like this record.

[Brandon W]

My friend Julian played guitar for a record release for Steve Kerin. He is similar to Dr. John. Julian just finished building the guitar he's using in the video. It's an esquire but it has a 3 way switch and he did some cool things with it. I think in 1 position it is just a regular pickup with tone control and in the next it bypasses the tone control and the third sounds like a wah half cocked. I can't remember what that's called. I'll find out in a second. I like the way it sounds.

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