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| Say what? How LSU, Clemson football coaches were shaped by pronunciations - USA TODAY Posted: 12 Jan 2020 12:40 PM PST CLOSE  NEW ORLEANS – LSU head coach Ed Orgeron has a peculiar way of talking. It's gruff and full of gravel and a direct dialectal descendant of Cajun French. Some people even mocked him for it previously. Some still do. And that's partly why he's here now, getting his team ready to play Clemson at the Superdome Monday for the College Football Playoff national championship. "My grandparents didn't speak English, and my mother and father spoke Cajun French at the table and then when they wanted to talk … they spoke Cajun French, so I learned Cajun French," Orgeron said Sunday at a news conference. "So I'm excited to be at LSU at home where we're proud of our Cajun heritage. We're proud of Louisiana. I just feel at home here. People that made fun of my accent before, I thank them. That gave me internal motivation to do better, so I thank them to be motivators of my career." HOT COMMODITY: LSU's Joe Brady will have plenty of options EXTRA MONEY: Big bonuses on line for Dabo Swinney, Ed Orgeron in national title game Orgeron's counterpart in Monday's game, Dabo Swinney of Clemson, has his own Southern peculiarities, adding to the home-cooked vibe that infuses both teams from the top down. He's also an example of how lives can be shaped by how speech is spoken. Swinney, 50, was born in Birmingham as William Christopher Swinney but took on the name Dabo from his slightly older brother, Tripp. At a young age, Tripp referred to him as "that boy," which came out of his young mouth sounding more like "Dabo," according to popular legend. Swinney has said in the past he didn't even know his real name until third grade. "I obviously grew up in Alabama and sometimes you meet people along the way and they'd say, `Where do you get a name like Dabo?'" Swinney said Sunday. "So sometimes I just didn't want to tell, so I'd say, `Well, I'm Cajun. D-A-B-E-A-U-X, Dabeaux.' And I just go about my business. I kind of feel at home here, too." Swinney was joking about having Cajun roots. But feeling at home – and being themselves – have contributed to the success of both. So have words – and how they are spoken. It's why Dabo is Dabo and not Bill or William. He's a one-word celebrity in the tradition of Madonna or Beyonce, at least in the South. It's also why Orgeron, 58, might not fit in the same anywhere else – and partly why Louisiana has rallied behind his team like nothing seen here since the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl in February 2010. Cajuns are the descendants of Acadian exiles from the Maritime provinces of Canada who migrated to southern Louisiana, according to 64 Parishes, a project of the Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities. They have their own culture and food and manner of speaking. But it didn't just motivate Orgeron when he was mocked for it. It also helped him in other areas where it stood out. For example, Orgeron grew up in South Louisiana but attended college at Northwestern State in Natchitoches, about a four-hour drive northwest, where there are far fewer Cajuns. "We had a funny accent being Cajun," said Bobby Hebert, Orgeron's former high school teammate at South Lafourche who later become quarterback of the Saints. Both Orgeron and Hebert (pronounced AY-bare) also played together at Northwestern State. "So we always used that to our advantage with the girls," Hebert told USA TODAY Sports of their college years. "They always thought we were exotic." Follow sports reporter Brent Schrotenboer @Schrotenboer. E-mail: bschrotenb@usatoday.com  |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2020 09:00 AM PST    G. Love is in a really good place right now. Literally. He's on the phone, but G. Love — real name: Garrett Dutton — says he's standing on the spot in the backyard of his Cape Cod home where, last September, his girlfriend, Kelsey, became his wife. As it happens, the veteran singer's career is also in a good place. His first new album in five years, "The Juice," is due for release Jan. 17, just days after his current tour brings him to the Blueberry Hill Duck Room on Sunday. The record, G. Love says, has been in the works for three years. It was produced by Grammy-winning blues artist Keb' Mo', whom G. Love has known since the two were labelmates on Okeh Records, the classic blues label that was relaunched in the 1990s by Sony Music. Working with Keb' Mo' was a new experience for G. Love and his longtime band, Special Sauce. "We've always been known for our kind of off-the-cuff, down-and-dirty approach to our form of the blues and hip-hop and garage-type music," G. Love says. "But this was a whole different kind of session." Keb' Mo', he notes, "is super-aware of everything he's doing. His whole philosophy is that he wants to make a blues record that sounds like it could be a Beyoncé record. Not the music, but the sonics and the production quality. It should be as high-quality as any other kind of music." For his part, G. Love brought in special guests — including steel-guitar greats Robert Randolph and Roosevelt Collier plus rising guitar heroes Marcus King and Ron Artis II — to give some of the songs a broader contemporary blues feel. But the main collaboration on the album is between G. Love and Keb' Mo'. A good example of their method of working together is the album's title track, "The Juice," which G. Love says is a protest song addressing current political concerns, but done in such a way as to promote empathy and positivity. "It was just one of those magical songwriting moments when you're just sitting with someone and flowing in the moment," he says. G. Love had the basics of the song down, but Keb' Mo' wanted to refine the chorus and add a call-and-response element. "He said, 'We got the juice, we got the love,' and I might have said, 'We got the dreams,' and he said, 'We won't give up,'" G. Love recalls. "And then it goes, 'We are the change, we've had enough,' and I said, 'We got the juice,' and he just said, 'Time's up!' It was like the whole sky opened up." G. Love thinks of himself as a "protest kid," having participated in marches in Washington, D.C., and his hometown of Philadelphia, but says that writing a protest song with Keb' Mo', who is African American and grew up in Compton, California, during the civil rights movement, was next-level stuff. There are more angles to the album than just politics, though, and those familiar with G. Love & Special Sauce's party vibe won't be disappointed by cuts such as "Go Crazy" (the record's first single) and "Soul-B-Que" as well as "Shake Your Hair" and "Fix Your Face." You'd expect nothing less of the artist whose best-known number is still "Cold Beverages," a college radio staple in the 1990s and a heavily rotated video on MTV back when that still meant something. Speaking of cold beverages, G. Love recently introduced his own brand of, uh, special sauce called the Juice IPA, which is brewed by the GoodLife Brewing Co. in Bend, Oregon. Distribution is limited, though G. Love says he's hoping to get it into more states. As for his recent marriage, not only has G. Love placed a song celebrating his wife ("She's the Rock") on the new album, but it has changed his outlook about some of his older material as well. "Like everybody else, I've been through a lot of relationships over the years, and I've written a lot of breakup songs," he says. "Now that I'm in a stable relationship with a supportive partner, I look back at them and think, 'Wow, I wrote that? I must've been in bad shape.'" He adds with a laugh: "I don't even want to sing those old breakup songs anymore. I can't even relate to them now. So I'm in a good place. This is nice." What G. Love & Special Sauce • When 8 p.m. Sunday • Where Blueberry Hill Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard • How much Sold out • More info ticketmaster.com Editor's note: Updated to include the correct venue information.
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