Indie Vibes from the Big Easy: Captain Buckles' Latest Drop from this fun rocking band!

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music Interviews, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 107 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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About the New Orleans-based group Captain Buckles, a band made up of top A-list musicians who have backed many household names! The majority of tracks on Hurry Up the debut album from "Captain Buckles" are funky, rockin' instrumentals written by guitarist Alexander Mallet: kickin', and organic. Captain Buckles takes risks, grooves and moves with powerful chemistry and a punk, irreverent attitude that prompts listeners to feel good to be human. "Bus Station Blues" and "Raindrops on Mardi Gras,” are soulful slinky tunes featuring masterful vocals by keys man Rob Davis. "This Time" is a rock ballad by a close friend of the group, Michael Darby. After years of incubating, Captain Buckles has found its own trademark sound steeped in the grooves and funk of New Orleans and the elements that make American music emotionally moving and stylistically unique. The band jams hard while emphasizing musical exploration and dynamic subtlety, showing the inspiration from of icons like The Meters, Allman Brothers, and The Band but utilizing those influences to create a style all their own. The members of Captain Buckles include New Orleans born-and-raised Rob Davis and Ezell Smith Jr., as well as Los Angeles transplant Smitti Supab, Pennsylvanian Phil Breen, who’ve both played professionally in the Crescent City for 13+ years. Florida ex-pat Alex Mallet is the newcomer of the crew having arrived a mere eight years ago. Before forming Captain Buckles, the members had performed with each other in various line-ups for years between touring as backing musicians with national and international acts like Eric Lindell, Samantha Fish, Russell Batiste, John "Papa" Gros, Glen David Andrews, and many others. They transitioned to working as a distinctive, butt-shaking unit all their own two years ago, a no-nonsense brotherhood of hard-working sidemen, championing good vibes and an intense love of music. The recording of Hurry Up was funded in part by a grant from the Threadhead Cultural Foundation (https://www.thcfnola.org/.). www.captainbucklesband.com facebook.com/captainbucklesband instagram.com/captainbucklesband open.spotify.com/artist/3q8yPNmKITP14G9YOEnnrV www.youtube.com/@captainbucklesband music.apple.com/il/artist/captain-buckles/1758847494 www.amazon.com/music/player/artists/B0D9WR9Y79/captain-buckles captainbucklesband.bandcamp.com About Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris The Music Matters Podcast is hosted by Darrell Craig Harris, a globally published music journalist, professional musician, and Getty Images photographer. Music Matters is now available on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean, and more. Each week, Darrell interviews renowned artists, musicians, music journalists, and insiders from the music industry. Visit us at: www.MusicMattersPodcast.com Follow us on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/musicmattersdh For inquiries, contact: musicmatterspodcastshow@gmail.com Support our mission via PayPal: www.paypal.me/payDarrell

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0:00.0	Welcome to Music Matters podcast with Daryl Craig Harris,
0:07.1	talking about all things music with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.
0:20.7	Smitty Supab from Captain Buckles.
0:23.7	How are you doing today?
0:24.6	All right.
0:25.6	All right.
0:26.6	Thanks for having me.
0:27.6	So you're a bass player.
0:28.6	I think it says you're from L.A. originally, but you're in a great group called Captain Buckles.
0:32.6	You have your first full-length album coming out, which is Hurry Up.
0:36.6	That's going to be out November 14th.
0:38.7	So how did you go from L.A. town to New Orleans? Tell me this, and tell me the story of how
0:43.1	the band came together. Well, going from L.A. to New Orleans is kind of long. I haven't lived in Los Angeles
0:49.3	for about 20 years. And it wasn't exactly music related initially. I left Los Angeles after graduating
0:59.3	in computer science. And I taught in China as an English teacher for three and a half years,
1:07.1	and that's where I started playing music because I there was some kind of
1:12.5	demand for it and being an expat and all and even though I had never played
1:17.1	professional before I had the chance to to take a stab at it with some other
1:25.1	expats there on the bar scene.
1:34.9	And did that for about four years and tried to get out after being a little bit jaded.
1:37.9	Went to Thailand for four months.
1:43.5	And then eventually he came to New Orleans in 2013. After watching a few seasons of Tremay.
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