Coco Robicheaux has created a moody, memorable, and sometimes mysterious disk, one that evokes a strong sense of place and presents clear artistic vision... Lousiana Medicine Man will have swamp water dripping from your speakers.
-Tom Townsley, Blues Revue

[**ROOSTER PICK**] ...stone cold blues, gris-gris, cottonmouth swamp, sweet love, Treme stomp (with the Pinstripe Brass Band) and a little something spiritual. Good medicine.
-Blues Access

The full sounds are of swamp rock that has gone to town. Coco is in touch with all the root sounds of the Big Easy and its environs, but he still manages to work in a Mardi Gras brass band without losing his rugged authenticity. ~ -Tom Schulte, All Music Guide

A rough-edged, refreshing album.
- PJK, Living Blues

Coco Robicheaux's latest, Louisiana Medicine Man (Orleans Records). For my money, Louisiana Medicine Man is an even fuller, more entrancing effort than Robicheaux's stellar 1994 release Spiritland. Robicheaux has another terrific batch of songs on this outing, and his intense growl of a voice has never sounded more compelling. "Cottonmouth" is simply a devastating Louisiana-inspired song, riding on a spooky bayou groove, Nancy Buchan's eerie electric fiddle lines, and Robicheaux's dead-on desperate vocal about a man on the run in the swamps. "3:33 Blues" is a similarly haunting 12-bar odyssey, a late-night tale of dreams and unrequited love spiked with a mesmerizing guitar solo from Kenny Holladay.

Robicheaux's also experimented with some new sounds on Louisiana Medicine Man. There's a Texas cantina vibe on "Juanita," and the backing of The Pin Stripe Brass Band on Robicheaux's mythological monologue on "Weight of the World." The title track closes the CD, and sums up the musical and personal vision of New Orleans' coolest hoodoo bluesman.
-Scott Jordan, Bluesworthy/Offbeat

In Creole folklore, a "coco robicheaux" is an impish spirit that's blamed for things like raiding a cookie jar or tracking mud inside. The spirit of CoCo Robicheaux, the New Orleans swampy-blues singer, is a similar one, but brooding and mystical, as well. Robicheaux's songs are spiritual in nature, like being alone in a swamp ("Cottonmouth") or casting a gris-gris spell ("Louisiana Medicine Man"). His throaty muscular singing is a cross between Joe Cocker and a werewolfish Dr. John, which, along with the vertigo fiddling, howling harmonicas, and ethereal female vocals, makes for an edgy, voodoo-ish listen. Additionally, Robicheaux covers a palette of Louisiana/Southern musical styles. "Weight of the World" features the Pinstripe Brass Band; "3:33 Blues" inflicts with the toughest of juke joints. With its infectious hand clapping, the gospel overtones of "Tumblin' Out" delivers a heartfelt message to reach out to the lonely. His musical styles may be all over the map, but it's a Louisiana map (and an intriguingly dark one at that).
-Dan Willging, Dirty Linen

The long-awaited debut disc by the one-and-only Coco Robicheaux, man of many stories with voice of honey under gravel...to this writers ears, Spiritland speaks eloquent testimony to the depth of feeling and breadth of vision Coco brings to his music. The 10 original compositions that make up this album have been written and scored out of the circumstances of Coco's life experience, and each directly reflects an aspects of the unique Robicheaux reality." -John Sinclair, WWOZ

"Spiritland. If this place could be located geographically, you'd probably find it in the low bayou land of southern Louisiana, in the former swamps back o' town in New Orleans or out in the steamy river parishes where the mosses hang from the trees and the mist rises from the land and the water.

But Coco Robicheaux's Spiritland is more likely a mental province, a shadowy place situated somewhere in the mind and viscera which is connected with the world of the ancestors by a thin electrical thread of spectral energy."
-MasterDigital