Curley Taylor is living up to his band’s name, Zydeco Trouble. Taylor’s recently released sophomore CD, Free Your Mind, is a two-disc set filled with his trademark zydeco with a strong R&B flavor. But the second CD of the set has already caused trouble for Taylor’s polite, guy-I-would-let-my-daughter-date image. Titled “Close to Midnight,” the mellow R&B disc contains four songs of steamy, sexy lyrics. While not explicit, songs like “Gotta Have You” and “Lick It Stick It” leave little to the imagination.

In “Sexual Fantasy,” Taylor sings “Your body’s dripping wet / let’s not waste no time / ’cause it’s on my mind / I want to taste your body wine.” Taylor said the sultry songs are “Curley — all grown up.”

People were saying, ‘You don’t have to do it. Your image is clean cut,’” says Taylor. “That’s true, but that’s what sells. It’s easier for some people to do it than it is for others. People might say, ‘That boy is singing about some nasty stuff.’ But if you listen to Boozoo [Chavis] singing about ‘Deacon Jones,’ he’s telling you what’s going on. I guess because he was old and senile, people would just say he’s crazy. If I do it, people will say, ‘Now, why would you say that?’ It’s not like it’s never been said before. I look at it, too, if you don’t take the song, somebody else records it and it’s a big hit. You’d be, like, ‘Why didn’t I do that?’ So I said, let’s do it.”

The sexy soul and zydeco dance numbers are a follow-up to Country Boy, Taylor’s debut CD of nearly three years ago. On Country Boy, Taylor won fans from New Orleans to The Netherlands with a seldom-seen approach to zydeco. Instead of the usual Boozoo Chavis or Clifton Chenier covers or one-liners and chants about goats, chickens, dogs and donkeys, Taylor dished out original songs with fresh lyrics and a contemporary rhythm and blues feel. Free Your Mind brings more of the same with 12 original songs that include dance grooves such as “Country Girl” and “Baby Girl,” a pop-flavored ballad with crossover written all over it “Just You,” and the classic soul sound of “Kiss Me Like You Miss Me.” Carencro resident and Island Def Jam recording artist Marc Broussard appears on “It’s Alright,” returning the favor after Taylor played rubboard in Broussard’s “Home” video last year.

“I branched out on certain songs,” says Taylor. “Some songs, it still felt like it was a Louisiana song. Other songs, I wanted to make it seem this band is ready to have a song that can be national.

“I think playing home, if I sound like everybody else, it’s going to be hard for me to branch out. I can, at least, fit in where they’re at. They’re still here and that’s not the goal. If I make my music sound like everybody else, I’ll fit in the circle. But how big is the circle? I don’t want to be where they’re at. They’ve been there 12 years and still in the circle.”