After two thought-provoking, full-length albums and a Christmas EP, Horace Trahan does an about face with a baker’s dozen worth of predominantly covers—his most requested live tunes that span zydeco, Cajun, swamp pop, New Orleans Mardi Gras classics, R&B and country. Zydeco-ized renditions of Cajun chestnuts “Midland Two-Step” and “The Back Door” are blood-pumping exhilarating while Clifton Chenier’s “Zydeco Sont Pas Sale” is an old-fashioned stomp down featuring father-in-law Rodney Bernard’s insane rubboard scraping.

Several zydeco selections smoke but what can be more fun than the thought of priests, nuns and the repo man all throwing it down on “On the One (Love to Zydeco)”? “Seven Spanish Angels,” a 1984 top-10 hit by Willie Nelson and Ray Charles, is the most out-of-the-box selection here, an interesting concoction of Tex-Mex and swamp pop. At this point, the popular Horace Trahan & the Ossun Express probably didn’t need to solidify its devoted fan base any further but such a fan friendly gesture never hurts either.