Any zydeco CD that features originals titled “Booty Call” and “Vibrator” is probably not out to please purists, especially when that same disc features covers of scrubboard standards like “La Bamba,” “The Twist,” and Bryan Adams’ “Summer Of ’69.” (Please note the irony. Don’t write in).

And yet, the groove is authentic, with Matte’s squeezebox and fiddle falling right in the pocket – Travis has won the Cajun French Music Association four times now for his skills on the latter – and with the addition of Willie Tee’s sax on four of these 17 cuts, well, purists who aren’t paying attention may not even notice that they’re listening to Little Richard’s “Jenny, Jenny.” Especially since he twists the melody around to something more befitting the disc’s origin in Crowley, La. There are also a couple of fairly faithful covers in “Eunice 2-Step” (reworked as “Sugar Daddy”) and an English-language version of Canray Fontenot’s “Tes Parents Veulent Plus Me Voir.”

His risk-taking doesn’t always bear fruit, though. “Summer Of ’69” has too many melodic and chordal twists and turns to work with the beat, even if Matte does keep pronouncing “nine” as “nohn.” Likewise, the folk-music roots of “La Bamba” can’t erase the memory of Ritchie Valens’ famous adaptation. Songs that might benefit from a little red hot, like “Blue Monday,” are inexplicably left as is, while “Bad Moon Rising” is delivered without enough conviction to make you feel the menace. And while you can imagine “Booty Call” working a live crowd into a lather, it seems a little pandering on disc.

Still, the groove here is tight and fun enough to override most of these objections. “Zydeco Party” seems a little too eager to please, but it’s still hard not to get caught up in the propulsion, and Travis’ frat-boy originals, which dominate, are generally solid. The Kingpins could do even better, however, if they focused on creating the party in the studio, and not just describing it.