Dave Jordan & The NIA at Flora-Bama Aug. 19-20

Dave Jordan & The NIA at Flora-Bama Aug. 19-20
New Orleans based band’s sound described as “Southern roots rock with Louisiana soul’’

Dave Jordan, a New Orleans based musician who has recorded with fellow yats Art Neville, Anders Osborne and Joe Krown, will be at the Flora-Bama Lounge Package for sets beginning at 10 p.m. Aug. 19-20.
A 20 year vet with six albums behind him, Jordan will play front his current band David Jordan & The NIA.
Founder and frontman of the funk/roots band Juice, Jordan’s most recent work as a solo artist was recognized as one of the Big Easy’s top roots rock acts, an his critically acclaimed solo debut, These Old Boots, was named a Top 10 Local Release of 2010 by nola.com.
“Jordan can clearly rock with the best as evidenced by his work with Juice. Yet, his songs in this stripped down, acoustic format show an inner strength and awareness of the foibles of the human condition,’’ wrote
Keith Spera of nola.com.
After the release of These Old Boots, and without a band, Jordan started a two year, weekly gig at his neighborhood bar, the Banks Street Bar, with a rotating group musicians, which led to the formation of his current band, the Neighborhood Improvement Association.
Described as “Southern roots rock with Louisiana soul,’’ NIA has played some of New Orleans’ most esteemed music clubs.
Offbeat Magazine was especially exuberant in is praise of Jordan, calling him “a rustic, Cajun Paul Westerberg, mixed with a Springsteenian sense of wordplay.”
He released his first album with NIA, Bring Back Red Raspberry, in 2013.
Jordan grew up in Mandeville, LA, a suburb of New Orleans on the northshore of Lake Pontchartrain. He attended Louisiana State University and the University of New Orleans, where his father, Professor Robert Jordan, was the Dean of the Graduate School and a research/graduate professor. His grandfather, Ralph Burdette Jordan was at various times a newspaper editor, Associated Press war correspondent and publicist for Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) studios in the 1930’s. His other grandfather, Merril Hatch was a full colonel in the U.S. Army and served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam before finishing his career at the Pentagon.
In college he studied- and the term is used loosely- English, Cultural Anthropology and Political Science, before he started his first band and forever changed the path he was on.
He is a direct descendant of William Bradford, who came to the U.S. on the Mayflower; he is also part Cherokee Indian; and his ancestors were also among the first Mormon settlers of Utah.
In short, he’s a Pilgrim/Cherokee/Mormon who grew up in New Orleans. A weird, American mutt.