Louisiana Cajun French Music from the Southwest Prairies

Louisiana Cajun French Music from the Southwest Prairies Review

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I think track 8 is mislabeled. The label has the Valse de Bombach, but it is not the same song as the Valse du Balfe Brothers' Bambocheur to duplicate that is not an average. The correct title for this song Valse de Pitre Orphelin fact, I'm pretty sure.

Austin Pitre song on this collection is great! I prefer this version ragged but right by the sound of Les Flammes d'Enfer, one on his Swallow 45, which is in Austin Pitre: Essential Cajun Early Recordings.And 'freedom but in the right way! The destructor is, however, track 8! And 'Pitre plaintive violin with a drummer, bass, guitar and electric. Also interesting are the comments on the public dancehall Pitre asked in French, submit the application, because for a man, the host of Massachusetts and a man in New York, probably Ralph Rinzler, who work these and other areas under the recorded 1964 pop Cajun musicians at the Newport Folk Festival.

The EdiusNaquin pieces are historical, some dating back to colonial times! La Ville de Monteau, for example, is mocked stationed Napoleon Bonaparte, the brave French soldiers in Louisiana. That was before the Louisiana Purchase.

La Valse de Balfe was sung by Rodney Platains recorded before World War II by Happy Fats, a popular source of yet another plea was loved Les Balfe Veuves de la Coulee.

The audio quality is very good for recordings of the 60s to mid field, andThe songs are a lot of fun. Highly recommended, as a band 2 with Bois-Sec Ardoin, Canray Fontenot, Isom Fontenot, Aubrey Deville, and Adam and Cyprien Landreneau!

Volume 2 begins with black French Creole sounds of Bois-Sec Ardoin on accordion and violin on Canray Fontenot. Great blues sound! We are fortunate to have these recordings. They took in 1966 for the label's Melodeon Dick Spottswood, Blues du Bayou, which was then released by Arhoolie Records, including La Musique Creole.Here she sings Bon Soir Moreau Canray (not record a 'Tit Moreau, which is a different tune) and a blues Jug au Plombeau during the life of vagrants. Bois-Sec is Eunice Two Step and Quoi Faire, standards originally recorded by his cousin Amed Ardoin in 1930.

Isom Fontenot, a wonderful harmonica player, is accompanied by the Betaille dans l'Arbre, by Aubrey Deville, onstage and Preston Manuel featured on guitar. Just over Isom melodies can be found on Arhoolie's FolksongsLouisiana Acadians. Then Deville and Manuel are in a lively little song, 'Le Vieux et le Vieux Bouef Chariot.

The rest of the songs of Adam Landreneau on violin and accordion Cyprien Landreneau, with Dewey Balfe on the triangle. He starts talking a bit 'after the first song, Rosalie and declares that there is an old, old story of Adam Louis Lafleur learned. The emotional climax of the disc for me is the sad melody Les Pine, singing loud and clear fromAdam. The material is hit hard!

Adam and Cyprien Landreneau appear Arhoolie's Cajun Fais Do Do's Cajun and Swallow the Sun, but Rinzler started their strongest and best on these recordings! The movement ends with a few songs more cheerful n'est pas Pecheur Treville de Danse and lemonade, a comic song in which the singer tells us that he was drunk last night, today for a glass of lemonade (or has requested a dose of healing all Tonic Kary-On!)

Bois SecCanray and played in many dance halls, but the music of other musicians in the old house was dancing and playing a classy environment and the social partners. And 'music for social, a time when we talk, what Dick Spottswood called pre-industrial, the music was over. Well, it's hard not to be updated when it comes to the dignity of the culture so convincing! This set of two albums are essential in my list. I do not want to be stranded on an island without them!