Beausoleil – Allons a Lafayette & More (CD)

Description

Release Date: 1989

Label: Arhoolie Records

Track List

1. Allons A Lafayette
2. Tous Les Deux Pour La Meme
3. Pauvre Hobo
4. Mon Vieux Wagon
5. La Jolie Blonde
6. Johnny Can’t Dance
7. J’ai Ete Au Zydeco
8. Les Blues A Canray
9. J’ai Marie Un Ouvrier
10. La Valse Du Vacher
11. La Table Ronde
12. Shoo, Black
13. Canray’s Breakdown
14. Donnez Moi Pauline
15. Two Step A Will Balfa
16. La Valse Des Jonglemonts
17. Le Bal A Chataignier

Notes

Beausoleil is the project of fiddle, banjo and guitar player Michael Doucet. Inspired by 78s of the old Cajun masters and French folk music, Beausoleil is deeply steeped in tradition while incorporating modern influences of jazz, rock, and blues. On this 1989 release, master fiddler, Canray Fontenot, joins Beausoliel on four tracks. Fontenot learned to play on a homemade cigar box fiddle at the age of nine, carrying on his family’s string tradition while adding his own modern touches. He has long been hailed as “the greatest black Creole Fiddler of our time.” This collaboration between Beausoleil and Fontenot masterfully revives the old sounds of the south with an edge of the contemporary. Liner notes include English translations of the lyrics and a forward by Michael Doucet.