Author Archives: Christopher Courville

The Weary Boys, Jumpin’ Jolie (Weary Boys)

Currently residing in Austin, Texas (by way of northern California) this rowdy honky-tonkin’ band has of late been stopping in Acadiana so often that you can bet it’s not just routing through the Gulf Coast that’s at play. Coming through for Mardi Gras quickly escalates into scheduling gigs as an excuse to make it in [...]

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Rex Moroux, Royal Street Inn, (Independent)

As a guest of the esteemed Royal Street Inn—the rooms upstairs from the R Bar—a visitor puts himself or herself in the likely position to experience and perhaps participate in plenty of the culture that only the uniquely decorated local’s haunt could offer up. Moroux wrote much of the album during an extended stay at [...]

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Stompin’ at the Savoy Faire

Tucked away in an old Acadian-style house standing in a picturesque field on the outskirts of Eunice lies Studio Savoy Faire, where a number of great recordings and more than a few good times have taken place. There has been considerable activity in this small but sturdy outdoor kitchen/studio lately, including the completion of a [...]

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Cedric Watson and Corey Ledet, Goin’ Down to Louisiana (Valcour)

Of all of the musicians to have crossed the Sabine from Texas into our great state in recent times, possibly the strongest impact on fans and musicians alike has come from accordion player Corey “Lil Pop” Ledet and fiddler Cedric Watson. Although each has made an impression touring on their own — Watson with the [...]

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