Ann Savoy: Cajun Music’s Cultural Ambassador

Ann Savoy’s Cajun odyssey has taken her from the Presbyterian coffeehouses of Virginia to the museums of Paris to her husband Marc’s ancestral home in Prairie Faiguitaique, eight miles east […]

Various Artists, Evangeline Made: A Tribute To Cajun Music (Vanguard)

Chris Ardoin and Double Clutchin’, Life (J&S Records)

The Basin Brothers, Deux Violons (Old Man Records)

Nowadays, it’s an unwritten credo that the accordionist, not the fiddler, is the lifeline of a Cajun band as most groups place the accordionist’s name at the forefront of the […]

Various Artists, World Box! Cajun-Sweet Home Louisiana: Performed by Doug Kershaw and Friends/Carnival in Trinidad/Music From Latvia (Spin Art Records)

Jay Randall, The Mirror (Bad Weather Records)

Don Rich, Throw Away The Key (Jin)

The Foret Tradition, Lost in the Fifties (HLE Records)

Mike West, Oddities & Rarities (Binky Records)

Oftentimes a record with the buzzwords Oddities and Rarities emblazoned in the title is another excuse for an artist’s flock to prove they’re not only ardent but anal completists as […]

Lesa Cormier/August Broussard and the Sundown Playboys, Les Memoire du Passe (Acadiana Records)

It’s an often-told story but bears repeating regarding one of Cajun music’s most ironic events. After scoring with the regional hit “Saturday Night Special” in 1972, the then Sundown Playboy’s […]