Author Archives: Michael Tisserand

Choir Practice

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David King Dunaway, How Can I Keep From Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger (Random House)

Among the many anecdotes from David King Dunaway’s anecdote-rich biography of folk music legend Pete Seeger is this one: in the summer of 1955, after a folk festival somewhere in Louisiana, Seeger was invited to a house “outside of town” to learn Cajun songs. Seeger arrived to discover that he was in the home of [...]

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Zydeco: What’s in A Word?

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The House That “Toot Toot” Built

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From the Get-Go with Paul Cebar

Paul Cebar drives the streets of Milwaukee, sniffing the night air for funk – real funk. “That’s Jones Island, the waste treatment plant,” he says, referring to the bouquet of burning rubber and grinding metal that’s come upon us. A few miles down the road, he sniffs out the perfume rising from The Red Star [...]

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Jason Berry, The Spirit of Black Hawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians (University Press of Mississippi)

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Blu Lu Barker, Blu Lu, Wee Bea & Baby Dee: Don’t You Feel My Leg (Delmark)

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Exploring the Zydeco Clubs of Louisiana

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Chris Ardoin and Double Clutchin’, Lick It Up! (Maison de Soul)

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