Though there aren’t as many various artist Cajun-zydeco compilations being released these days, The Rough Guide to Cajun & Zydeco is one of the few that actually makes sense. Instead of featuring randomly selected tracks or historically based selections showing where the genre has been, music journalist/OffBeat contributor Herman Fuselier selected 15 tracks showing where [...]
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Various Artists, The Rough Guide to Cajun and Zydeco (World Music Network)
February 1, 2012 – 12:46 am
Various Artists, En Français: Cajun ‘n’ Creole Rock ‘n’ Roll (Bayou Teche Records)
November 1, 2011 – 12:53 am
UPDATED What happens when producer Louis Michot of the Lost Bayou Ramblers translates rock classics into contemporary Cajun/Creole music? Alchemy, pure alchemy. Not that the originals by the Who, the Doors, Neil Young and more weren’t 14-karat to begin with, but try making something new out of any one of them that still retains a [...]
Louisiana’s Grammy Hopefuls Have the Blues
December 2, 2010 – 11:34 am
While Eminem, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry were some of the bigger names recognized at the Grammy nominations ceremony last night, Louisiana owned the Contemporary Blues Album category. Traditional Louisiana Grammy nominees Lil Wayne, Terence Blanchard and Irma Thomas are on the bench this year, but television gives Louisiana some of its best [...]
Johanna Divine, Mile-High Rodeo (Independent)
September 1, 2010 – 12:45 am
Johanna Divine did what any aspiring singer-songwriter does—she wrote a batch of songs with plans to eventually record them on voice and guitar. But when producer Dirk Powell heard them and realized the Nouveau String Band front gal’s affinity for ’30s Western swing, ’50s torch jazz and rockabilly, not to mention early ’60s country, genre-hopping [...]
Feufollet, En Couleurs (Feufollet)
July 1, 2010 – 12:48 am
Early on, the Cajun wunderkind Feufollet proved capable purveyors of the trad dancehall variety. By their third album, Tout Un Beau Soir, a self-awareness established the framework that they have built upon ever since. Granted, they can still slam it in a traditional dancehall sense, but the disc’s beauty lies within its cavernous creativity, boundless [...]
Feufollet: No More Kid Stuff
April 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Though the Grammy infrastructure may have overlooked one of the deepest Cajun music releases of 2008—Feufollet’s Cow Island Hop—the sextet of college-age, young adults aren’t losing any sleep over it. And for good reason. In the last six months, no Cajun band has garnered more national exposure than Feufollet, thanks to appearances on NPR’s All [...]
Feufollet, Low Island Hop (Valcour)
May 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
Cow Island Hop finds Feufollet all grown up with somewhere to go. Formed in 1995 by accordionist and fiddler Chris Stafford and Chris Segura when Stafford was 8 and Segura was 11, Feufollet grew into its own a while back but now seems as self-assured as a veteran Cajun band should. There have been personnel [...]
