Reading the lists and catching some flak made me itch to put my own preferences down. What follows is necessarily incomplete because I can’t even pretend to listen to everything that was released this past year, but it’s a pretty good reflection of what I was actually digging in my own space. Alex McMurray – [...]
Tag Archives: Lost Bayou Ramblers
Video du Jour: GIVERS Cover Paul Simon
May 24, 2012 – 2:15 pm
On June 5, a 25th-anniversary edition of Paul Simon’s classic Graceland record will be released in various formats, and in conjunction with the release, a series of videos of artists covering songs from Graceland will be posted online as well. This video, the first of the bunch, was posted by Rolling Stone today, and features [...]
Lost Bayou Ramblers, Mammoth Waltz (Bayou Perdu Records)
April 1, 2012 – 12:56 am
Think you know what Cajun music sounds like? Think again. For the past couple of years, the critical response to live appearances by the Lost Bayou Ramblers at local southwest Louisiana clubs and festivals, as well as far-flung bohemian enclaves like New Orleans’ French Quarter; Austin, Texas; and Brooklyn, New York, has mostly been the [...]
French Quarter Fest Focus: Les Frères Michot
April 1, 2012 – 12:22 am
Any band that lasts 25 years is an institution, which certainly applies to Les Frères Michot. The band celebrated its silver anniversary in 2011 as an acoustic Cajun family band known for its blood harmonies. Rick Michot attributes its longevity to perseverance and having a family big enough, he jokes, to stock replacements. Younger brother [...]
Best of the Beat: On Schedule and On TV
January 23, 2012 – 11:52 am
[Updated] The Best of the Beat takes place Friday night at Generations Hall, and we now have a final schedule for the night. We’ll have music on two stages, and bands will play 45 minute sets. Front Room 6 p.m. – Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses 7 p.m. – Glen David Andrews 9:45 [...]
Back to the Best of the Beat Awards
December 1, 2011 – 12:03 am
George Matters. Buttons and T-shirts proclaimed this simple truth years ago, and on Friday, January 27, 2012, OffBeat agrees when we recognize the great George Porter, Jr. with our Lifetime Achievement in Music at the Best of the Beat. Once again, OffBeat will recognize excellence in the South Louisiana music scene, and we will return [...]
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 [...]
The Lost Bayou Ramblers’ Bastille Day
November 1, 2011 – 12:07 am
The Lost Bayou Ramblers will perform with former Violent Femmes front man Gordon Gano at the Voodoo Experience on Saturday, October 29, and the night before they’ll throw a single release party at d.b.a. The evening’s festivities will celebrate the release of a 12-inch vinyl single “Bastille,” a track from the band’s upcoming Mammoth Waltz. [...]
Lost Bayou Ramblers: Rock en Français
October 1, 2011 – 12:07 am
When Louis Michot and the Lost Bayou Ramblers set up shop to record their upcoming release, Mammoth Waltz, at Dockside Studios, he did what any good bandleader would naturally do: stock up on supplies. And one night he was struck with what he immediately recognized as a great idea: Why not ask the brewer of [...]
YouTube du Jour: Lost Bayou Ramblers
August 19, 2011 – 10:01 am
The Lost Bayou Ramblers were a part of the young Cajun scene around Lafayette that looked to the past for a way forward. In recent years, a number of those bands have turned their attention to the place where Cajun, pop, punk and rock ‘n’ roll meet, and the Lost Bayou Ramblers are among the [...]
