Music
Keith Frank, Live at Slim’s Y-Ki-Ki (Shanachie)
This ’98 Labor Day weekend gig, Frank’s first live recording, is zydeco heaven. Frank’s Soileau Zydeco Band is known for four hour shows without a pause. But on holiday weekends […]
Leeroy Thomas with Special Guest Leo Thomas, I’m A Bad Sucka For Ya (Bad Weather)
Last summer the father-son, dressed-to-the-nines zydeco tandem Leo and Leeroy Thomas had hopes of being the first z-band to release consecutive discs within nine months. A month after their dog […]
Terrance Simien, Positively Beadhead (Tone-Cool)
Just as Clifton Chenier blended the sounds of his day to give birth to the crying baby of zydeco, similarly in the nineties, Terrance Simien uses contemporary materials to coin […]
Fest Focus: Mamou Prairie Band
“This band has never been this, tight,” says Randy Vidtine, guitarist with the rising Mamou Prairie Band. A Cajun music veteran since his high school days in Evangeline Parish, Vidrtine […]
