Music
Tab Benoit and the Voice of the Wetlands Allstars, Voice of the Wetlands (Rykodisc)
The statistics are staggering. Forty-five years from now it’s estimated that Louisiana will have lost more than 630,000 additional acres of coastal marshes, swamps and islands due to the continuing […]
Smoky Greenwell, Smokin’ Classics (Greenwell Records)
Usually all-instrumental Christmas and cover tune albums reek ’60s kitsch but somehow harmonica hellion Smoky Greenwell redesigns ’em with a 21st century façade and a hipper sensibility. Following the success […]
David Fontenot & Cajun Express, La Couleur de Notre Song (Acadiana Records)
A cover shot of a Cajun quartet playing underneath a tree screams symbolism if you remember Dewey Balfa’s quote about the tree growing one branch at a time. But even […]
Vince Anthony, Just Because I Care (Midnight Gold Music)
Gotta hand it to Vince Anthony. When every other swamp pop papa regurgitates classic fodder from every crossover genre imaginable into the cannon of swamp pop, the Morgan City crooner […]
Kevin Danzig, Kevin Danzig (KEDA Records)
No longer partnered with musical collaborator/wife Cat Woolley, Danzig still leads the nomadic troubadour’s life where stories are indelibly etched within a blink of an eye. Here, on his best […]
Lafayette Rhythm Devils, Runnin’ (Z’Affaire Records)
Since the Lafayette Rhythm Devils’ laudable debut of 2003, things have changed in the lair. The departure of bassist George Toups and fiddler Mitch Reed could have meant the Devils’ […]
Various Artists, Louisiana Blues DVD, A Musical Film by Jean-Pierre Bruneau and Jose Reynes
Now available to American audiences for the first time, Louisiana Blues is an expansively rich documentary of a diaspora culture seen through the eyes and lenses of French filmmakers Jean-Pierre […]
Ronnie Mathews and Throwdown, Just Me and the Bottle (Acadiana Records)
Initially, Ronnie Mathews and Throwdown sound like the next posers to the worshipped throne of zydecajun king Wayne Toups. Peppy, poppin’ and hoppin’ cruises their opening “Accordion Two Step” that […]
Seth Guidry & Louisiana Nights, Les Larmes Dans Tes Yeux-The Tears in Your Eyes (Acadiana Records)
It’s not often that a record label concurrently releases two discs from debuting Cajun squadrons, David Fontenot & Cajun Express and Seth Guidry & Louisiana Nights, as Acadiana Records recently […]
Creole Zydeco Farmers, My Big Foot Woman (Sound of New Orleans)
Fifteen years after their seed had been planted, the Creole Zydeco Farmers continue to burrow deep within the furrows of zydeco with an unquestionable devout passion. The outcropping of Fernest […]
