Music
Neti Vaan, Toonzville (Jumping Man Records)
It’s hard to imagine a genre that fiddler Neti Vaan hasn’t tackled by now with her border-hopping eclecticism and folkloric sensibility of culling tunes from around the globe. But should […]
Ray Abshire, Arrete Pas La Musique (Swallow Records)
Country honker George Jones coined it; Dewey Balfa practically transformed Jones’ “Don’t Stop the Music” hit title, translated as “Arrête Pas La Musique,” into a cultural mission statement of its […]
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 […]
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 […]
