The Mamou Cajun Band featuring Cyp’ and Adam Landreneau, Cajun Sole (Swallow Records)

Renaissance Cadienne, Mon Pere Aussi Ma Mere (Tracas Records)

Clifton Chenier, The King of Zydeco (Arhoolie)

Hadji, Clockwork Deity (Independent)

Dexter Ardoin and The Creole Ramblers, What You Come To Do (Louisiana Radio Records)

Lafayette Rhythm Devils, Pray For Us (Z’affaire Records)

“Never play cards with a guy named Doc, never eat at a place called Mom’s,” Nelson Algren once wrote, but if he had heard the Lafayette Rhythm Devils, he would’ve […]

Jackie Caillier and the Cajun Cousins, Let’s Kick Up Some Dust (Lanor Records)

Oftentimes when a Cajun record is released, it’s impossible to tell which song will become the radio airplay darling since the jocks play their favorites with no uniform consistency. But […]

Joe Hall and Mitch Reed, Joe Hall and Mitch Reed (Independent)

It wasn’t that long ago that Creole lala music appeared to be cliff hanging with all its musical youth swarming to the hip and groovy sounds of zydeco. But thanks […]

Sybil Kein & Charles D.S. Moore, Gardenias & Rosas (Gumbo Records)

Sybil Kein & Charles D.S. Moore: Gardenias & Rosas (Gumbo Records)

Goldman Thibodeaux, Gumbo at Goldman’s (Louisiana Radio Records)

Gumbo at Goldman’s was never intended to be quite like this but given the project’s extenuating circumstances, it’s a good thing these homespun tracks surfaced at all. Falling somewhere between […]