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Bayou Deluxe: The Best of Michael Doucet & Beausoleil
: essential recording:Beausoleil may have originated as Cajun purists, but Cajun music itself has always been a rich, creolized mixture combining Southern country and folk music with traditional songs from France's Brittany region. Revealing the band's own increasingly wide-ranging stylistic borrowings over the course of the 15-year period it encompasses, Bayou Deluxe includes everything from raving remakes of some early material ('Le Jig Français') to a mazurka from the Seychelles ('Chez Seychelles') to a French duet with Richard Thompson ('Sur le Pont de Lyon'). It also includes plenty of the incandescent two-steps and ...
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L' lAmour Ou la Folie
: essential recording:Recorded shortly after Beausoleil celebrated their 20th anniversary, L'Amour ou la Folie ('Love or Folly') finds them at the height of their confident, highly spirited, and considerably unstagnant powers. By now the sextet transcends the dancehall, possessing the ability to transform nearly any traditional Cajun, Creole, or French tune into high art while preserving a clear sonic bloodline back to its roots. Guests Richard Thompson, clarinetist Dr. Michael White, and lap-steel guitarist Bessyl Duhon are lagniappe on a record that encompasses everything from happy and sad old-timey waltzes, two-steps, and ballads, ...
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Christmas Bayou
: essential recording:Recorded shortly after Beausoleil celebrated their 20th anniversary, L'Amour ou la Folie ('Love or Folly') finds them at the height of their confident, highly spirited, and considerably unstagnant powers. By now the sextet transcends the dancehall, possessing the ability to transform nearly any traditional Cajun, Creole, or French tune into high art while preserving a clear sonic bloodline back to its roots. Guests Richard Thompson, clarinetist Dr. Michael White, and lap-steel guitarist Bessyl Duhon are lagniappe on a record that encompasses everything from happy and sad old-timey waltzes, two-steps, and ballads, ...
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Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson
:Album Description:Import reissue of this 1994 tribute to Folk/Rock singer/songwriter Richard Thompson. Features faithful covers and reinterpretations by X, R.E.M., Dinosaur Jr., Graham Parker, June Tabor, Los Lobos, David Byrne, Maddy Prior & Martin Carthy, Bonnie Raitt and more. EMI.
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The Best of Beausoleil
:Album Description:Import reissue of this 1994 tribute to Folk/Rock singer/songwriter Richard Thompson. Features faithful covers and reinterpretations by X, R.E.M., Dinosaur Jr., Graham Parker, June Tabor, Los Lobos, David Byrne, Maddy Prior & Martin Carthy, Bonnie Raitt and more. EMI.
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Cajunization
: :Just as the displaced Acadians moved from present-day Nova Scotia to the verdant Louisiana bayou in the 18th century and went on to 'Cajunize' the region, so too do Beausoleil seek to color an array of musical styles on Cajunization. There's 'Cajunization Blues,' 'Cubano Bayou,' and even a surf ditty, 'Atchafalaya Pipeline.' If the idea of taking Cajun rhythmic and instrumental flavors and dolloping them across musical styles sounds alarming--even in theory--consider the impact Afro-Cuban rhythms have had on jazz and pop since the 1930s, and then listen to what Doucet and company ...
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Lucifer Rising
: :Just as the displaced Acadians moved from present-day Nova Scotia to the verdant Louisiana bayou in the 18th century and went on to 'Cajunize' the region, so too do Beausoleil seek to color an array of musical styles on Cajunization. There's 'Cajunization Blues,' 'Cubano Bayou,' and even a surf ditty, 'Atchafalaya Pipeline.' If the idea of taking Cajun rhythmic and instrumental flavors and dolloping them across musical styles sounds alarming--even in theory--consider the impact Afro-Cuban rhythms have had on jazz and pop since the 1930s, and then listen to what Doucet and company ...
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Live in Louisiana
:Album Description:This rollicking disc captures the adventurous spirit of the Grammy-winning 'World's Greatest Cajun Band' performing high-energy two-steps, blues, reels and zydeco from across their expansive repertoire in celebration of their 30th anniversary. Tracked in 2006 in the heart of Cajun and Creole country, 'Live in Louisiana' features first-ever live versions of a dozen songs from across the 10-time Grammy nominees' storied career.
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Encore Encore the Best of Beausoleil 1991-2001
:Album Description:19 classic tracks from the world's definitive Cajun band. Over 1 hour & 15 minutes of music to move to! Rhino. 2003.
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La Danse de La Vie
:Album Description:19 classic tracks from the world's definitive Cajun band. Over 1 hour & 15 minutes of music to move to! Rhino. 2003.
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