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Silverlined
:Album Description:Embodying the culmination of two decades of collaboration between founding members Tara Nevins and Jeb Puryear, Donna The Buffalo’s 2008 album builds on the band’s signature sound - a bedrock of traditional mountain music infused with elements of Cajun, rock, folk, reggae and country. The album also includes the talents of such well-known guests as Béla Fleck, Claire Lynch, David Hidalgo and Amy Helm. 13 tracks.
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Dans les Airs
:Album Description:Embodying the culmination of two decades of collaboration between founding members Tara Nevins and Jeb Puryear, Donna The Buffalo’s 2008 album builds on the band’s signature sound - a bedrock of traditional mountain music infused with elements of Cajun, rock, folk, reggae and country. The album also includes the talents of such well-known guests as Béla Fleck, Claire Lynch, David Hidalgo and Amy Helm. 13 tracks.
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Homemade Songs
:Album Description:Embodying the culmination of two decades of collaboration between founding members Tara Nevins and Jeb Puryear, Donna The Buffalo’s 2008 album builds on the band’s signature sound - a bedrock of traditional mountain music infused with elements of Cajun, rock, folk, reggae and country. The album also includes the talents of such well-known guests as Béla Fleck, Claire Lynch, David Hidalgo and Amy Helm. 13 tracks.
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Zydeco
: :From the get-go, Putumayo Presents Zydeco is the down-and-dirtiest most-rockin' Saturday night at a sweaty bayou dance hall or juke joint a non-native can experience. Born of the Creole community in Louisiana's backwaters and moving outward to Texas and California, Zydeco bumps, grinds, and is a wang dang doodle of a big time. Youngblood Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band rip through 'Co Fa' with their trademark double-kick beat, the low-end-amped-up sound making heartbreak sound like a raunchy roll in ...
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The Big Easy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
: essential recording:While it didn't do for Louisiana music what the film The Harder They Come did for reggae, the soundtrack to director Jim McBride's steamy and stylized cops-and-corruption movie is a pretty good introduction to the region's extensive musical delights (even if gospel's great Swan Silvertones are from West Virginia). The late Dewey Balfa (who appears in the film's sweet porch-party scene) is to Cajun music's rural past what Terrance Simien and Zachary Richard are to its rocking present. Buckwheat ...
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Zydeco's Greatest Hits
: essential recording:While it didn't do for Louisiana music what the film The Harder They Come did for reggae, the soundtrack to director Jim McBride's steamy and stylized cops-and-corruption movie is a pretty good introduction to the region's extensive musical delights (even if gospel's great Swan Silvertones are from West Virginia). The late Dewey Balfa (who appears in the film's sweet porch-party scene) is to Cajun music's rural past what Terrance Simien and Zachary Richard are to its rocking present. Buckwheat ...
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Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast
:Album Description:Nonesuch Records is releasing a benefit album of newly recorded songs featuring artists from the New Orleans music community – across a wide variety of styles – to document the depth, richness and profound musicality of that unique city. Funds from the sale of the record, titled Our New Orleans, will be donated to Habitat For Humanity to aid those affected by the recent Hurricane Katrina disaster. A number of New Orleans’ best known musicians have been asked to record ...
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The Ultimate Collection
: :Thank Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural and his group Buckwheat Zydeco for the many contemporary zydeco releases now available. It was Buckwheat's major-label breakthrough record, On a Night Like This, that brought this rural Louisiana dance music into the mainstream, at least for a time, and his zesty repertoire that won new legions of fans. His accordion prowess also liberated the instrument from its polka-band image. This excellent collection traces Buckwheat's trajectory from 1979 to 1988, peaking with his rollicking accordion-powered party poppers ...
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Choo Choo Boogaloo
: essential recording:Take a spicy Cajun tour through Louisiana's bayou country on Choo Choo Boogaloo! The musical scenery includes foot-stompin', two-steppin,' finger poppin' zydeco emblazoned with hot guitar licks, sassy accordion, and a dash of blues thrown in for good measure. Traditional titles, including 'Get on Board,' 'Iko Iko,' 'Little Red Caboose,' and 'Cotton Fields,' have been well adapted to zydeco style, while 'Crawfish Song,' 'Mardi Gras Mambo,' and 'Give Me a Squeeze, Please' are right at home in this celebration ...
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The Very Best of the Meters
: essential recording:Take a spicy Cajun tour through Louisiana's bayou country on Choo Choo Boogaloo! The musical scenery includes foot-stompin', two-steppin,' finger poppin' zydeco emblazoned with hot guitar licks, sassy accordion, and a dash of blues thrown in for good measure. Traditional titles, including 'Get on Board,' 'Iko Iko,' 'Little Red Caboose,' and 'Cotton Fields,' have been well adapted to zydeco style, while 'Crawfish Song,' 'Mardi Gras Mambo,' and 'Give Me a Squeeze, Please' are right at home in this celebration ...
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