Cajun and Zydeco

	Silverlined by: Donna the Buffalo :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.
	Dans les Airs by: Le Vent Du Nord :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.
	Zydeco by: Various Artists : :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 ...
	The Big Easy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by: Various Artists : 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 ...
	The Ultimate Collection by: Buckwheat Zydeco : :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 ...
	Zydeco's Greatest Hits by: Various Artists : :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 ...
	The Very Best of the Meters by: The Meters : :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 ...
	Choo Choo Boogaloo by: Buckwheat Zydeco : 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 ...
	Made in the Shade by: Red Stick Ramblers : 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 ...
	Bayou Deluxe: The Best Of Michael Doucet & Beausoleil by: Michael Doucet w, 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 ...