Chris Belleau & The Zydeco Hounds - Repeat Offender

Size: 123,1 MB
Time: 52:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Blues Zydeco
Art: Front

01. Bourre (4:06)
02. Get My Money (4:22)
03. Way Out In The Country (3:46)
04. Willamena (3:59)
05. Easy Credit Loving (3:10)
06. The Hanging Waltz (4:51)
07. Walking Back To Texas (4:39)
08. Repeat Offender (5:31)
09. Catahoula Two Step (5:30)
10. Hot Tamale Baby (4:17)
11. Wrong For So Long (3:51)
12. Funky On The Bayou (4:07)

Together since the early '90s, Zydeco Hounds are always sought out when one is looking for some of the finest Cajun and zydeco musical entertainment. Chris Belleau is a physiatrist (a specialist in physical therapy and rehabilitation) by day, at night you can find him cookin' up a storm with the Zydeco Hounds as their accordion player and lead vocalist. Some of the other instruments you might find him playing are the trombone, harmonica and piano. Another bandmember, Greg Ward, has the same occupation as a physiatrist. Greg Ward is the percussionist, playing the frottoir plus. Probably the bandmember who most people will be familiar with is the guest bass player, Joe Osborn. He is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of recorded music. He has played with America, the Carpenters, Neil Diamond, England Dan & John Ford Coley, the Fifth Dimension, Art Garfunkel, the Grass Roots, the Mamas & the Papas, Olivia Newton-John, Helen Reddy, Kenny Rogers, Simon & Garfunkel, Barbra Streisand and Three Dog Night. In 1999, being in semi-retirement, Joe Osborn had moved back to his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. Two of his sons, David and Darren, appear on the 1997 release, Shake It Don't Break It. David Osborn plays the drums and Darren Osborn sits in on the piano and drums. Al Courouleau is the guitarist for Zydeco Hounds. He was the staff guitarist at Studio in the Count in Bogalusa for many years. He has recorded with a lot of different artists including Gatemouth Brown, Luther Kent, and Johnny Winter. Rich Courtney is the drummer for Zydeco Hounds. Some of the artists he has played drums for include Wayne Cochran, Z.Z. Hill, and John Connely. In their live shows and appearing on the album, Shake It Don't Break It, on the bass is Dave Ellis. He is a stockbroker by profession, but also considers being a musician a job because keeping a band tight is work.

Repeat Offender

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Chris Belleau - 2 albums: Swamp Fever / Knee Deep In The Blues

West of New Orleans, east of Lafayette and south of Shreveport lies Baton Rouge, a city that thinks it's still a small town on the Mississippi river. Home of the swamp blues sound, my home town. Music has always tugged at my soul, I remember hearing brass bands as a child. Jazz bands that blew funky blues on the street. I've always loved the sound of the accordian...cajun accordian, what a sound! Rock and roll, jazz, blues and country; it's all served up on the same plate down here in Louisiana.

I started playing music as a child, I chose the trombone, or maybe it chose me. I picked up other instruments later as a teenager including the guitar, harmonica, piano and accordian. Somewhere along the way music swept me away like a flood; I'm still trying to keep my head above the water.

Album: Swamp Fever
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:53
Size: 93.6 MB
Styles: Louisiana blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[6:29] 1. Blues Is On The Rise
[4:13] 2. Hold The One Who Cares
[4:06] 3. Bienville Blues
[4:50] 4. The Healer
[5:43] 5. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
[4:58] 6. When You're Smiling
[3:55] 7. The Treater
[6:35] 8. Swamp Fever

Swamp Fever

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Album: Knee Deep In The Blues
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:42
Size: 120.7 MB
Styles: Louisiana blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[5:15] 1. Let It Go
[3:37] 2. Dance To The Blues With Me
[3:29] 3. Angels In The Swamp
[3:37] 4. Hole In My Heart
[3:48] 5. Jolie Blonde
[3:36] 6. Keep On Trying
[5:24] 7. Knee Deep In The Blues
[3:27] 8. Mamou Two Step
[3:55] 9. Old Train Blues
[4:33] 10. Raining In My Heart
[4:31] 11. She's About A Mover
[4:02] 12. Things That I Used To Do
[3:23] 13. Woolly Bully

Knee Deep In The Blues

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Chris Belleau & The Zydeco Hounds - Shake It Don't Break It

Size: 125,5 MB
Time: 53:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997
Styles: Blues Zydeco, Cajun
Art: Front

01. Shake It Don't Break It (2:32)
02. Ya Ya (4:43)
03. Bayou Pon Pon (2:35)
04. Janine (3:11)
05. Lucille (3:57)
06. Allons A Lafayette (2:40)
07. Big Bone Woman (4:00)
08. Wanted Man (3:43)
09. Sugar Bee (3:03)
10. Joe Pitre A Deux Femmes (3:41)
11. What's Shakin' Down The Bayou (4:07)
12. Les Flammes D'enfer (3:16)
13. Bulldog (2:51)
14. Layin' It Down (2:30)
15. Jambalaya (2:27)
16. Proud Dog (3:49)

This is Louisiana swamp music!

Plenty of cajun/zydeco style accordian topped with blues drenched guitar work.

Chris Belleau and the Zydeco Hounds have been playing in South Louisiana since the early 90's. They are known for playing cajun rock and roll, zydeco and blues.

The instrumentation includes Cajun accordion, Harmonica, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and horns (trombones).

Many of the songs are traditional cajun french tunes as well as originals penned by David Egan, Augie Meyers, Joe Osborn, Gary Vincent and Chris Belleau.

The music is fun and very danceable. It is best appreciated while eating crawfish and sipping on your favorite festive beverage. Play it loud!

Shake It Don't Break It

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