BeauSoleil - The Best Of The Crawfish Years, 1985-1991

Size: 155.7 MB
Time: 66:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues, Zydeco, Cajun
Art: Front

01. Maman Rosin Boudreaux (4:18)
02. Pine Grove Blues (Live From The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, May 23 And 24, 1989) (8:44)
03. La Chanson Du Cafe (Live From The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, May 23 And 24, 1989) (4:40)
04. Jongle A Moi (2:50)
05. Bunk's Blues (4:16)
06. Cochon De Lait (2:57)
07. Zydeco Gris-Gris (3:39)
08. Cajun Groove (Scott Playboy Special) (Live From The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, May 23 And 24, 1989) (5:37)
09. Woman Or A Man (3:16)
10. Chez Seychelles (3:18)
11. Hey Baby, Quoi Ça Dit (2:44)
12. Macaque Sur Mon Dos (3:19)
13. Reel De Dennis McGee (Live From The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, May 23 And 24, 1989) (2:40)
14. Valse Bebe (4:06)
15. It's You I Love (3:33)
16. Johnny Peut Pas Dancer (2:45)
17. Bon Temps Rouler (3:47)

Beausoleil, led by fiddler and singer Michael Doucet, just about singlehandedly brought about the Cajun music renaissance in the '80s, recording several albums that simultaneously paid homage to the deepest traditions of southern Louisiana musical culture and hauled that culture into the 20th century, imbuing its two-steps, waltzes, and keening prairie French love songs with influences that included country, the blues, and rock & roll. The 17 tracks on this Rounder retrospective reveal a band coming of age, digesting their influences and developing a sound that was truly their own. Whether the music itself is tradition-oriented (like the Doucet composition "La Chanson du Cafe") or borrowed from some other tradition (like the band's wonderful rendition of Richard Thompson's "Woman or a Man," featuring Thompson himself on guitar), it always sounds just like Beausoleil. In part that's due to Doucet's good-naturedly graceless singing, but mainly it comes from the particular sense of joy and fun that they manage to bring to everything they play. Highly recommended. ~Rick Anderson

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Various - Louisiana: Live From Mountain Stage 1 & 2

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 59:17
Size: 135.7 MB
Styles: Louisiana blues, Zydeco
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[4:34] 1. Beausoleil - La Danse De La Vie
[4:40] 2. The Neville Brothers - Ayiti
[3:41] 3. C. J. Chenier - Louisiana Two-Step
[5:09] 4. The Radiators - Long Hard Journey Home
[7:51] 5. Dr. John - Such A Night
[3:26] 6. Jo-El Sonnier - Evangeline Special
[5:12] 7. Allen Toussaint - Mother-In-Law Lipstick Traces
[3:34] 8. Al Rapone - Chere Duloone
[4:03] 9. Steve Riley - La Toussaint
[3:32] 10. Queen Ida - Choupik Two-Step
[2:55] 11. Wayne Toups - Johnny Can't Dance
[5:10] 12. Buckwheat Zydeco - Jeleron
[5:25] 13. Terrance Simien - Don't Wanna Cry No More Terrance Simien

Mountain Stage is a two-hour music radio show, first aired in 1983, produced by WV Public Broadcasting and distributed worldwide by National Public Radio (NPR) and the Voice of America's satellite radio service. Hosted by Larry Groce, the program showcases diverse music, from the traditional to modern. It is recorded before a live audience, usually at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia, but occasionally travels to other venues elsewhere in the United States.

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Album: Louisiana 2: Live From Mountain Stage
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 42:38
Size: 97.6 MB
Styles: Louisiana blues, Cajun
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[5:13] 1. Marcia Ball - La-Ti-Da
[3:25] 2. Wayne Toups - Two Step Mamou
[4:37] 3. The Iguanas - Don't Treat Her Mean
[5:57] 4. Dirty Dozen - Caravan
[3:31] 5. Sonny Landreth - Shooting For The Moon
[2:42] 6. Queen Ida - Hey Labas
[3:12] 7. The Subdudes - Angel To Be
[2:29] 8. Jo-El Sonnier - So Long Baby
[4:06] 9. Beausoleil - Menage A Trois Reels
[2:57] 10. C. J. Chenier - Bow Legged Woman
[4:25] 11. Olympia Brass Band - Should I

One of radio's best music shows brings you the very best in Louisiana music on this collection from Blue Plate. Marcia Ball, queen of New Orleans good time blues, does a jumping "La-Ti-Da." There's Cajun music aplenty with the newer sounds of Jo-El Sonnier and Wayne Toups, as well as the traditional reels of Beausoleil. Queen Ida and C J Chenier give you a healthy dose of Zydeco and, naturally, there's a taste of Dixieland from the Dirty Dozen and the Olympia Brass Band. For those who like it on the cutting edge, the Subdudes and Sonny Landreth (killer slide guitar!) are also on hand. As they say in Louisiana, it's "always for pleasure" ... that ain't no lie! ~Lars Gandil

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Various - Raise The Roof: A Retrospective: Live From The Barns At Wolf Trap

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 68:51
Size: 157.6 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Acoustic blues, Folk, Roots
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[6:20] 1. The Nighthawks - Rock This House
[3:44] 2. Deanna Bogart - Peephole
[4:24] 3. Fighting Gravity - I Disagree
[3:20] 4. John Mccutcheon - Yesterday's Fools
[6:04] 5. Nils Lofgren - Some Must Dream
[5:08] 6. The Iguanas - Para Donde Vas
[4:28] 7. The Grandsons - Don't Let Go
[4:34] 8. Speidel, Goodrich, Goggin & Lille - Lefty's Boys
[3:35] 9. Tom Paxton - Did You Hear John Hurt
[3:27] 10. Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer - Daughters Of Feminists
[3:23] 11. Chris Smither - Winsome Smile
[3:38] 12. Cravin' Dogs - First Of September
[4:30] 13. Roomful Of Blues - Two Bones And A Pick
[2:58] 14. Beausoleil - Perky Dance Two-Step
[4:23] 15. Saffire The Uppity Blues Women - Some Cold And Rainy Day
[4:49] 16. Eddie From Ohio - Great Day

Reviewed in The Washington Post by Richard Harrington, Wednesday, February 2, 2005: "That two conjoined 18th-century barns could prove so hospitable to so much fine music won't surprise anyone who's ever visited them at Wolf Trap. In fact, 17 acts have recorded live albums at the Barns since they opened in 1981 as the smaller, year-round adjunct of Wolf Trap, and a handful of compilations have also come out of assorted folk-focused programs. This new CD gathers one track from each of 16 artists, about half of them local, and captures the venue's populist appeal, nowhere more raucously than in the opening track, "Rock This House," a Jimmy Rogers blues classic delivered with typical bravado by the Nighthawks. The Barns' juke joint feel is brought home in similarly energized performances by the Deanna Bogart Band, the Grandsons and the aptly named Roomful of Blues, who romp through the T-Bone Walker instrumental, "Two Bones and a Pick." Beausoleil's "Perky Dance Two-Step" and the Iguanas' sinewy "Para Donde Vas" exemplify why the Barns also doubles so effectively as a dance hall. On the other hand, its superb acoustics are well suited to the subtler singer-songwriter offerings of Nils Lofgren (the airy, hopeful "Some Must Dream"), John McCutcheon and Chris Smither. Among the previously unreleased tracks: Tom Paxton's gentle evocation of the '60s folk boom, "Did You Hear John Hurt?," with harmonies from Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, whose wry and mirthful "Daughters of Feminists" is a highlight. So is Eddie From Ohio's "Great Day," a rousing a cappella gospel quartet built around Julie Murphy Wells's sterling lead and underscored by clapping hands and tapping feet."

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