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 …
You probably haven’t traveled enough if you’ve never heard Cajun music, and there’s a good bet you’ve never really two-stepped around the Christmas tree until you’ve two-stepped to either a Beausoleil or Cajun Gold Christmas classic like those found on this 17-track compilation. Alligator Stomp features fiddles, triangles, and accordions a-blazin’ along with the French-sung carols and other …
Bo Dollis and his Crescent City tribe the Wild Magnolias make quintessential Mardi Gras Indian music, brimming with the hedonistic pageantry of gaudy costumes; syncopated, “second-line” beats; and gruff, exhortatory vocals. Life Is a Carnival comes close to delivering the same sprawling splendor as one of the tribe’s town square gigs, with only the title track sacrificing its …
(1999 ‘Tone-Cool’) (57:39/12) Sehr moderat geratenes, arg poppiges neues Album, das eher an die letzten Geschichten von Aaron Neville denn an Zydeco erinnert / this new one reminds me of the latest Neville Bros. releases. Modern pop music from New Orleans, with a little Zydeco left over. European pressing – last copies!Medium 1All Her LovinParadiseMardi Gras In The …
A Joyous album celebrating the Christmas Season with classics from the Caribbean, American and European holiday songbooks re-imagined by trumpeter Etienne Charles and his stellar ensemble featuring jazz and folk musicians from around the globe. MUSICIANS Etienne Charles trumpet & percussion Brian Hogans alto sax Jacques Schwarz-Bart tenor sax Kris Bowers piano/Fender rhodes/organ Alex Wintz guitar Ben Williams …
Taking a cue from his father, Iry LeJeune, who put the accordion back into Cajun music in the postwar years, Eddie LeJeune plays a very busy, yet very fluid, squeezebox; even at his choppiest, as on “Opelousas Waltz,” there’s a smoothness to his execution, and on tracks like “Cadjin du Church Point” and “Johnny Can’t Dance,” he plays …
Viva Elvis: The Album – Special Edition (+1 Bonus Track, “Love Me Tender” with Thalia)
Viva ELVIS – The Album, is a 21st century celebration of Elvis and his music, featuring the voice of the king in a whole new context.
This postmodern studio masterwork invokes the spirit and essence of Elvis from a contemporary perspective, while furthering the revolutionary impulses of Elvis’ sound. Viva ELVIS – The Album re-imagines the king’s own vocal …
LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN is the most ambitious, deepest and varied recording of Buckwheat Zydeco’s career. It is a remarkably conceived, rocking album featuring five new Buckwheat originals and complete reinventions of songs by Memphis Minnie (When The Levee Breaks, made famous by Led Zeppelin), Bruce Springsteen (Back In Your Arms), Gov’t Mule (Lay Your Burden Down), Captain …
Once again, Ray Abshire brings to you the heart and soul of Cajun music. His signature rhythm and smoothness are as pure as it gets. This is authentic Cajun French music at its best. For this album, Ray brings together three of Cajun music s pioneer families. Joining Ray are Courtney Granger, grand-nephew of Dewey Balfa, and Jimmy …
This previously unreleased concept album, a 2-CD set from the Follow That Dream Collector Series, features the Las Vegas masters from February 1972 and the masters and outtakes from the March 1972 sessions at RCA.
Track listing:
Disc 1 – The Album
Side 1:
1. Separate Ways
2. Never Been To Spain
3. You Gave Me A Mountain
4. For The Good Times
5. Fool
6. The …