Slightly OT: Cajun music: Starters.

[PATRICK MOORE]

Is Michael Doucet and band representative? For a starter collection
from iTunes, who to choose?

I love this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxCejZOGNSo

Patrick Moore, anglo/irish/filipino and now cajun.

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[PATRICK MOORE]

Forgot to say: this must be Rivendellian in some way!

[EricP]

Really don't know a whole lot of cajun myself (yet), but would recommend the Rounder Records cajun anthology on iTunes, along with stuff by the Balfa Brothers and Balfa Toujours.  The Balfa Brothers are pretty close to the "standard", if there is such a thing in cajun music.  If you hunt around online, there may be some free stuff out there to download, although I haven't looked.

 

(Boring aside - a couple of the fiddlers I play with are into cajun music so I am trying to learn proper guitar backup.)

 

Only stretch I could figure for Riv connection is Bob Dylan has written and played a few cajun type tunes and Grant likes Dylan<g>.

 

Have fun learning about the music!

 

Eric Platt

St. Paul, MN

[George Schick]

I second what Eric says. A good place to start would be with Dewey
Balfa. If you want to see glimpses of him playing live rent yourself
a copy of a rather poor move named "Southern Comfort." It has a
stupid plot and is more or less worthless, IMO, but near the end they
show Balfa playing with his band, while he was still with us.

[Lyle Bogart]

Hey Patrick,

Try this link:

http://www.folkways.si.edu/searchresults.aspx?sPhrase=Cajun&sType=cat

Whenever I'm looking for something perhaps not quite mainstream (a Rivendellian tie-in) this is where I first look. Of course, you can sample each cut here (as you can in many places).

Cheers!

lyle

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[PATRICK MOORE]

Briefly: thanks all; am following up on yer advices. Have already
heard Balfas playing Joli Blon -- very nice!

Back offlist with this!

[EricP]

Oops.  My post to Patrick was supposed to be off-list.  But that didn't happen with the new setup for Groups.  My fault.

 

Sorry about that folks.

Eric Platt

St. Paul, MN

[PATRICK MOORE]

Lyle -- many thanks: will include that link among the many searchable
suggestions I received.

Best, Patrick Moore

[PATRICK MOORE]

Thanks, Eric -- I've listened to quite a bit of the Balfas already on
youtube: good stuff. And I've received many other suggestions to keep
me busy for a while.

Best to you.

Patrick

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[PATRICK MOORE]

I found the Balfas on youtube as well as a mention of Southern Comfort.

Funny, I've been intrigued by Cajun music for a while, but never
really searched for it, but reading a pile of James Lee Burke's Dave
Robicheaux novels provoked me into looking further into it. I love D
Balfa's Jolie Blon!

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