Music
Jojo Reed, Not Your Baby’s Daddy (Zydeco Hound)
As one might guess, the title cut is a zydeco “Billie Jean”: JoJo’s ex asks him why he hasn’t been to see “his” baby, he asks her how old the […]
Richard Lebouef and Two Step, Again, for the First Time (La Louisiane)
When the singer-accordionist is a LeBouef and his band consists of a Picard, an Hebert, a Fontenot, and a Sonnier, you know you’re talking real Cajun music. And because the […]
Wayne Toups, Toups (New Blues)
The odds against a former zydecajun wunderkind’s turning in his best album at the age of 39 are formidable, but Toups not only overcomes them here, he demolishes them. Blue-eyed […]
Mighty Joe Young, Mighty Man (Blind Pig)
If you’ll forgive the obscure reference, everything from the bass line to the cadence to the tone of this album’s powerhouse opening track – “Starvation” – echoes “Trouble,” a smoldering […]
Joe Falcon, Cajun Music Pioneer: Live in Scott, LA, 1963 (Arhoolie Records)
If by some odd chance you’re enough of a Cajun-music fan to have an original, 29-year-old copy of this album on vinyl, you’ll still want to pick up this newly […]
Vin Bruce, Beau Bayou L’Ours (Lanor)
You want songs in 3/4 time? How about seven of them out of a possible dozen? That’s how many country waltzes show up on this French-language country album, and instead […]
