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5E3
10-30-2008, 07:40 PM
I've been listening to a streaming radio station via iTunes (it's under Radio/Blues in the play lists) called Cajun Fest. Some of these tracks are really excellent and can get under your skin in a hurry :D :AOK

Any Cajun music fans here at TGP?
GOLDENSTRAT
10-30-2008, 07:44 PM
Check out WWOZ sunday mornings! fred
atomicmassunit
10-30-2008, 07:47 PM
Oh yeah, it's awesome, like retarded ska/polka. From the heart of Cajun country, I gotta say... love the pay you get when you play cajun/zydeco, hate to listen to it.
5E3
10-30-2008, 07:49 PM
Oh yeah, it's awesome, like retarded ska/polka. From the heart of Cajun country, I gotta say... love the pay you get when you play cajun/zydeco, hate to listen to it.

:rotflmao Dude, I asked for people who like it, not hate it. You gave me a good laugh though! :D

Check out WWOZ sunday mornings! fred

Thanks, will do!

Cheers!
90wreck
10-30-2008, 07:52 PM
Beau Soleil'
End of story for me.
pbradt
10-30-2008, 08:02 PM
YEp. Big fan of the Savoys, The Cheniers, Wayne Toups, etc. Cajun and Zydeco are VERY cool.
bug0711
10-30-2008, 08:08 PM
Buckwheat
bbes347
10-30-2008, 08:54 PM
This is easily the best thread on the internet right now. TGP talking about Cajun music. I've played my share of Zydeco gigs. At this point I've got a love/hate relationship with that music. It makes me proud to be from Louisiana but it's a little tough to listen to. Thanks for starting this thread!!!
Carltone
10-30-2008, 09:19 PM
Love me some Shane Theriot!
Funky Meters!
Neville Bros...
all good...
cottoneyedjoe
10-30-2008, 09:43 PM
Check out my buddy Dirk Powell with Balfa Tujours!

The Balfa Brothers were my first experience into cajun. If they play accordion it has to have buttons NOT KEYS....

It also has to be traditional. Twin fiddles almost old time. The original recordings of the Balfas really knocked me out!
stbhorn
10-30-2008, 09:57 PM
Love it, I play in a Cajun / Zydeco band in SW Louisana!
MBreinin
10-30-2008, 10:42 PM
Love me some Shane Theriot!
Funky Meters!
Neville Bros...
all good...

The Meters and The Nevilles ain't Cajun, brah.

I had a Cajun wife. I have half Cajun kids. I like to cook Cajun. I think I am Cajun'd out. :D
Tahitijack
10-30-2008, 10:42 PM
I am a fan as well. Saw Terance Semmion (spelling?) a couple of years ago and he blew the house away. Zydeco is a high energy happy experience. I can listen for long periods, but some say it is better in small doses, like Hawaiian Slack Key and Surf Music. I love it.
Xabiche
10-30-2008, 10:48 PM
Been playing a lot of Tejano lately... it's all related :)
Xabiche
10-30-2008, 10:49 PM
This is easily the best thread on the internet right now. TGP talking about Cajun music. I've played my share of Zydeco gigs. At this point I've got a love/hate relationship with that music. It makes me proud to be from Louisiana but it's a little tough to listen to. Thanks for starting this thread!!!

You gots to be drunk & partyin' for the 'preciation, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYJK0-WifD0
Uniphasian
10-30-2008, 10:58 PM
Old Timer: Joe Falcon
Newer stuff: Pine Leaf Boys and Racines
Guitar Slinger6
10-31-2008, 01:09 AM
The best bar bands for me have always been Zydeco, love it!
urizen
10-31-2008, 07:25 AM
I like it raw and old timey and/or French blues/valse-styled---Nathan Abshire os as new/slick as I'll take (and new 'n slick he ain't).

Chankachank's cool too.
DiazDude
10-31-2008, 07:32 AM
I did sound a few years ago for Terrance Simien and it was a hoot..super performer. Check out Doug Kershaw...the Rajin Cajun too.
Dave Klausner
10-31-2008, 08:00 AM
I love Cajun music. I just got back from Festival Acadiens et Creoles in Lafayette, LA a few weeks ago.

Definitely check out Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, especially if you get to see them live. Sam Broussard is an amazing guitar player who stretches the boundaries of what Cajun music is without getting too far afield, but they are all excellent players.

For a more rockin' take on some of that stuff, check out the Bluerunners. They mix in blues, country, and swamp pop in a really cool way. Their CD "Honeyslides" is a great place to start with them. Great songs and grooves, and their a console steel player, Will Golden, really rips.
MBreinin
10-31-2008, 08:34 AM
For a more rockin' take on some of that stuff, check out the Bluerunners. They mix in blues, country, and swamp pop in a really cool way. Their CD "Honeyslides" is a great place to start with them. Great songs and grooves, and their a console steel player, Will Golden, really rips.

Good one there. The Bluerunners are really good.

Mike
shallbe
10-31-2008, 08:39 AM
I really dig it. L like Zydeco Joe and the Red Hot Louisiana Band.
Ricky_Rockhardo
10-31-2008, 06:33 PM
Some of the best music around, imo.
scottlr
10-31-2008, 08:57 PM
I grew up with it. My dad was Cajun and listened to his Coonass Music all the time in his workshop. The real deal would be to go see Clifton Chenier or Andrew Cormier and the Rambling Aces at the Rodair Club in Port Arthur Texas back in the late 60s and early 70s. Those old boys had it going on.
Tonefish
10-31-2008, 10:09 PM
Heck Yeah...Tab Benoit and Buckwheat!
Born2Blues67
11-01-2008, 08:54 AM
The best bar bands for me have always been Zydeco, love it!

Party music personified.
straightblues
11-01-2008, 10:14 AM
I was born and rasied in Southern Califonia but I loves me some Cajun and Zydeco music. I think it is great listening and party music. I am not sure what you guys are saying that it is great to play but not to listen to. (and you simply Gotta love washboard players)

My favorite cajun music is Steve Riley and the Maumo Playboys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkc7xOo7k6g&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDxltFDY-7I&feature=related

My favorite Zydeco is Boozoo Chavis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3bvnRV-Zek