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Allons a Lafayette
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Originally Released: 1988
Discs: 1
Label: Arhoolie
Item Number: 29703082

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Allons a Lafayette
Track Listings
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1.    Allons a Lafayette Let's Go to Lafayette :: Let's Go To Lafayette
2.    Tous Les Deux Pour la Mˆme :: For The Same Girl
3.    Pauvre Hobo (Poor Hobo) :: Poor Hobo
4.    Mon Vieux Wagon :: My Old Wagon
5.    Jolie Blonde, La :: The Pretty Blonde
6.    Johnny Can't Dance
7.    J'Ai Eta au Zydeco (I Went to the Zydeco) :: I Went To The Zydeco
8.    Blues a Canray, Les
9.    J'Ai Marie un Ouvrier (I Married a Carpenter) :: I Married A Carpenter
10.    Valse du Vacher, La (Cowboy Waltz) :: Cowboy Waltz
11.    Table Ronde, La (The Round Table) :: The Round Table
12.    Shoo, Black - (previously unreleased)
13.    Canray's Breakdown
14.    Donnez Moi Pualine (Give Me Pauline) :: Give Me Pauline
15.    Two-Step a Will Balfa
16.    Valse des Jonlemonts, La (The Pensive Waltz) :: The Pensive Waltz
17.    Bal a Chataignier, Le (The Dance at Chataignier) :: The Dance At Chataignier
Personnel: Michael Doucet (vocals, guitar, fiddle); Canray Fontenot (vocals, fiddle); Sonny Landreth (slide guitar, dobro); Errol Verret (accordion); Tina Pilione (bass); Tommy Alesi (drums); Billy Ware (percussion).

Producers: Michael Doucet, Chris Strachwitz.

Includes liner notes by Michael Doucet.

Composer: Canray Fontenot.

Personnel: Michael Doucet (vocals, violin, fiddle); Canray Fontenot (vocals, fiddle); David Doucet (vocals, guitar); Tommy Comeaux (guitar, mandolin); Sonny Landreth (slide guitar, dobro); Errol Verret (accordion); Tommy Alesi (drums); Billy Ware (spoons, triangle, percussion).

Liner Note Author: Michael Doucet.

Recording information: Crowley, Los Angeles, CA (05/19/1981-06/15/1985); Eunice, LA (05/19/1981-06/15/1985); Lafayette (05/19/1981-06/15/1985).

Photographer: Elemore Jr. Morgan.

Arranger: Michael Doucet.

ALLONS A LAFAYETTE, Beausoleil's second 1988 release (the other is the excellent HOT CHILI MAMA), is distinguished by the presence of the great Canray Fontenot. Considered by many to be the finest Creole fiddler still playing in the old French style, Fontenot's nimble, melodic playing and expressive vocals, which seem to draw as much from African chants as from Louisiana sources (especially on "La Table Ronde"), grace several of the tracks here.

Of course, Beausoleil, and founder and fiddler Michael Doucet, are no slouches either--and their tasty treatment of traditional Cajun music is brought to life by the instrumentalists' scintillating chemistry. Triangle and spoons lend percussive support to the strains of fiddle, accordion, guitar, mandolin and dobro. With bluegrass-inflected numbers such as "Two-Step A Will Balfa," mournful, minor key love ballads such as "Donnez Moi Pauline," and bluesy grooves such as the Fontenot-assisted "Les Blues A Canray," Beausoleil has created another varied and thoroughly enjoyable roots-conscious disc.


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