Beausoleil, Michael Doucet - Gitane Cajun
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Artist: Beausoleil, Michael DoucetEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
- Puex Pas Me Refuser
- Gitane Cajun I
- La Femme Qui Jouait Aux Cartes
- La Fleche D'amour
- Lena Mae
- Les Flueres Fleurissent
- Le Soliel Brille
- Bye, Bye, Boozoo
- Le Hack A Moreau
- Me And Dennis McGee
- Malinda
- Windhorse Eyes
- Tu M'as Fate Rire
- Chere Bebe
- Gitane Cajun II
Music reviews of Gitane Cajun
Music Review: Reasonable but not great.
Rating: 3 Stars
Beausoleil are considered boundary-pushers in Cajun music, but actually they tend to be footstep-followers. When Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys added Swamp Pop to their repertoire, Beausoleil followed. When The Red Stick Ramblers and The Lost Bayou Ramblers began reviving the swingin' stringband era of Cajun music, Beausoleil followed, and the result is this. Does anyone find it suspicious that The Red Stick Ramblers, only a year and a half before Gitane Cajun was released, had jokingly begun referring to themselves as "The World's Only Cajun Gypsy Swing Band"? "Gitane Cajun" in French means, of course, Cajun Gypsy. Original? Not so much. But is it good? Yeah, I'd say so.
The musicianship here is phenomenal. Jimmy Breaux's accordion playing is nothing short of masterful, his playing is the highlight of every Beausoleil album he's appeared on. No one in the band is a slacker, either, they're all pulling their weight nicely, including frontman Michael Doucet.
The only true travesty of the record is the severe butchering of "La Femme Qui Jouait Aux Cartes", which is a traditional Cajun song, a beautiful slow ballad. Beausoleil ripped it wide open and turned it into a hokey Caribbean-themed number. Just not my taste, I'm afraid.
If you want to listen to authentic Cajun music, this is NOT the place to look, but the record is a fun one and not bad for a casual world music collector.
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