Beausoleil - Alligator Purse
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Artist: BeausoleilEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-01-20
Music Label: Yep Roc Records
Soundtracks:
- Reel Cajun (451 N. St. Joseph)
- Rouler et Tourner
- Carri�¨re Zydeco
- Little Darlin
- Marie
- Valse �¡ BeauSoleil
- Bosco Stomp
- Th�©og�¨ne Cr�¨ole
- I Spent All My Money Loving You
- Les Oignons
- The Problem
- Alligator Purse
- Valse �¡ Thomas Ardoin
Music reviews of Alligator Purse
Music Review: A Purse of Perfection
Rating: 4 Stars
BeauSoleil's Alligator Purse holds more than the usual loose change, comb, and tissues. When you open this handbag you'll do a double-take wondering how you acquired all those treasures!
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet have put out another danged good deal with their latest album, intentionally released last January 20th--the day that Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States.
I heard the band perform the first number on the album, Reel Cajun/451 North St. Joseph St., at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis a few weeks after their release party in Louisiana. It's a heavily flavored Cajun tune, with impressive fiddlin', but it's not quite my favorite on the disc.
Skip over to track #3, Carrière Zydeco, Go ahead, put your player on Repeat Single and listen for about five rounds. It takes me that long before I'm ready to move on to the next song. There must be something salty mixed into the tune because one listen is never enough. I want to hear the hum and build and resolution repeatedly.
I have a similar response to the sixth tune on the album. Valse à BeauSoleil has been recorded several times, but not with a harmonica. How that makes me giddy, I don't know, but it does. I hit repeat again as I mentally waltz about the dance floor to this number. I wonder which one of the band will take up harmonica now? On the album, John Sebastian performs the honors.
In fact, the album is replete with guest musicians. One of my very favorites is the Hammond organ played by Garth Hudson in track # 9. I Spent All My Money Lovin' You, sung in both English and Cajun French, brings a smile to my lips and a shimmy to my hips--almost too much fun, this one.
If you're like me and like to sing along, Les Oignons gives you a perfect chance. Whether you speak French or not, the words are easy to repeat and repeat loudly. I have a habit--bad?--of playing my music at a boosted volume with my windows down and singing "as if no one's listening." Yesterday someone from a nearby car wanted to know what I was listening to because "it sounds so happy!"
Bosco Stomp finds mixed reviews from me. Overall I like it, but David Doucet's singing sounds strained. I loved his voice on his solo album, 1957, but it here it comes off as though he can't quite reach the notes.
This CD sports guest appearances the likes of Andy Stein, Roswell Rudd, Natalie Merchant, and Happy and Artie Traum who add their own interpretations to what Cajun means. More than Cajun tunes however, Alligator Purse gives the listener a bit of bluegrass (Little Darlin'), a Caribbean-scented number (Théogène Créole), and a social critique (The Problem) to name some of the non-traditional songs.
My kids and I loved listening to Michael recite the nursery rhyme about Jim the Fish. No one could quite imitate the Cajun accented words "purse/nurse" however, though we laughed insanely trying.
I know my passion for Cajun is relentless, but who can blame me when I'm consuming Top-of-the-Line morsels such as BeauSoleil's Alligator Purse?
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Description of Alligator Purse
Grammy winners and 10-time nominees BeauSoleil continue their scion-like march through the panorama of American music with Alligator Purse. Over the past 30-plus years, BeauSoleil has been the very heartbeat of Cajun music and culture, keeping it vital through not only their attention to tradition, but also through passionate and inventive experimentation. This time around these twin creative approaches combine yet again, manifesting themselves in some of music s most authentic and recognizable names.On Alligator Purse BeauSoleil s fearless captain Michael Doucet leads the next installment of his musical journey along the lifeline of Cajun music, this time with an all star crew including Natalie Merchant ('Little Darlin'), Garth Hudson ('I've Spent All My Money Loving You'), John Sebastian, Roswell Rudd, Bill Keith and others. His notable friends help Doucet bring the rich folk traditions of south Louisiana into the 21st century through the genius interplay of a new take on Cajun favorites ('Marie') and the Cajunization of modern folk classics. A French language reworking of Bob Dylan s cover of Muddy Waters classic Rollin & Tumblin ('Rouler et Tourner') and J.J. Cale's 'The Problem' stand alongside Cajun and Creole history lessons like 'Reel Cajun (451 St. Joseph St.),' 'Les Oignons' and 'Théogéne Creole,' originally sung for John and Alan Lomax s historic 1934 field recordings.
Alligator Purse is the funkiest history lesson ever created, a sweaty sweep through the lore of one of the most vital veins of America s musical heritage and a stark reminder that musical history is best served by a dance floor, not a museum.
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