Nathan Abshire & The Pinegrove Boys - French Blues
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Artist: Nathan Abshire & The Pinegrove BoysEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-12-01
Music Label: Arhoolie Records
Soundtracks:
- Pine Grove Blues - Nathan Abshire,
- Kaplan Waltz - Nathan Abshire,
- French Blues - Nathan Abshire,
- New Orleans Waltz - Nathan Abshire,
- Pine Groove Boogie - Nathan Abshire,
- Hathaway Waltz - Nathan Abshire,
- Step It Fast - Nathan Abshire,
- Jolie, Petite Juilette - Nathan Abshire,
- Choupique Two Step - Nathan Abshire,
- Valse de Belezaire - Nathan Abshire
- Pine Grove Blues #2 - Nathan Abshire
- Valse de Holly Beach - Nathan Abshire
- Iota Two-Step - Nathan Abshire
- Valse de Bayou Tech - Nathan Abshire
- Musical Five Special - Nathan Abshire
- Avalon Waltz - Nathan Abshire
- Tee Per Coine (Keep A' Knocking, But You Can't Come In) - Nathan Abshire
- New Jolie Blon - Nathan Abshire
- Point de Lou Two Step - Nathan Abshire
- Texas Waltz - Nathan Abshire
- Lu Lu Boogie - Nathan Abshire
- Carolina Blues - Nathan Abshire
- Shamrock Waltz - Nathan Abshire
- Mama Rosin - Nathan Abshire
- L.S.U. French Waltz - Nathan Abshire
- Crying Pine Grove Blues - Nathan Abshire
- Red Rock Waltz - Nathan Abshire
- Cannon Ball Special - Nathan Abshire
Music reviews of French Blues
Music Review: French Blues, Indeed
Rating: 4 Stars
Well, it is about time that I started to review some of the work of the good old boys and girls from the bayous down in Cajun country. Places like Lafayette and Lake Charles evoke memories of time and place in Cajun musical history. You know at the edges of the places where the likes of Hank Williams and Jerry Lee Lewis learned their crafts. And places where all kinds of mixes of music and races blended to form unique sounds all their own. Accordions, washboards, fiddles, guitars and what ever came to hand on those whiskey-drenched Saturday nights.
And on those nights come names like Clifton Chenier and Booboo Chavis that form the black influenced strand of the music. The Hackberry Ramblers and the likes of Waylon Thibodeaux form another, the good old white boys. French Acadian exiles, English "swamp foxes" of undetermined origin, black escaped slaves, "poor white trash"- it is all there mixed in one form or another. For the most part there were no serious conscious attempts to mix the strands but how could the intermixing influences be avoided in that small isolated area of southwest Louisiana. And all under the umbrella of what I call the "French blues". Get your dancing slippers on.
If you, like me, need to have your Cajun music with accordion then your first stop is to this band under review, Nathan Abshire and his Pine Grove Boys. For pure Saturday night party time down in Cajun country the band with Abshire leading the way with his accordion can't be beat. Listen up to "Pine Grove Blues", the classic title track "French Blues, "The New Jolie Blon", "Mama Rosin" and a super "Cannon Ball Special"
Description of French Blues
Nathan Abshire is the king of the bayou accordion. Abshire has proven he still reigns with this 78-minute, 28-track collection of tunes from 1949 and on. These are old tracks, with the rough sound of old 78s, but rough and tumble playing on tracks like "Jolie Blonde" are totally inspired! He gives the music life as he plays with abandon, sings like a banshee, and takes his various bands wandering through Texas tunes, bluesy crossovers, and even some modern surprises (check the rhythmic games they play on "Musical Five Special"). The charm of "Shamrock Waltz" and the 1949 version of "Pine Grove Blues" are reason enough to own this collection. --Louis GibsonGeneral CDs
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