Canray Fontenot -
Louisiana Hot Sauce, Creole Style, Canray Fontenot -
Louisiana Hot Sauce, Creole Style,
Canray Fontenot - vocals and fiddle with:
(#1-8) Alphonse “Boisec” Ardoin - accordion, Morris Ardoin - guitar, Lawrence Ardoin - drums and Gustav Ardoin - bass. Recorded near Mamou, La. in 1971 & 1973.
(#9-21) Michael Doucet - mandolin and fiddle. Recorded in Welch, La., May 14, 1981.
(#22) Danny Poullard - guitar and Edward Poullard - accordion. Recorded in Long Beach, Ca., June 2, 1991.
(#23-26) Michael Doucet - fiddle, David Doucet - guitar, Sonny Landreth - dobro guitar, Tommy Comeaux - mandolin & guitar, Billy Ware - percussion, Tommy Alesi - drums, Tina Pilione - bass. Recorded in Crowley, La. June 15, 1985.
(#27) Solo - recorded during filming of "J'ai Été Au Bal (I Went To The Dance)" in Spring of 1987 outside Canray's house.
“Canray Fontenot has long been hailed as the greatest Black Louisiana French fiddler of our time. The sounds that emanate beyond his magical strings run the gamut from sadness, loss and despair to joy, fulfillment and wisdoma chosen course that exposes one's most sensitive feelings to life's fullest experiences.” (Michael Doucet) *
Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin with Canray Fontenot -
La Musique Creole
"This CD includes the first album ever recorded by an African American Cajun band. What you hear here however, is not yet Zydeco, but the traditional “French” or “Creole” music of the rural, mostly French speaking African American population of southwest Louisiana.
Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, a cousin of Amédé's, is today carrying on this remarkable family tradition, even though he lost his long time partner and fiddler, Canray Fontenot, to cancer in 1995. From the 1960s into the 90s, "Bois Sec" and fiddler extraordinaire, Canray Fontenot, became the best known exponents of authentic Creole music. They made appearances at national folk festivals from Newport to the Smithsonian and they traveled to Europe. They also became a regular feature at the delightful annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the tourist industry took advantage of Canray's exuberant and winning smile by using his photos in magazines, ads, and brochures to promote the regional culture.
Recorded in 1966 and 1971 & 1973; and previously released (except for #24) on Melodion LP 7330 or Arhoolie LP/C 1970." *
The Carrière Brothers -
Musique Creole
Old Time Louisiana Creole Music (La Vieille Musique Créole de la Louisiane)
Joseph "BéBé" Carrière - Fiddle & Vocals (On B); Éraste "Dolan" Carrière - Accordion & Vocals (On E); Linton Broussard - Drums (On # 16 - 19)
"The Carrière Brothers have preserved for us a wide ranging repertoire of authentic African-American rural Louisiana Creole music ranging from old marzurkas, polkas, and Creole songs to more recent blues, cajun, and zydeco numbers. Their music is born out of these sharecropping families who worked from sunup to sundown planting, hoeing and harvesting, and then played music at house parties in the evening, usually earning barely enough to survive." *
* Cajun & Zydeco Music - Arhoolie Records catalog
Poullard, Poullard and Garnier
This traditional trio consisting of brothers Ed and Danny Poullard and D'Jalma Garnier come together to create a modern masterpiece of traditional Cajun and Creole music. All three spent considerable time with the great Canray Fontenot and decided pay tribute through this collection of traditional tunes.
Filé -
Hold On To Your Chapeau
Cajun and Creole Music, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2: 1934/1937. This set contains the Lomax recordings, which were originally released on LPs by Floyd Soileau's Swallow Records in 1987. The CDs, released by Rounder Records in 1999, include additional cuts, an introduction by Alan Lomax, notes by Barry Jean Ancelet, who is the producer, and transcriptions and translations by Ancelet and Florence Perinet.
Alan Lomax Collection: The Classic Louisiana Recordings:
Cajun and Creole Music, 1934-1937
The Classic Louisiana Recordings, Cajun & Creole Music: A series devoted to the recordings by Alan Lomax and John Lomax in Louisiana in the 1930s and 1980s. "The Lomaxes recorded a whole different side of music in South Louisiana - unaccompanied ballad singers and solo instrumentalists. They recorded styles that were old then, as opposed to styles that were only popular then -- thus deepening our understanding of the roots of Cajun music and its Creole cousin, zydeco, far beyond anything we had known before." --Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press "Contemporary Cajun and Creole musicians have proved right the Lomaxes' desire to preserve America's oldest traditional music for future generations -- they are now retooling and recycling this very material and turning it into brand new-old songs. The release of this expanded CD version will keep refueling this important creative process." --Barry Jean Ancelet
Alan Lomax Collection: The Classic Louisiana Recordings:
Cajun and Creole Music II, 1934-1937
The Classic Louisiana Recordings, Cajun & Creole Music: A series devoted to the recordings by Alan Lomax and John Lomax in Louisiana in the 1930s and 1980s. "The Lomaxes recorded a whole different side of music in South Louisiana -- unaccompanied ballad singers and solo instrumentalists. They recorded styles that were old then, as opposed to styles that were only popular then -- thus deepening our understanding of the roots of Cajun music and its Creole cousin, zydeco, far beyond anything we had known before." --Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press "Contemporary Cajun and Creole musicians have proved right the Lomaxes' desire to preserve America's oldest traditional music for future generations -- they are now retooling and recycling this very material and turning it into brand new-old songs. The release of this expanded CD version will keep refueling this important creative process." --Barry Jean Ancelet Includes Alan Lomax's first Cantometric analysis of a single regional tradition.
Dennis McGee -
The Complete Early Recordings of Dennis McGee, 1929-1930. Yazoo Records