Some Cajun Music
"What sanity looks like" to Jeff Culbreath (or any other decent person), linked to by The New Beginning with some more examples — L'Angelus, "Au Ciel".
Labels: America the Beautiful, Family, Folk Music, The Catholic Faith, The Eldest Daughter of the Church
2 Comments:
Wow, good music, good showmanship. I want to buy their CDs, but I want to see them live more, and maybe marry one of the girls if aren't already.
I am pretty anti-Cajun, mainly because my wife is a Creole of color whose family is from that part of the world. The Cajuns treated them pretty rotten during Jim Crow, in spite of the fact they were only a shade darker than the Cajuns (my wife's grandfather had blue eyes and "good" hair). Their music of course gave birth to zydeco, to the point that it has been told that Clifton Chenier hit on my wife's grandmother.
Anyway, Cajun music was more influenced by white Texas sound of string bands, while at some point, black musicians like Chenier began to translate the blues coming up from Mississippi into Creole French ("Josephine Par Se Ma Femme", "J'suis un cochon pour toi/
Moi fouiller tout autour tes escaliers"). At the beginning, I think both were almost the same until Jim Crow took effect.
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