I found the Balfas on youtube as well as a mention of Southern Comfort. Funny, I've been intrigued by Cajun music for a while, but never really searched for it, but reading a pile of James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels provoked me into looking further into it. I love D Balfa's Jolie Blon!
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:03 AM, George Schick <bhim...@gmail.com> wrote: > I second what Eric says. A good place to start would be with Dewey > Balfa. If you want to see glimpses of him playing live rent yourself > a copy of a rather poor move named "Southern Comfort." It has a > stupid plot and is more or less worthless, IMO, but near the end they > show Balfa playing with his band, while he was still with us. > > On Apr 7, 7:45 am, EricP <ericpl...@aol.com> wrote: >> Really don't know a whole lot of cajun myself (yet), but would recommend >> the Rounder Records cajun anthology on iTunes, along with stuff by the >> Balfa Brothers and Balfa Toujours. The Balfa Brothers are pretty close to >> the "standard", if there is such a thing in cajun music. If you hunt >> around online, there may be some free stuff out there to download, although >> I haven't looked. >> >> (Boring aside - a couple of the fiddlers I play with are into cajun music >> so I am trying to learn proper guitar backup.) >> >> Only stretch I could figure for Riv connection is Bob Dylan has written and >> played a few cajun type tunes and Grant likes Dylan<g>. >> >> Have fun learning about the music! >> >> Eric Platt >> St. Paul, MN >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Friday, April 6, 2012 9:34:30 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: >> > Is Michael Doucet and band representative? For a starter collection >> > from iTunes, who to choose? >> >> > I love this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxCejZOGNSo >> >> > Patrick Moore, anglo/irish/filipino and now cajun. >> >> > Reply offllist, please >> >> > -- >> > Patrick Moore >> > Albuquerque, NM >> > For professional resumes, contact >> > Patrick Moore, ACRW >> >http://resumespecialties.com/index.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
