Best Of The Crawfish Years

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Beausoleil includes: Michael Doucet (vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle, percussion); Dave Doucet (acoustic & electric guitars); Sonny Landreth (electric guitar, dobro); Richard Thompson (electric guitar); Tommy Comeaux (guitar, mandolin, bass); Niles Hokkanen (mandolin); Pat Breaux, Errol Verret (accordion); Steve Conn (piano, synthesizer, background vocals). Producers include: Steve Conn, Michael Doucet, Sonny Landreth, Ken Gorz, Ken Irwin. Compilation producer: Scott Billington. Engineers include: Phil Edwards, David Rachou, Rex Hebert. Recorded at Master Trak, Crowley, Louisiana; Southlake, Metairie, Louisiana; Ultrasonic, New Orleans, Louisiana; The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California; La Louisiane Studios, Lafayette, Louisiana between 1985 and 1991. Includes liner notes by Dirk Powell. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Beausoleil, led by fiddler and singer Michael Doucet, just about singlehandedly brought about the Cajun music renaissance in the '80s, recording several albums that simultaneously paid homage to the deepest traditions of southern Louisiana musical culture and hauled that culture into the 20th century, imbuing its two-steps, waltzes, and keening prairie French love songs with influences that included country, the blues, and rock & roll. The 17 tracks on this Rounder retrospective reveal a band coming of age, digesting their influences and developing a sound that was truly their own. Whether the music itself is tradition-oriented (like the Doucet composition "La Chanson du Cafe") or borrowed from some other tradition (like the band's wonderful rendition of Richard Thompson's "Woman or a Man," featuring Thompson himself on guitar), it always sounds just like Beausoleil. In part that's due to Doucet's good-naturedly graceless singing, but mainly it comes from the particular sense of joy and fun that they manage to bring to everything they play. Highly recommended. ~ Rick Anderson
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