Pine Leaf Boys – La Musique CD 520

Description

CD 520

1. Pine Leaf Boy Two-Step
2. I’m Not Lonesome Anymore
3. La Belle Josette
4. New Family Waltz
5. Blues de Bosco
6. La Branche de Murier
7. Homage a Poullard
8. La Valse de Vieux Charpentier
9. Festival Acadien Waltz
10. Chez Moreau
11. I’ll Have to Forget You
12. Les Barres De La Prison
13. Valse de Josephine
14. Lawtell Two-Step

REVIEW

“Pine Leaf Boys represent the youth wing of Cajun music and like some of their contemporaries in the English tradition combine gold-plated pedigree (accordionist Wilson Savoy is the son of Marc and Ann) all-round musical talent and shedloads of energy and attitude.  Savoy is just as fine a player as you’d expect while fiddler Cedric Watson is a soaring risk-taker as well as an accomplished player and a worthy heir to his hero Canray Fontenot.  As singers both are heartfelt if occasionally wayward the best voice belonging to Drew Simon behind the drumkit.

The repertoire is refreshingly unhackneyed with many songs from little-known old sources… more waltzes than recent fashion has preferred and some exquisite pieces of Cajun melancholia.  They like to fashion new songs from old ones notably Simon’s soulfully-sung Festival Acadien Waltz and Watson’s Zydeco-flavoured Chez Moreau while Savoy’s Pine Leaf Boy Two-Step shows a promising flair for new composition.”

– Brian Peters fROOTS