The Carriere Brothers – Musique Creole / Arhoolie CD-512

Description

CD 512

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.

1. Zydeco De Carriere
2. Plante Dans La Porte De Ma Maison
3. Madame Faielle
4. Zydeco Sont Pas Sale Neg
5. La Robe A Parasol
6. Jolie Catin
7. Daddy Carriere’s Waltz
8. Hey Mom!
9. Eraste’s Mazuka
10. Les Barres De La Prison
11. Lake Arthur Stomp
12. Atite Canaille
13. Carriere Polka
14. Chere Catin Blues
15. Colinda
16. Johnny Can’t Dance
17. Blue Runner
18. Baby Please Don’t Go
19. Bebe’s Stomp
20. Home Sweet Home

REVIEW

“This is the real thing!  The Carrieres like Bois Sec [Ardoin] and Canray [Fontenot] play Creole music a rich cultural hybrid that sometimes sounds like Cajun music with a black sensibility and sometimes altogether more African.  It is the precursor of modern Zydeco…The recordings were made near Lawtell Louisiana in 1974 by Chris Strachwitz – Bebe was 66 and Eraste 74.

Both men were in excellent shape as musicians.  We can be grateful to Ron and Fay Stanford for ‘discovering’ the Carrieres and to Chris Strachwitz for recording them.  Far too little old-time Creole music was recorded but the examples we do have are brilliant.  This is a must-buy for anyone with the slightest interest in old-time music in the broad sense of the word.”

– Allin Cottrell The Old-Time Herald