I'm adoring the Balfa Brothers,* old-school Cajun music at it's best. I don't know much about them; I just know they deliver magnificent, doleful harmonies, wailing fiddles, and thumping rhythms** that make me shudder with plaintive delight. Raw*** and glorious.
* Thanks, Zack (our dear, displaced Cajun).
** Leave it to the Cajuns to take a reputedly simpy instrument like the triangle and make it completely bad-ass.
*** I love a lot of old American music. I dislike many contemporary reinterpretations of old American music. They so frequently comes out all soft and mellifluous. But it's precisely the gutbucket ka-chang ka-chang of the old stuff that makes it so great. Soft mellifluity be damned!
That is a really cool article about the Balfa Brothers. Thanks! You should check out Balfa Toujours. It's Deweys daughters band. Carrying on the tradition. Stay well.
ReplyDeletethe very best music ive ever heard
ReplyDeletethanks dewey and the brothers and the dad.
from uk listener.
truly endearing music,listen to it.