Description
Release Date: 1995
Label: Rounder Records
Track List
- 1 Je M’en Fous Pas Mal
- 2 Tes Parents Ne Veulent Plus Me Voir
- 3 Katherine
- 4 J’ai Reveille a Ce Matin
- 5 Deux Valses a Wayne Perry
- 6 Ca Tu Dis Et Ca Tu Fais Sont Pas Pareils
- 7 La Toussaint
- 8 Between Eunice and Opelousas
- 9 La Valse D’amitie
- 10 Bayou Schwarz
- 11 La Danse de Mardi Gras
- 12 New Orleans Beat
- 13 Entre L’amour Et L’avenir
Notes
A thoroughly exhilarating set of contemporary zydeco music, not as rocked out as (former Riley producer) Zachary Richard, but close. Riley and company, who perform everything in French, run through a set of obscure covers and group originals with drive and stylistic variety. There are two-steps and waltzes galore, the occasional all acoustic number (“Deux Valses a Wayne Perry”), plus up-tempo stompers with inventive guitar work that verge on rockabilly (“New Orleans Beat,” “J’ai Reveille a Ce Matin”). Frontman Riley holds it all together with his appealingly ragged but right singing style; on the country-ish “La Valse D’Amitie,” he actually sounds for all the world like a zydeco Gram Parsons.
