The Carrière Brothers "Musique Créole" [Arhoolie]

"The masters of old time Louisiana Creole fiddle music." JillemThe 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. 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)

trax:
01 Zydeco De Carrière 02 Planté Dans La Porte De Ma Maison 03 Madame Faielle 04 Zydeco Sont Pas Sales 05 La Robe À Parasol 06 Jolie Catin 07 Daddy Carrière's Waltz 08 Hey Mom! 09 Eraste's Mazurka 10 Les Barres De La Prison 11 Lake Arthur Stomp 12 'Tite Canaille 13 Carrière Polka 14 Chère Catin Blues 15 Colinda 16 Johnny Can't Dance 17 Blue Runner 18 Baby Please Don't Go 19 Bébé's Stomp 20 Home Sweet Home
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