Time for our annual Cajun and zydeco review, music either inspired by Louisiana or made over there. We check out the new tunes from Rose & The Bros from Ithaca, Shemekia Copeland and Leyla McCalla. We introduce Le Winston Band from Montreal, Seth James from Texas, David Donar from Toronto, Zydeco Soul Shakerz from France, Andy Baylor from Australia and Rodney The Cajun Spur Morgan from Austin. We close our show with a delightful classical music piece inspired by zydeco by Californian composer William Susman.
Kat Eaton – Dreaming About You;
Le Winston Band – Fais-moi tien;
Rose & The Bros – You and Me;
Jack Broadbent – New Orleans;
Seth James – Mamarita;
David Donar – Johnny Can’t Dance;
Delbert McClinton – Two Step Too;
Zydeco Soul Shakerz – The Whiskey River;
Shemekia Copeland – Fried Catfish And Bibles;
Martha Fields – J’entends Siffler Le Train 500 Miles;
Andy Baylor – Kipps Horn’s Favourite Two-Step;
Rodney The Cajun Spur Morgan – Cowboy Skies;
Michael Tarbox – Louisiana Dream;
Josh Hyde – So Long;
Leyla McCalla – Artibonite;
William Susman – Zydeco Madness.
Today we start off with the new music from the Texan violin player Amanda Shires. Then we introduce the new blues singer Shemekia Copeland. A star studded line up helps her on the new record, including Steve Cropper, John Prine, Rhiannon Giddens and Emmylou Harris. Jon S. Williams from City of Cool has some new recordings that he sent to us, so we check that out too. Dan Stuart (ex Green On Red) is back with the new record and legendary songwriter and graphic novelist Peter Blegvad is also back with new music. Dot Dash from Washington are back with the new album Proto Retro. We introduce John Brodeur from New York with his Bird Streets and a duet featuring Lia Pamina and Dario Persi from Italy. Nicole Atkins is live in Cleveland.
