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The Hackberry Ramblers (also known as the Riverside Ramblers) is a Grammy Award-nominated Cajun music band based in Hackberry, Louisiana and formed in 1933. Since its heyday in the late 1930s it has become one of the most recognized names and influential groups in Cajun music.
Another examples of the album's musical complexity is the song "Eleven", which is named after its unusual time signature of 11/8. The song and album title "Seas of Cheese" would later be referenced in the song "DMV" on their next album Pork Soda , as well as the song "Dirty Drowning Man" on 1999's Antipop .
Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys are an American Cajun band from southern Louisiana. [1] The band formed in 1988 and has since recorded 10 albums, nine of which are on Rounder Records . The band includes Steve Riley ( accordion , b. 1969), David Greely ( fiddle ), Sam Broussard ( guitar ), Burke Riley (drums/guitar) and Philippe Billeaudeaux ...
The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music Vol. 2 (1974) J'ai Vu le Loup, Le Renard et la Belette (1976, re-released Rounder Records, 1988) The Balfa Brothers and Nathan Abshire: The 1970 NYC Cajun Concert (Field Recorders Collective, 2008) The Balfa Family: A Retrospective - Festivals Acadiens et Créoles 1977-2010 (Valcour Records, 2012) [3]
Without the Ramblers' consent, Joe signed over the rights of the song to Decca, recording a follow-up song called "Answer to Wondering" in 1937. Over the next year, he left the Hackberry Ramblers and started his own group using a variety of musicians including Papa Cairo, Wayne Perry, Happy Fats, and Doc Guidry. He had 3 more recording sessions ...
Mayeus Lafleur (born in Mamou, Louisiana in 1906) was one of the earliest musicians to record Cajun music. Along with fellow musician Leo Soileau , he recorded the standard "He Mon" (which is widely considered to be only the second recorded documentation of the genre), [ 1 ] in 1928. [ 2 ]
Tax Day is coming up fast — April 18! — but for certain dog owners, every day is Tax Day. Or at least, that's how Matt Hobbs sees it. He's the Atlanta-based songwriter behind the viral hit ...
Miller was born in Iota, Louisiana, on May 5, 1922, [1] and spent many childhood years in El Campo, Texas. [2] He lived most of his life in Crowley, where in the late 1930s he played guitar with several Cajun bands, including the Four Aces, the Rice City Ramblers, and the Daylight Creepers.