Stir up the Roux

Artist: Bruce Daigrepont Label: Rounder Select Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 011661601628 EAN: 0011661601628 ASIN: B0000003B6 Release Date: 1992-02-14

Tracks:

1. Let It Be
2. Red River Waltz
3. Disco Et Fais Do Do
4. The Tracks Of My Buggy
5. Bayou Teche Teche
6. Marksville Two Step
7. Cajiun Girls
8. Another Lonely Night
9. Frisco Zydeco
10. Stir Up The Roux

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1. Coeur Des Cajuns
2. Petit Cadeau
3. Paradis

Customer Reviews:

A good one if you're just getting into Cajun music........2000-06-09

Mixed bag.......2000-06-06

Daigrepont spent time in Nashville before coming home to Louisiana to record Cajun music, and it shows; the recordings are a lot slicker than you'll find on other Cajun albums - "Laissez Faire" even breaks into an a capella chorus (not that it hurts any). Daigrepont is a terrific songwriter, and some of his originals ("La Valse de la Riviere Rouge", "Disco et Fais Do Do", and "Laissez Faire" in particular) are as good as the standards he covers. He has range, too; he's equally convincing as a reformed gambler, a displaced California Cajun, a cheating husband, and a jealous lover. (Not that it's impossible to be all those things at once ...)

However, the last few songs on the album sound as though they were written for the Louisiana Board of Tourism, complete with mindless boosterism and annoying ad jingle tunes. "We're going to spice your life with Tabasco ... we're going to make a Cajun out of you," writes Daigrepont. Whatever. I hope he got money for the product placement. "Frisco Zydeco" and "Stir Up the Roux" are just as shameless.

If you like Daigrepont (I do), you'll want this album. If you just want to check out his music, you might start with his _Petit Cadeau_ instead.

A wonderful cross-sectional representation of Cajun Music.......1999-08-17

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