The Mad Reel

The Mad Reel Artist: Michael Doucet & Beausoleil
Label: Arhoolie Records
Category: Music


Buying details


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 096297039724
EAN: 0096297039724
ASIN: B0000001JI


Release Date: 1994-08-20

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Tracks:

  1. Adieu Roza
  2. Si J'aurais Des Ailes
  3. Cajun Reel
  4. Cajun Midnight Waltz
  5. Pierrot Grouillette Et Mamselle Josette
  6. Contredanse
  7. Madame Sosthene
  8. L'affaire De Perrodin
  9. J'ai Ete Au Bal
  10. Les Petits Yeux Noirs
  11. Awesome Ossun Two-Step
  12. The Mad Reel
  13. La Valse De Penitentiare
  14. La Reel De Barza
  15. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Opening Titles
  16. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Contredanse De Doucet
  17. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Johnny Can't Dance
  18. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Madame Etienne
  19. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Le Traiteur
  20. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Belizaire's Arrest
  21. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Grand Mallet
  22. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Round-Up
  23. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Chanson De Vermilion
  24. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Matthew Est Mort
  25. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Funeral
  26. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Leger's Chase (The Mardi Gras Song)
  27. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': La Visite Au Condamne
  28. Soundtrack 'Belizaire The Cajun': Closing Theme: Madame Sothene

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Less polished Beausoleil means more Cajun/Zydeco.......2007-01-28

BeauSoliel is a standard Cajun band for me. Even with my first listening, The Mad Reel has become one of my favorites. Having worked with a Cajun in New Mexico in 1982, I was turned on to Cajun/Zydeco, I admired him for his passion of induldging in life which lasted until we came across a mountain lion track, he was gone! Lately Beausoleil has been more refined and polished, including more musical styles in their music. The Mad Reel takes one back to their roots and includes many cajun styles. Having recently picked up a Cajun accordion, I enjoy the fact that the accordion takes a more prominate role in this CD. No doubt, Michael Doucet is one of the best vocalists and fiddlers, but his later CDs tend to give the other instruments more of a back seat. Not in, The Mad Reel. If you like BeauSoleil; I also recomend adding Balfa Toujours CDs to your collection as well.

2 out of 5 stars Not the soundtrack.......2006-08-25

I ordered this and sent it back. If you're looking for a soundtrack of "Belizaire the Cajun," in particular the opening and closing song, this doesn't have it. Sure, it has the song but not the performance and not the version you heard and enjoyed in the film. The film version was passionate and rhythmically complex, syncopated. The CD version is shorter, quieter, rhythmically feeble and about as passionate as a lullaby for patients in a dyspeptic ward. I got my money back for misrepresentation.

5 out of 5 stars Mickey Doucet - The Must Have CD.......2001-06-14

I am surprised that the previous reviewer only rated this CD with a "4." I lived for 6 six years in Houston, and listened to cajun and Zydeco shows every weekend morning (broadcast FM out of various locales in Lousiana), and out of all of the cajun/Zydeco music that I have heard, I find the two versions of "Madame Sosthene", especially, the closing theme, to be some of the most hauntingly beautiful music that I have ever heard. I say that if you must have a Michael Doucet/BeauSoleil CD ... this is the one to have.

4 out of 5 stars Listening to Doucet's 'Madame Sosthenes' is pure heaven!.......1998-08-05

The lush green of south central Louisiana for backdrop, Armand Assante's gorgeous face for focus and this wonderful, bouncy, yet very sensual soundtrack for sheer heavenly aural pleasure. This marvelous work is by a duet that never fails us; a do-not-miss cd. (More than makes up for the video's horrid sound.)

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