Name: Cajun Pride
Brand: Rounder Select
SKU: 19046
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Cajun Pride

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Album: Cajun Pride
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Lake Arthur Special
2)	Juste une Affaire
3)	Pine Grove Blues
4)	Lawtell Two Step
5)	Valse de Grand Mamou, La
6)	French Blues
7)	Mamou Two-Step
8)	Midnight Waltz
9)	Step It Fast
10)	Jolie Fille
11)	Am‚d‚ Ardoin
12)	Johnnie Fais Bien

Performer Notes

Personnel: Jo-El Sonnier (vocals, guitar, French accordion); David Doucet (guitar); "Junior" Martin (steel guitar); Michael Doucet, Tony Thibodeaux (fiddle); David Egan (piano, background vocals); Peter Schwarz (bass); Danny Zeringue (drums).
Recorded at Dockside Studio, Maurice, Louisiana in October, 1995. Includes liner notes by Jim Bessman.
CAJUN PRIDE was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.
Personnel: Jo-El Sonnier (vocals, guitar); David Doucet (guitar); Junior Martin (steel guitar); Tony Thibodeaux, Michael Doucet (fiddle); David Egan (piano); Danny Zeringue (drums).
Audio Mixer: Tony Daigle.
Liner Note Author: Jim Bessman.
Recording information: Dockside Studio, Maurice (10/1995).
Photographer: Rick Ilivier.
Arranger: Jo-El Sonnier.
The roots-Cajun accordion virtuoso returns with an album that's particularly exquisite, even by his own high standards. Don't take the title too literally, however; several of the songs here--especially the '70s-penned "Juste an Affaire"--also reflect Sonnier's tenure as a mainstream country star (ditto the haunting pedal steel guitar that decorates "Midnight Waltz"). Sonnier's Cajun side is hardly stinted, of course, and the rootsiest numbers here--the sort of Cajun-minimalist "Lake Arthur Special" and the fiddle-driven "Pine Grove Blues" (made famous by the legendary Nathan Abshire) are among the album's best. Sonnier even finds a way to breathe life into Chuck Berry's too-often-covered "Johnny B. Goode," here rendered charmingly in French as "Johnny Fais Bien."