L'Amour Ou la Folie

by BeauSoleil

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Beausoleil: David Doucet (vocals, guitar); Michael Doucet (vocals, fiddle); Al Tharp (banjo, bass); Jimmy Breaux (accordion); Billy Ware (vibraphone, percussion); Tommy Alesi (drums).

Additional personnel: Augie Meyers (vocals, piano); Richard Thompson (acoustic & electric guitars); Bessyl Duhon (electric guitar, lap steel guitar); Murnel Babineaux (pedal steel guitar); Josh Graves (dobro); Tommy Comeaux (mandolin); Dr. Michael White (clarinet); Harry Simoneaux (saxophone); Dave Pellicciaro (piano, Hammond organ).

Recorded at Dockside Studio, Maurice, Louisiana in April 1996. Includes liner notes by Michael Doucet.

L'AMOUR OU LA FOLIE won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

Starting from their Cajun roots and working their way outward, fiddler/vocalist Michael Doucet and his progressive New Orleans cronies continue to update the Cajun tradition with touches of jazz, pop and world music. Richard Thompson contributes fiery electric guitar to the title tune, and adds some fine acoustic work to "Charivari." Tex-Mex legend Augie Meyers lends his voice and piano to his own composition "Can't You See," an R&B song done here with a zydeco lilt.

While Doucet's impassioned fiddle style is clearly grounded in the Cajun verities, as evidenced by the traditional "Les Blues De La Prison," the addition of instruments that fall quite outside the usual Cajun/zydeco milieu, such as lap steel, Hammond organ and clarinet, widen the scope of L'AMOUR DU LA FOLIE and makes for a perfect mixture of tradition and innovation.