SOUNDTRACK: CAJUN RAMBLERS-“Venez à Louisiane” (Moose: The Compilation, 1991).
Back in the 1990s, it was common to buy a compilation or soundtrack or even a band’s album based on one song. Only to then find that you didn’t really like anything else on it.
Maybe that single sounded like nothing else on the album. Maybe the movie was almost entirely one genre, but they had that one song that you liked over the credits. Or maybe the compilation was for something you didn’t know, but a song you really wanted was on it, too.
With streaming music that need not happen anymore. Except in this case.
I bought this compilation, used, recently exclusively for one song, Rheostatics’ “Woodstuck.” It’s a goofy song and this is the only place you can get the studio version. The actual compilation was not well documented, so I didn’t know what the other bands on it might sound like. It turns out to be a compilation for Ontario based Moose Records which specialized in Rock, Folk, World & Country. They put out another compilation in 1992 and that’s all I can find out about them.
Cajun Ramblers’ music sounds like it should–a cajun flare in a bouncy two-step (as the lyrics even say). There’s even a verse in French. This song seems so un-Canadian but that’s because Peter Jellard, an English musician, was busking in Paris and heard a recording of the Balfa Brothers, leading to a life long infatuation with Cajun music. After a six-week trip to Louisiana he founded the Cajun Ramblers who performed a mix of Cajun and Zydeco around Toronto. He was also in Swamperella
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This is the story of a woman returning home. She has been in Seattle visiting her daughter Wendy. It had been fun but exhausting, sightseeing everywhere. She was not looking froward to what she had to return to.
She had had a health scare. The doctor assured her that she was fine–nothing to worry about–but she was shaken. The doctor could sense that she was very upset so he invited her for a drink. And the he called her again the following week to go to an exhibition on Buddhist sculptures.
But she was a sixty year-old married woman, she couldn’t imagine going on a date. Officially, it wasn’t a date but how could it not be?
After a few more outings she told her husband that she was in love with someone else. (more…)
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