Track Listing

1. Bon Temps Rouler - Beausoleil
2. I Never Fool Nobody But Me - Irma Thomas
3. Look-Ka Py Py - The Meters
4. Your Mama Don't Know - Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas, Zydeco Cha-Chas
5. If You're a Viper [#] - Rebirth Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins
6. Flammes D'Enfer (The Flames of Hell) - Eddie LeJeune, D.L. Menard,
7. Big Chief, Pt. 1 - Professor Longhair
8. Mojo Hannah - Aaron Neville
9. J'Aurais du T'Aimer (I Should Have Loved You) - Cajun Country, Jimmy C. Newman
10. Carnival Time - Bo Dollis, The Wild Magnolias
11. Imitation of Love - Johnny Adams
12. Opelousas Sostan - Mamou
13. Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On - Chuck Carbo
14. Hot Tamale Baby - Buckwheat Zydeco
15. Mardi Gras in New Orleans - The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
16. So Swell When You're Well - James Booker
17. Street Talk - Dr. John, Bo Dollis, , Willie Tee
18. Blues du Saoulard (Drunkard's Blues) - Mamou Playboys, Steve Riley
19. Watch That Dog - John Delafose, The Eunice Playboys

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108386 in Music
• Released on: 1993-05-06
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Let The Good Times Roll
This 1993 release comes from Rounder Records, the brainchild of university students Marian Leighton-Levy, Ken Irwin and Bill Nowlin who, in 1970, decided to launch a label operating out of Cambridge, Massachusetts (currently based in Burlington), with special attention paid to "roots" music. Once established, they created the specialty subsidiaries Zoe, Heartbeat, Bullseye Blues, Flying Fish and Philo, each dealing with specific genres like Folk. Eventually, Rounder became one of the largest independent record labels in the U.S. and, for a while, also served as the major distributor/central sales coordinator for upwards of 400 other indie labels, before cutting back in the mid-1990s.

Here, they pull together 19 happy Louisiana tunes by some of the best-known New Orleans artists this side of Fats Domino, with Beausoleil kicking it off with Bon Temps Rouler [Let The Good Times Roll]. Brothers Michael (fiddle and vocals) and David Doucet (guitar and vocals), percussionists Tommy Ales, Billy Ware, and Tommy Alesi, accordionist Jimmy Breaux, and bassist/fiddler Mitchell Reed, operating out of Lafayette, is one of the most popular such bands in the region.

You also get a re-recording by the New Orleans group The Meters of one of their best R&B hits, Look-A Py Py, which became a # 11 in 1970 on the Josie label, the magnificent Soul Queen Of New Orleans Irma Thomas, born in Ponchatoula, doing the Doc Pomus tune, I Never Fool Nobody But Me, while the great Aaron Neville, also from New Orleans, checks in with Mojo Hannah. And on and on, delivering some of the happiest, toe-tapping music you will ever hear on one disc.

You won't want to miss the bouncy Les flammes d'enfer (The Flames Of Hell) by Eddie LeJeune, D.L. Menard And Ken Smith, and the slow, melancholy J'aurais di t'aimer (I Should Have Loved You) by Jimmie C. Newman & Cajun Country, both done in the inimitable Cajun French dialect brought to Louisiana from Acadia (now New Brunswick/Nova Scotia in Canada
(our loss thanks to the British).

There are no liner notes, but there is a complete contents discography showing the original Rounder label numbers and, where applicable, the album title concerned. The sound quality is excellent.