Track Listing

1. Everybody's Havin' Fun
2. When Will I Be Loved?
3. Baby, Baby, Baby
4. Grand Bois Waltz
5. There's No Getting Over Me
6. Chickens on the Run
7. Bee de La Manche
8. Tout l'Jour et Tout l'Soir
9. Gave You My Love
10. Easy
11. Back Door [LA Porte en Arriere]
12. Promised Land
13. Domino
14. Someone Told Me It Was All Over
15. Somebody Show Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #156939 in Music
• Released on: 2007-08-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Amazon.com
Veteran zydeco (a musician of Creole-African-American-Francophone heritage) star Delafose, who began playing with his father's band at age seven, really is a cowboy--with a working ranch in Eunice, Louisiana, where he gets his hands dirty raising horses and livestock. He is also an accordionist of unusually fierce rhythmic power, with a soulful, keening voice that cuts to the quick of every song he sings. His personal synthesis of French and African-based influences, highly syncopated and incorporating deep internal rumbles of R&B and raucous rock guitars, is at once mellow, earthy, sassy, and compulsively danceable--it's a totally masculine groove, even in moments of tenderness and introspection. The present album offers wide-ranging series of tracks, chugging, shimmying classics and self-penned compositions that are redolent of spicy cuisines, sticky, too-close dancing, and humid, beer-soaked nights that don't always end with sunrise. The set list also includes sweetly harmonized interpretations of Chuck Berry's "Promised Land," Lionel Richie's "Easy," Van Morrison's "Domino," and Phil Everly's "When Will I Be Loved." Inevitably, some of these are more successful than others; the latter two get with the program big-time while the others sound perhaps a trifle wan and anemic but not exactly out-of-place. -Christina Roden

Customer Reviews

can't sit still!
This CD hasn't left my boom box since I got it. How can you resist the super-charged version of "Promised Land" or the surprising adaptation of "Domino?" Who would have thought "I'm Easy" could end up on a zydeco album? I hope to see more country covers in the next one.
In a world of monotonous zydeco sounds, this CD stands out as a creative, wide-reaching, and thoroughly fun oasis.

Geno is the best
After many years of attending the Beaux Bridge Crawfish festival, I have determined that Geno Delafose is the best accordian player in Cajin country. This CD is good but has too many cover tunes. The cover tunes are good, but I like original material.