Petit Cadeau

Bruce Daigrepont | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 3, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder
• ASIN: B0000003DI
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #379,564 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Daigrepont's best album., June 22, 2000

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Just Another Linguist (Indianapolis, Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Petit Cadeau (Audio CD)

I'm a big fan of Daigrepont, but not always a fan of his albums, which are pretty uneven. When I want to hear him play this is what I put on.

A lot of Cajun music is wedded to tradition, but Daigrepont feels free to experiment. "Bebe de la Famille," for example, has a Caribbean touch. "Bonjour, Dimanche," about a farmowner who's been up all night throwing a party and is listening to the countryside wake up at dawn, is the trickiest song here, simultaneously evoking the narrator's bleary state and the farmyard's early-morning bustle. Daigrepont is expanding the tradition, though, not leaving it behind. There's still bouncy party music like "Tipitina Two-Step," a slow one about his uncle's store where you could speak Cajun French and gamble, and covers of songs by Canray Fontenot and Wade Fruge.

All of Daigrepont's albums have good songs, but this one's something special. The worst you can say about anything here is that it's merely good.