Cajun Pride (CD)

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• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: April 8, 1997
• Label: Rounder Records
• UPC: 011661606920
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106616644
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #34947 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #35 in Cajun (See Top 100 Cajun Bestsellers)
• #20 in General/Cajun (See Top 100 General/Cajun Bestsellers)

Personnel: Jo-El Sonnier (vocals, guitar, French accordion); David Doucet (guitar); "Junior" Martin (steel guitar); Michael Doucet, Tony Thibodeaux (fiddle); David Egan (piano, background vocals); Peter Schwarz (bass); Danny Zeringue (drums).

Recorded at Dockside Studio, Maurice, Louisiana in October, 1995. Includes liner notes by Jim Bessman.

CAJUN PRIDE was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

The roots-Cajun accordion virtuoso returns with an album that's particularly exquisite, even by his own high standards. Don't take the title too literally, however; several of the songs here--especially the '70s-penned "Juste an Affaire"--also reflect Sonnier's tenure as a mainstream country star (ditto the haunting pedal steel guitar that decorates "Midnight Waltz"). Sonnier's Cajun side is hardly stinted, of course, and the rootsiest numbers here--the sort of Cajun-minimalist "Lake Arthur Special" and the fiddle-driven "Pine Grove Blues" (made famous by the legendary Nathan Abshire) are among the album's best. Sonnier even finds a way to breathe life into Chuck Berry's too-often-covered "Johnny B. Goode," here rendered charmingly in French as "Johnny Fais Bien."

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