Two Step de l'Anse ? Paille - The Balfa Brothers, Balfa, Dewey
La Danse de Mardi Gras - The Balfa Brothers, Balfa Brothers
Je Me Suis Marilli?
Enterre-Moi Pas
Ch?re Joues Roses
Ch?re Bassette
J'Ai Pass? Devant Ta Porte
Les Flammes d'Enfer - The Balfa Brothers, Pitre, Austin
Madeleine - The Balfa Brothers, Hebert, Adam
La Valse du Bambocheur
Lacassine Special - The Balfa Brothers, Traditional
My True Love
La Valse de Grand Bois - The Balfa Brothers, Traditional
Family Waltz
Newport Waltz
Indian on a Stomp - The Balfa Brothers, Balfa, Dewey
T'Es Petite et T'Es Mignonne
Two Step a Hadley - The Balfa Brothers, Balfas
Valse de Balfa
Parlez-Nous ? Boire
Les Blues du Cadien
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Media Type: CD
Artist: BALFA BROTHERS
Title: VOL. 1-2-PLAYS TRADITIONAL C
Street Release Date: 01/24/1991
No Description Available
No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: BALFA BROTHERS
Title: VOL. 1-2-PLAYS TRADITIONAL C
Street Release Date: 01/24/1991
CD Reviews
One of the Most Important Albums In Cajun Music
K. Fontenot | The Bayou State | 01/31/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Leave your Wayne Toups discs at the door. If he is what you call Cajun music, you've got it all wrong. Being Cajun, I don't like it when people get artists like Toups confused with real, traditional Cajun music. I'm not bashing Toups. As a matter of fact, I quite enjoy his music. But most people outside of Louisiana think he's the real thing. The Balfa Brothers are REAL Cajun music. They play traditional and cherished songs of the Cajun people of Louisiana. Their recordings are crucial since most of the artists before them never made it into a recording studio. If you are Cajun, or have ties back to Louisiana, I highly suggest you get this recording if, for no other reason, to have a piece of your culture in your possession.
Go out and enjoy Wayne Toups and some of the new, peppier stuff that mixes zydeco and Cajun, but always remember that the Balfa's laid the ground work."
The Rosetta Stone of Cajun Music
M J Miller | Park City, UT, USA | 02/25/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"No band is more important to Cajun Music than the Balfas, and this is their most essential recording. The brothers had been playing for years before they recorded this debut album, a testiment to how unpopular cajun music was to the record industry until these guys started turning heads at folk music festivals in the sixties. Dewey Balfa is THE greatest Cajun violinist AND vocalist, and all of these tracks are cajun standards that schooled every cajun band that followed."
Essential!
Megan Romer | Ithaca, NY | 11/26/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"No fan or student of Cajun music or folk/traditional music in general should be without this essential album. Every song here is a classic in the Cajun repertoire, and is presented in true Balfa Brothers form: outstanding! The liner notes include all the song lyrics in Cajun French and English. If you don't own this album, you really have no excuse. Buy it now!"
A beautiful introduction to traditional Cajun music
Larry J. Coben | Fort Worth, Texas United States | 08/20/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The Balfa Brothers were to traditional Cajun music what the New Lost City Ramblers were to Old Time Country Music, a modern door into a world gone by. With a deep feeling for the traditions the music represents and with superb musicianship, they perform songs many of which predate recorded musical history. The notes in this CD provide a good, but brief, history of the group and all the words in both French and English translation. Hopefully, this easily accessable and very enjoyable collection will encourage some to seek out the first recordings made of this unique and wonderful music in the 20's, 30's, and 40's."
Always in my traveling case
johnny hawkins | SAN ANTONIO | 02/13/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"this is cajun music not zydeco, don't understand a word but damn its goo"
Track Listings (24) - Disc #1