Search - Pine Leaf Boys :: Homage Au Passe

Grammy(r) nominated 2008 - Best Cajun Album

Homage Au Passé, the Pine Leaf Boys third album, is the five-man group s first release on Lionsgate. These youthful southwest-Louisianans celebrate their Cajun heritage with a rollicking and often rowdy collection of soulful original songs and traditional classics. Like all Cajun bands, the Pine Leaf Boys play music that s intended primarily for dancing just try to sit still when you hear them. But as the title Homage Au Passé (Homage to the Past) indicates, this infectiously fun and passionate band is also on a serious mission of cultural preservation.

The Pine Leaf Boys are the real deal sincere cultural crusaders who love their land and who live its venerable music with genuine gusto. There s no studied revivalism here on their Lionsgate debut, Homage au Passé; au contraire, this album stomps, sweats, loves and loses, and raises no small amount of hell in the process. In an age of rampant homogenization, when vital regional cultures are eroding just like Louisiana s endangered wetlands, Homage au Passé proves that the steamroller of bland conformity will never flatten all in its path.