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Welcome to Jimmy Breaux Music .com!
This is the official Web site of Cajun and zydeco accordionist, bandleader and BeauSoleil member Jimmy Breaux. We've got his latest record below in two formats and lots of other good stuff in our STORE and the other sections of our site. |
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| Jimmy Breaux & Friends: Live at Festivals Acadiens is a tour-de-force set of dancehall-style Cajun music featuring the BeauSoleil accordionist, Jamey Bearb, Roddie Romero, Jeff Romero, Bryan Bourque and special guests Michael and David Doucet! |
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From the liner notes to Jimmy Breaux & Friends: Live at Festivals Acadiens:
Jimmy Breaux’s Cajun music roots run deep, and this album is a tour-de-force celebration of his amazing heritage. The gifted players here are of course friends, and part of the extended family that drives south Louisiana’s exuberant Cajun and Creole cultures. They believe a great riff doesn’t matter much unless it’s tied to a solid rhythm, and that music and dancing are inseparable.
This performance opened the Heritage Stage with a roar at 11:15 a.m. on a Sunday in 2006. Jimmy leads the band on accordion, and Jamey Bearb’s honey-sweet vocals and fiddling are spiced with Roddie Romero’s steel-inflected electric guitar licks, while Bryan Bourque’s adventurous bass runs lock in with Roddie’s older brother Jeff Romero’s rock solid backbeat. The band covers lots of dancehall turf and veers into acoustic territory when BeauSoleil’s Doucet brothers join the joyride.
This album was created with the support of even more friends and family. Jimmy’s music reaches back at least as far as his great-grandfather Auguste Breaux, his pioneering great-aunt Cléoma Breaux Falcon (who sang and played on the very first Cajun recording, “Allons à Lafayette”), and his trailblazing grandfather Amédée Breaux, who was the first to record “Jolie Blonde” and did so with Cléoma and Jimmy’s great-uncles. Jimmy’s father Preston and mother Rita passed the family’s music on to Jimmy and his siblings Gary, Carolyn and Pat. Jimmy’s stepdad U.J. Meaux was another great inspiration, a role now filled by Jimmy’s daughters Megan and Torie.
With Jimmy, the future of Cajun music is in great hands.
Jimmy Breaux & Friends: Live at Festivals Acadiens track listing:
1. “Allons à Lafayette”
2. “Mermentau Waltz”
3. “Papa George Special”
4. “Je suis pas un couillon (I’m Not a Fool Anymore)”
5. “Lonely Girl Waltz”
6. “Scott Playboys Special”
7. “Elle savait pas j’étais marié (She Didn’t Know I Was Married)”
8. “Equand j’étais pauvre (When I Was Poor)”
9. “Accordion Two-Step”
10. “Evangeline Special”
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