LES AMIS CREOLE have passionately absorbed and invigorated the homespun music of their ethnic heritage. In doing so, they take us back to an era before the advent of zydeco--to a time when their people first propagated a danceable folk idiom at "la-la" house parties across southwest Louisiana. Embracing the acoustic purity of that tradition, these three friends perform the old songs with uncommon dexterity and grace.
Their lives also reflect the black Creole diaspora that extends most prominently into nearby southeast Texas. Though accordionist and fiddler Ed Poullard was born in 1952 in Eunice, his family moved to Beaumont, TX when he was nine months old, and he has lived there ever since. Known for his previous collaborations with his older brother Danny, Canray Fontenot, Jessie Lege, and many others, he also build POULLARD ACCORDIONS at his home shop.
The two other members of this talented trio are Creole Texans by birth. James B. Adams, Jr., born in 1956, is a lifelong Houston resident. In addition to playing guitar, he also co-hosts a weekly KPFT-FM radio program (called Zydeco Pas Sale), through which he inadvertently discovered a prodigy who phones in requests for obscure recordings. That young man is the amazing fiddler and singer Cedric Watson. Born in 1983, Cedric was raised by his Creole grandmother near Sealy, west of Houston. Yet, as his music so eloquently attests, like Ed and James he has inherited and nurtured strong ties to ancestral homeland.
Thus, the spirit of an old-style Louisiana "la-la" permeates this recording--and not only in its repertoire, unamplified instrumentation, and authentic French lyrics. It is there also in its very setting --not in some studio but in the Lafayette house where Cedric now currently shares space with cajun musician Wilson Savoy and other colleagues from the group called Pine Leaf Boys. More to the point, as Ed relates, "We recorded this one just like my father and grandfather used to play, seated in chairs right there in the kitchen." With Joel Savoy engineering the sound, the comfortable vibe of LES AMIS CREOLE confirms again the timeless appeal of this music, the root of a rich subculture. (Bio written by Roger Wood)
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LES AMIS CREOLE, my three brothers: Cajun, zydeco or whatever you call it, your music is simply killing me. Good vocals crowned with acoustic guitar and fiddles all along the tune path. Your "The Poullard Special" creates a dancing atmosphere reminding me of our so popular rhythm called forró here all over Brazil. At the dancing ball rooms here, mostly on Saturdays evenings, whenever a forró is played all the seats are said to get bare and not even wallflower ladies have a rest. All your repertoire is fine and simplicity is the correct word to describe the awesome music your group produces. I'll be glad if you can listen to my rural songs and please send me your kind comments, as they're that fuel we artists need so that we can evaluate ourselves as professionals and most the quality in our musical wares. Please, accept a warm friendly and musical embrace from your Brazilian admirer, always,
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Hope y'all had a good trip home from Washington DC and the Folklife Festival! It was great to see you and enjoy your performances. From my seat in the tent I could see the U.S. Capital to my right and the Washington Monument to my left. It always makes me feel proud to hear Cajun and Creole bands in that setting!! I am fortunate to see this festival every year.
Cedric was playing with the Pine Leaf Boys at another festival over the weekend, so we had the pleasure of seeing Ed on fiddle and Lawrence Ardoin on accordion, with Mr. Adams on guitar. I could probably tell you the set list even though I didn't write it down!
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