Mission:
To foster enjoyment, appreciation, and understanding of the history
of Cajun music!
If you can find recordings by
the artists featured here, by all means please get them!
These recordings all come from
my private collection with considerable help from other French music fans. I
post them here as a labor of love without gain and with no wish to cut into
any else's profit. I simply make these important and scarce recordings available
here due to their inherent interest to the Cajun music community, to preserve
and promote appreciation for Nathan Abshire, Austin Pitre, Ambrose Thibodeaux,
Revon Reed, Sady Courville, Preston Manuel, Roy Fusilier, et al. They are the
roots and influences of our contemporary Cajun music...I hope a new generation
will pick up and expand on our great tradition by hearing these great recordings.
Every girl and boy ought to have a chance to hear them. To the artists and families
who have given me permission to post these songs here so that they can be heard
widely, thank you!
Contact me, Neal Pomea (Pommier),
at npomea@earthlink.net if
by chance you hold copyright and do not wish to see these works made
available in this format. Further our music by making recordings like
these available worldwide. Bonne chance a tout!
The Yahoo group Cajun Music Recordings has put together a discography of 45s on the Swallow label.
Friends:
Fans of the really old time recordings of the 20s and 30s should check
out Joe Bussard's Vintage 78.
He records custom tapes of songs from his stash of 25,000+ 78s, one of the largest
private collections of old time music in the world! Even the Library of Congress
wants his stuff! When folks issue cds of old time music, Joe is often the source
of the 78. See his Custom
Made Cassettes site for further details. Cajun music is in the Old Time
Country catalog, pp. 65-70. Tell him you heard about it here! This site will
for the most part not feature those available recordings.
If you have an interest in the Cajun music of the 40s-60s, you should contact Lyle Ferbrache at lyleferb@yahoo.com. For the cost of production and shipping, he can send you CD burns from his terrific collection of hard to find recordings from those much overlooked years. Bingo! Domino!
I think the two premier
Web sites with information and photos on contemporary Cajun musicians
are the LSU-Eunice
Acadiana Gateway and the Cajun
and Zydeco Radio Guide. Magnifique! Un beaucoup bon job, boys!
Established
May 26, 2002
Last updated April 5, 2008
Neal Pomea (Pommier)
npomea@earthlink.net
610 Eldrid Drive
Silver Spring, Maryland
20904
Telephone: 301-680-3168
Let's play some music!
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