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Feufollet
The best zydeco or Cajun music album category seethes with generational change. On some albums, like Feufollet’s “En Couleurs” (Feufollet Records), the lyrics (to old and new songs) are in Cajun French, but the traditional fiddle and button accordion are being redeployed. The band is downright radical in the studio. While it can still huff and stamp through a two-step, it reconfigures its sound for each song: adding backup vocal harmonies, assorted electric keyboards (not to mention a toy piano), horns or pedal steel guitar, as well as some electronic effects. Elaborate or austere — Anna Laura Edmiston sings one gorgeously plaintive song unaccompanied — Feufollet’s innovations only bring out the ache and gumption of its music. 02/11/11
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