ALBUM REVIEWS - Bayou Perdu

Lafayette, LA Arsenio Orteza, January 2006 Lost Bayou Ramblers: Bayou Perdu (Swallow) Garage-rockers, eat your hearts out: This album of 14 Cajun songs (some old, some new, some borrowed, some blues) has the loudest, dirtiest drum sound I've heard all year. Better yet, instead of overwhelming the surrounding rough-hewn francophone racket, the big bam boom focuses it and gives it that rarest of qualities where contemporary Cajun CDs are concerned -- an identity. Rating: Four well-rattled woofers out of five.

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