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Wade Frugé“Old Time Cajun Music”CASS 5044 |
SORRY! This cassette is out of stock, and out of print. It is no longer available on Cassette.
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Wade Frugé - fiddle (& vocal on "La Valse à Wade Frugé"), Vorance Barzas - vocals; Ann Savoy - guitar & vocal; Marc Savoy - accordion; Tina Pilione - bass (& fiddle on "Grandfather's Tune.")
Rereleased as CD 476 with bonus tracks.
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Track Listing La Valse de Choupique 'Tit Mamou La Vieille Chanson de Mardi Gras Port Arthur Blues La Valse de Bayou Teche You Used to Have Some La Valse Criminel Grandfather's Tune La Valse à Wade Frugé Evangeline Playboy Special The Crowley Waltz Galope The Little Calf is Dead Wade's Blues Catch My Hat |
REVIEW “For those recently introduced to zydeco music, this is a good sample of its early Louisiana roots. Fruge is a 73-year old Louisiana fiddle player with a large fund of old fiddle tunes, folk songs and country blues in his repertoire. This, his first record, is a varied selection of beautiful, edgy melodies that sound like a raw untamed cousin of bluegrass. Backed by accordion, guitar, and bass, Fruge does his scratchy but attractive playing on waltzes, two-steps, and the occasionally pretty folk melody like `La Vielle Chanson de Mardi Gras.' As sweet as this music is, the thunder is almost stolen by vocalist Vorace Barzas, who sings in a commanding Cajun French high tenor. This is beautiful, unaffected folk music, in its own way more attractive than the modern rocked-up zydeco sound.”(Jerome Wilson — Option) |
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“Wade Fruge is described by Michael Doucet as `the original stylist himself,' and it's not hard to see his stamp on the latter's playing. With various permutations of Marc and Ann Savoy and Tina Pilone of the Savoy-Doucet band in tasteful attendance, Wade is given plenty of scope to express himself. His style is full of the usual Cajun double-stopping, but when he moves up to the higher registers the fiddle really begins to sing, with graceful slides and vibrato, as well as a distinctive trick of playing the melody in octaves. There's the odd lapse in intonationperhaps understandable in a man of 74but this is only really intrusive during `La Valse A Wade Fruge,' and the beautiful playing on `La Vielle Chanson De Mardi Gras' more than makes up for it. The Fruge repertoire is mostly new to me, and contains some cooking tunes, including a marvellous blues he picked up from a black fiddler. As an added bonus, there's the presence on six of the fifteen tracks of vocalist and drummer Vorance Barzas, who sings high and clear in the authentic Cajun way.”
(Brian Peters — Folk Roots) |
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