DESCRIPTION:
Vin Bruce - Dans La Louisianne BCD 16895 AH


1 CD digipac with 36-page booklet
GENRE Cajun
TRACKS 20
PLAYING TIME 54:16

Long overdue set of Cajun icon Vin Bruce's very first recordings for COLUMBIA RECORDS spotlights a fascinating
time and place in the development, popularity and rise of Cajun music and its inevitable collision with
country and western at its mid-century apex.
Hank Williams was so endeared to Bruce's music that he invited him to play his public wedding ceremony at
New Orleans' Municipal Auditorium.
Produced by Don Law, Vin's COLUMBIA sides represent the first time a Cajun artist was accompanied by
Nashville's legendary session players. Among the highlights are Grady Martin multi-tasking on guitar,
mandolin and fiddle, Owen Bradley on piano, Chet Atkins and Jack Shook on guitars,
and other leading lights of the early Nashville era.
For the first time ever, these groundbreaking sides are brought together with flawless sound quality,
including four never-before-released tracks.
Highlights include the hit Dans la Louisianne, the plaintive hillbilly blues My Mama Said, songs from the
pens of Bruce, Atkins, Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and Autry Inman, and the unreleased Cajun bopper
Le délece, featuring Chet Atkins' stellar proto-rockabilly guitar picking.

INFORMATION
Often called 'The King Of Cajun Music,' Vin Bruce is a South Louisiana treasure of unparalleled significance. His signing to COLUMBIA
RECORDS in the early fifties was positively historical in more ways than one. The first Cajun artist to be marketed to the widespread
record buying public by a major record company, his first single, Dans la Louisianne b/w Fille de la ville, was sung purely
in French, but, like Harry Choates' Jole Blon before it, that didn't keep it from becoming a country music sensation. Hailing from
Bayou Lafourche, below New Orleans, Vin and his peers Leroy Martin, Gene Rodrigue and Dudley Bernard developed their own
stripe of Cajun music; an accordion-less string band style that was as much hillbilly as it was French. Vin's COLUMBIA sides brought
that sound to the jukeboxes, airwaves and the Grand Ole Opry. Hank Williams was so endeared to Bruce's music that he invited
him to play his public wedding ceremony at New Orleans' Municipal Auditorium. The authoritative booklet by Louisiana musicologist
Michael Hurtt is the most detailed history of Vin Bruce and the Bayou Lafourche sound yet to be published, bringing together
years of research, illuminating interviews and never-before-seen photographs. This set is a revelation for Cajun and
country music fans alike.

TRACK LISTING
Fille de la ville (Girl Of The Town) • Dans la Louisianne (In Louisiana) • Sweet Love • I Trusted You • Claire de la lune (Light Of
TheMoon) • Je laissez mon coer (I Left My Heart) • Are You Forgetting • Knockin' On The Door • Goodbye To A Sweetheart (Hello
To A Friend) • I'm Gonna Steal My Baby Back • My Mama Said • I'll Stay Single • La valse de St. Marie • Oh ma belle • Le délece
• Si toi tu m'aime • Over An Ocean Of Golden Dreams • I Tried • Here Is The Bottle • Too Many Girls