Anyone know anything about it?

Heard one track on a CD put together by Morrisey as his influences. Its called "Saturday night special" by the Sundown Playboys.
Probably up there with Prodigy's "firestarter" and the buzzcocks "ever fallen in love with someone" as the most energetic and joyfull tracks I have ever heard.

Need to get some more so any pointers to good albums / artitsts would be cool.

Try some Creedance Clearwater Revival stuff. They've been around for a while. Alternatively, try Beausoleil which is more traditional.

If you want some posting pm me and save your pennies, I have some to give away.. please have it... keeep it!!!!!!

For Cajun Music History check this site out

http://www.imacajun.com/music.asp

An extract is below

Cajun music, like cajun cooking and cajun culture is a blend of all the multi-cultural spices that make up southern Louisiana. You cant get much closer to the heart of Acadiana than when you are listening to the tunes of its music. Times were hard in the early 1900's for the refugees exiled from nova scotia. Inspiration provoked song that hoped to elevate the pain by wailing of lost loves and bitter circumstances. In addition to the hardships these people faced, many different cultures played a role in what makes up the music of Southern Louisiana. The acadians picked up some tunes from the french creoles who brought western french folk songs to the scene. Native American Indians bellowed vocal lines which jumped progressively in steps. Black Creoles garnered a sense of rhythm and a taste for percussive techniques, inserting the blues and the improvisational lyrics. The accordian resulted all the way from Austria, brought about by german-jewish merchants. Anglo-american musicians added the fiddle. through the combination off all these diverse backgrounds the melting pot produced cajun and zydeco music.

Check out Hayseed Dixie, not really cajun but more hillbilly playing classic rock covers, there version of Ace of Spades is so cool:hihi:

Originally posted by venger
If you want some posting pm me and save your pennies, I have some to give away.. please have it... keeep it!!!!!!

What do you have venger? I'll take some off your hands.

Cheers everyone.

I actualy bought some bluegrass by mistake - but its pretty good too!

I'm obviously in an "experimental period" here.....

Have you looked at 'TexMex' stuff?

Calexico's quite good.

They did a version of Love's 'Alone again, or' which was amazing.

Bob Harris on his radio 2 saturday night show occasionally plays soem 'offbeat' stuff.

Joe

Cheers Joe. Seems odd I am getting into americana at this time doesn't it?

Try this band, they got some MP3 samples on their site

http://www.the-low-country.com/

Americana/alt country band based in the UK

John Peel liked them - RIP

Originally posted by kilauea
Cheers Joe. Seems odd I am getting into americana at this time doesn't it?

Nah....

You can't ignore cool music, wherever and whenever it comes from!

Joe

It doesn't help the fact that Radio Sheffield pulled the plug on their folk slot. Bob Hazlewood used to play loads of cajun at one time.