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La Pointe | 
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| Artist: Balfa Toujours
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $11.73
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 141850
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 011661608627
EAN: 0011661608627
ASIN: B00000AFD5
Release Date: September 15, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Kingpin Special - Balfa Toujours, Powell, Dirk | | • | Restez, Mom et Pop, Restez - Balfa Toujours, Powell, Dirk | | • | Freight Train Blues - Balfa Toujours, Clark, Octa | | • | Pa Janvier - Balfa Toujours, Traditional | | • | Marshall's Club - Balfa Toujours, Powell, Dirk | | • | Les Tacas de Todd Balfa - Balfa Toujours, Powell, Dirk | | • | Nonc Charlot - Balfa Toujours, Traditional | | • | The Freeman Fontenot Medley - Balfa Toujours, Traditional | | • | Bayou Teche Special - Balfa Toujours, Traditional | | • | Bernadette - Balfa Toujours, Traditional | | • | La Valse de Bayou Lafourche - Balfa Toujours, Traditional | | • | Blacktop Blues - Balfa Toujours, Clark, Octa | | • | Le Reel de Courville - Balfa Toujours, Traditional | | • | Un Ange Pour Tout de la Louisiane - Balfa Toujours, Powell, Dirk |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Balfa Toujours is from the new generation of Cajun music, free to go back home now that the fusions have been tried and the stars have been named. This recording was made in Christine Balfa and Dirk Powell's hometown, literally in the living room and kitchen of their home in La Pointe, Louisiana. Powell delivers some gritty train- imitating accordion on "Freight Train Blues." Balfa serves up a wonderful original ballad (cowritten with Powell), "Restez, Mom and Pop, Restez" that could have been written a hundred years ago, about anyone leaving the family to work and survive. All of the songs show a relaxed, personable trio of musicians, joined by a few friends for a good time first and a record second. Not that this recording suffers from chatter and mistakes. This is ace playing of new songs and old favorites, dance tunes and song ballads that speak from the heart of Cajun culture, played in an appropriately lean style. --Louis Gibson
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| Customer Reviews:
Cajun music comes to life. December 9, 2007
Edward Kohl (Baltimore, MD USA)
I was looking for "Christine Balfa" music and came across this CD. It flows form lively track to lively track as it pulls you into the music. As far as Cajun Music goes this CD is on the top of the list. This is one disk you don't want to miss.
Must have CD March 7, 2007
Dixie Diamond (Texas)
Absolutely beautiful instrumentation without being stuffy, great singing, nice arrangements. Excellent recording.
A Must Buy Cajun CD March 23, 2006
Bluegrass (Northeast Tennessee)
I thought their Live at Whiskey River Landing was excellent but this one is even better. I will now have to purchase Deux Voyages! My only complaint with the CD is that the listing of songs on the back of the CD is so small and in orange color that my bifocals even struggle to make out the names. If you enjoy good Cajun music this is a must buy CD for you. Even if you are not a real fan of Cajun music, I guarantee you this CD will win you over! The Balfa name continues on in Cajun music in grand fashion!
My favorite Cajun CD December 2, 2005
zydeholic (Albany, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This cd is just so good, its hard to describe why. Whatever they did, they got it right.
Kevin Wimmer just rocks with his deep throaty fiddling, and Dirk Powell's accordion work is the top of the game. These guys are pro's, and Christine's singing is Authentic, with a capital A.
Two tracks that stand out for me are "Pa Janvier" and "Bernadette", primarily because of Kevin's fiddling.
This version of "Bernadette" made me learn the lyrics and start playing it on the accordion. I'm years away from being able to do it on the fiddle.
This is the CD I usually recommend when someone asks me about a good Cajun CD. Cajun music, of itself, can be an acquired taste for some folks, a taste that can take years to develop if you're not also dancing to this infectious music. However, this CD I can recommend with little fear of the person having a less than positive initial take on the music.
A Blue Heron in Flight February 6, 2000
Robert Bruzgo
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Our lives pass quickly, and many voices call to us along the way. Some voices speak to us directly. Balfa Toujours is that kind of sound. You can feel it in the reassuring movement of the bellows of an accordion and the confident bow of a fiddle as it pulls and stretches vibrating strings. You can hear it clearly in the heart stopping vocals of Christine Balfa as she breaks the surface of this ancient music of the Bayou Teche with a call-- to you. Balfa Toujours is as arresting as the flight of a Blue Heron-- never what I would call beautiful, but so captivating it can cause a gathering in your chest. They say La Pointe is a place in Louisiana, but just try to find it on a map! Balfa Toujours recorded the CD there in Christine Balfa's living room and kitchen on "vintage analog equipment." We are never told who owns the unassuming home shown in the cover photo. It does call to mind steaming hot summer days, and nights lying awake with a fan blowing humid air in from the bayou; the sudden crash of thunder, wind blowing hard and pecans falling on a tin roof. Consider the second track, Restez, Mom et Pop, Restez (Stay, Mom and Dad, Stay). Inspired by a story about Christine Balfa's cousin, Warner, as he prepared to leave for his seven day stint on an offshore oil rig. His children came to him and pleaded, "Don't go daddy; we don't care about the money. Please just stay with us." Somehow, that Cajun aptitude for seeing universal truth in the everyday and making light of it turns this tragedy into a waltz while the lyrics cry out without pretense or poetry. We thought the world would be simpler.
The more I think about it, the more complicated it appears.
It seems that everyone is searching for happiness;
They've forgotten it is not something you can buy.
Balfa Toujours, La Pointe, is one kind of happiness that money can buy. It is captivating, visceral and meaningful throughout. When the last track is over, there is a noticeable absence of something in your life and yet something that remains.
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