"Louisiana Folk Masters: Varise Conner" CD track listing
36 songs, three stories, total time 72 minutes
Varise Conner (1906-1994) has been called the “greatest unrecorded Cajun musician.” With this ground-breaking 72-minute collection of previously unavailable songs and stories featuring liner notes by Michael Doucet, David Greely, Carl Brasseaux and Barry Jean Ancelet, we now have an opportunity to hear masterful renditions of waltzes, two-steps, blues, a mazurka, a polka and even “Lake Arthur Stomp” as performed by its originator in his own home. The source recordings for this project were made between 1975 and 1977 and are part of the Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Recorded by Barry Jean Ancelet
Edited and Mastered by Tony Daigle
Associate Producers: Barry Jean Ancelet and David Greely
Photos by Elemore Morgan, Jr.
Art Direction: Megan Barra
Executive Producers: John Laudun and Todd Mouton
1. Valse à Milton (2:10)
2. Polka à Varise (1:46)
3. Drunkard's Waltz (1:15)
4. Kentucky (1:31)
5. La Caroline (:53)
6. Lake Arthur Shuffle (1:07)
7. Jimmy Bryant's Waltz (1:33)
8. Aguillard Two-Step (:50)
9. Andy's Waltz (1:07)
10. L'Histoire du violon de Varise (2:20)
11. St. Louis Blues (1:46)
12. You've Got to See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama at All) (1:34)
13. Creole Waltz (1:10)
14. Chère Bouclette (2:19)
15. La Mazurka d'Eugene Michon (:56)
16. Rêve du Diable (1:23)
17. Hobson (1:30)
18. Down South (2:59)
19. Lake Arthur Stomp (2:06)
20. Sawmill Two-Step (1:57)
21. Lake Arthur Two-Step (1:44)
22. Valse à Abe (1:32)
23. Valse à Elise Mallet (1:19)
24. La Malheureuse (1:57)
25. Sabine Blues (2:22)
26. Perrodin Two-Step (1:23)
27. Old Cajun Waltz (2:22)
28. Rabbit Stole the Pumpkin (2:53)
29. Bascom Mouton Remembered (2:11)
30. J'ai été au bal (1:19)
31. Grand Mamou (2:04)
32. Grand Basile (1:33)
33. Chère Bassette (1:35)
34. Goodnight Waltz (2:25)
35. Sawmill Rag (1:02)
36. Varise Conner Rag (1:12)
37. Memphis Blues (1:37)
38. Chacoter (1:13)
39. Varise Remembers (8:13) |
