The Balfa Brothers Parlez Nous A Boire

Track: ParlezNous à Boire Artist: The Balfa Brothers Album: The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music: Vols. 1 2 Label: Swallow Records This is a studio version of the wonderful track featured in the movie Southern Comfort. Unfortunately, as best I know, the complete movie soundtrack was never released, so if you want to hear it in all its glory you ll have to buy the DVD. It s a good movie and the soundtrack, produced by Ry Cooder, is excellent. Here s Dewey Balfa describing his 1964 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, the first time Cajun music had featured there I had played in house dances, family gatherings, maybe a dance hall where you might have seen as many as two hundred people at once. In fact, I doubt I had ever seen two hundred people at once. And in Newport, there were seventeen thousand. Seventeen thousand people who wouldn t let us get off