Beausoleil | Meltdown review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonCajun music, says Michael Doucet of Beausoleil didn't exist before the marketing men branded it in about 1980. Long before that Beausoleil were already creating, out of Lafayette, Louisiana, what Doucet prefers to call French music, or, at a push, "swamp pop". The only two English-speaking musicians Doucet has ever had much time for, he confesses, are Bob Dylan and Richard Thompson, and it was at the request of the latter that Doucet brought his fiddle and his band ov...

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