Well, I didn't know it was going to become a referendum on versions of "Jambalaya."
Of course it's hard to beat the original. Spare, foursquare fonky, and to thee point.
I won't say anything bad about Emmylou, but despite all the individual talent on display, the stage full of hot pickers walking all over each other, harmonizing like the Mo-Ron Tabernacle Kwahr, and smearing the groove with all the forethought of a slow-mo buffalo stampede is everything I don't like much about Big Country jamalams. To hell with the SAWNG, we got us a BONCH a people up heah, and we gawn BOOogy.
Not anyone's best moments there, though some nice steel and Burtontele.
Always on the lookout for the soooblimne and the ridicaless, I submit...
Brenda Lee ... and Deano, SMOKin!
And what's a nice 2-chord cawntry sawng without brass, strings, and a conductor?
Lest we think Brenda can't get real, how about
puttin' the real juice back in the jar-o?
Reckon she was GOOD & TARD of it by 1965.
I understand John Fogerty never even SAW a bayou till sometime in the 80s. Still, at least it sounds pretty honest.
Shucks, ah'm speechkless.
If I was a carpenter, I'm not sure I woulda done that.
Sumbit! Sumone dun covered it!
OK, so, "cajun" comes from "Acadian," the French Canadians who were displaced down to Loozyana yea these long many years ago, and I know Hank put some actual French words in the song, but does that mean we need to hear it COMPLETELY IN FRENCH??
Whaddaya call 4 guitars, 3 fiddles, a doghouse, a mandolino, AND a flute! JAMBALAYA!
What, you WANTED MORE FIDDLES??
FINALLY, BANjo! And it took a bunch of Swiss fellers and gals at The Sheepfarm. You couldn't make this stuff up. AND, the best Jambatele solo so far...
And over there in Italy, THEY'RE havin' big fun too.
Accordian, washboard, and a wobbly voice, it's Ponty Bone!
No caption could possibly capture this. Yer a wimp if you don't click.
Music ... is the universal ... lan ... guage?
I'm not sure what Jo Stafford is doing to the groove, and she's taken them har-mo-nees right uptown. Durn if I don't like it!
Andy Kauffman and The Pencil-Neck Geeks on Letterman.
Alan Jackson wondering what the HAIL he's doing with a guy wearing shorts and pumping an accordian. In Germany, of course.
Finally, a dobro and a good whackin' snare. In this case, the French guy sings in Anglais.
Alabama Boots stompin' out the VFW rock & roll version.
Line-dancin'. Not in 'murrica. Yeee-AH!
Nice little French kids have to learn American line dancing SOMEwhere, right? I mean, otherwise they'd just have that ballet stuff?
DO NOT take yer hans outta yer dyang pockets when yer dancin' Jombalaya, OK??
Has Elvis left the building yet?
Bring it home, Jerry.
Ha ha! You thought I was DONE? Not till we hear strings, synth brass, flute... oh, etc. Somewhere in Asia.
Walter's Dutch, right? Can he explain this? Actually, mighty tasty pickin' and slidin'...
Turns out that in 1971 Bruce the Springsteen had long hair and played a very crunchy Les Paul in a very sloppy band. Sounds like Clarence might be with him. Anyway, they had a song called, you guessed it, Jambalaya. But it's not Hank's. It DOES, however, have three chords instead of two, which means they can play it for eight minutes! The plot: he has a girl in New Orleans. "Jambalaya, she's on fi-ah." Look, don't say I didn't warn yer.
You thought you'd get away without hearing it in HISPANIC?
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Real cajuns apparently call EVERY song "Jambalaya."
Jambalaya #1
Jambalaya #2
Jambalaya #3
Finally, a warshtub bass.
I REALLY like the fiddler. EVERYthing about the fiddler. Not sure I understand the guitarist's approach...
The Babar Jug Band. You won't believe it, but the name is the best part of the band.
What? We haven't had a transvestite lip-syncher yet? Quel oversight! Meet Candy.
The flute's back. Along with the drum machine. Are we in Poland?
Hey! Jane's cute!
Surely, you wanted to hear Harry Connick and the big band version?
I KNEW it.
I think this is my best post EVER.
