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| | Beausoleil : L' Amour Ou La Folie - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | From the first track of L'Amour ou la Folie to the last, Michael Doucet and company cover a wide array of material, from original compositions to adaptations of popular songs from the 1930s. |
 | | There are some oddities here, like the I-think-this-works-but-I'm-not-sure "Can't You See" (a "swamp pop" song from the 1950s that answers the question, "What would Fats Domino sound like if he lived on the bayou?"), but the majority of the tracks on this record are traditional tunes or fairly straight-ahead Doucet originals. |
 | | However, at its worst, it borders on the offensive, as on "Les Blues de la Prison." Even on the stronger tracks, Doucet has some pitch problems, which, although charming, colorful, and completely idiomatic, really begin to grate in large doses (his howling on the traditional "Eunice Two-Step" simply must be heard to be believed). |
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