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Corey Ledet is shown during an all
too brief
appearance at the 2009 Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival. It was 2 p.m.,
but the skies were dark
with heavy rain clouds that opened up in a
drenching downpour after Corey performed
a couple of songs.
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2009 New CD:
A Matter of Time
Corey Ledet’s
2009 CD A Matter of Time features a nice variety of original,
traditional and cover songs performed by Corey on accordion, bass,
drums, scrubboard, triangle, and vocals in a
studio recording. Other musicians were Danny Airhart
on guitar and harmony vocals and Brad Frank on scrubboard.
Corey pumps out a hard driving
contemporary zydeco beat on original numbers
like “Zydeco Bushhog,”
“Wanna Dance,” and “Need Your Love.” He gives
us updated English versions of traditional tunes like his song “Misery”
(inspired by “Choupique Two-Step”), transforms
“Colinda” into pure zydeco
on the triple-row accordion, channels Clifton Chenier
into original French numbers like “Moi femme c’est fou” (pour moi), and goes back to his Creole roots with an
old-style foot-tapping accordion solo as a tribute to Edward Poullard. “Corey’s Waltz” is a beautiful
accordion-triangle version of “Grand Mamou,”
followed on the CD by an accordion-triangle instrumental titled “That
Song.” There’s even a Christmas song, “C’est
temps Noel.”
Covers include Geno Delafose’s “Don’t You
Leave Me,” John Delafose’s “Hold That Tiger,”
and “Promise Me One Thing” from the Slippery Sneakers Zydeco Band based in Rhode Island.”
Those covers are all well done,
but the biggest surprise is Corey’s fired up zydeco interpretation of
Elvis Presley’s “Burning Love.”
A Matter of Time is a remarkable achievement by a young man
who has both the talent and the heart to celebrate zydeco
in all of its varieties.
For more
information on Corey Ledet, check out his MySpace
page.
Click here to
go to LSUE's first page on Corey Ledet.
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