Thirty Days of Song - Day Five
Apr. 26th, 2020 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elrhiarhodanDay Five - A song that needs to be played loud
La Bottine Souriante - La Ziguezon (Chic & Swell)
I have had an enduring love of folk music since my high school years - it seemed to come organically from my independent explorations (as opposed to sitting and listening with Eldest Sister) of certain British rock acts (Jethro Tull, cough, cough). Over the years, I went from English folk (Fairport Convention) to Irish (Clannad) to Scots (Capercallie). I used to haunt used record stores and cut-out bins (where I discovered The Levellers and Christy Moore and Finnish Joik music). Once upon a time, there was a store on Long Island that was all cut-out and every CD was $2.00, and that's where I found a copy La Bottine Souritante's album Chic & Swell. LBS is a Quebecois folk group with an utterly infectious rhythm. I don't speak French and I don't understand the lyrics on any of their songs and frankly, I don't want to. But I have spent many happy hours in my car with the windows down and playing this song, which actually might be about polishing boots...
La Bottine Souriante - La Ziguezon (Chic & Swell)
I have had an enduring love of folk music since my high school years - it seemed to come organically from my independent explorations (as opposed to sitting and listening with Eldest Sister) of certain British rock acts (Jethro Tull, cough, cough). Over the years, I went from English folk (Fairport Convention) to Irish (Clannad) to Scots (Capercallie). I used to haunt used record stores and cut-out bins (where I discovered The Levellers and Christy Moore and Finnish Joik music). Once upon a time, there was a store on Long Island that was all cut-out and every CD was $2.00, and that's where I found a copy La Bottine Souritante's album Chic & Swell. LBS is a Quebecois folk group with an utterly infectious rhythm. I don't speak French and I don't understand the lyrics on any of their songs and frankly, I don't want to. But I have spent many happy hours in my car with the windows down and playing this song, which actually might be about polishing boots...
