ANDRE LE BEC AND HIS ACCORDEON & ORCHESTRA - Mardi Gras

On this Fat Tuesday ,I am cooking up some seafood etouffee ,have a king cake at the ready ,and I have this curious piece of instrumental music of The French Quarter ,in New Orleans. Happy Mardi Gras! says I. Lightweight accordion-led numbers ,with a small backing band. Could not find anything about this guy on the web ,but that is about the wildest album cover I've seen in ages! This goes out to everyone partying on Bourbon Street and the surrounding areas. I was there for Mardi Gras in 2005 ,just before Hurricane Katrina all but wiped out New Orleans. The following year's (2006) Mardi Gras celebration was low-key and very sad.So many lost their homes,possessions ,even family members ,and the really tragic part is that if you go to some of the parishes,piles of debris and rubble ,left behind by Katrina , have never been cleaned up.Our government is to blame for this travesty,they should have sent cleanup crews immediately.
The french part of their culture can be heard on this recording ,as the artist & song titles are french. Well I'm getting ready to chow down on some homemade creole cooking ,so I'll leave you with this. As a side note ,I noticed that every single song on this album ,ends exactly the same! Check it out if you don't believe me!
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