Dagger Gordon
May-02-2005, 10:16am
Been listening a lot to this 1990 album lately. Forgotten how good it was, and how much mandolin Michel Bordeleau played on it.
I like their brass stuff, but this was made before that. Pianist Denis Frechette plays some trumpet - I guess that was the start of the brass.
Latterly, Michel hardly played mandolin at all - all fiddle, guitar, drums, feet and singing, and when I saw them in Scotland in summer 2003, only the bass player Regent Archibauld was still there from the 1990 line-up, which was a really great group.
What are some of these guys doing now? I gather Andre has a studio (recorded Tony McManus' 'Pourquoi Quebec', I think); what about Michel Bordeleau? I thought the way he worked the mandolin into that line-up was excellent.
I like their brass stuff, but this was made before that. Pianist Denis Frechette plays some trumpet - I guess that was the start of the brass.
Latterly, Michel hardly played mandolin at all - all fiddle, guitar, drums, feet and singing, and when I saw them in Scotland in summer 2003, only the bass player Regent Archibauld was still there from the 1990 line-up, which was a really great group.
What are some of these guys doing now? I gather Andre has a studio (recorded Tony McManus' 'Pourquoi Quebec', I think); what about Michel Bordeleau? I thought the way he worked the mandolin into that line-up was excellent.