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we are happy to announce:
TALK OF THE TOWN
THE SONS OF JOHNNIE BOUDREAUX ALL NEW ORIGINAL SONGS CONTINUING THE EXPLOITS OF THE MAN "too good lookin' for his own good" DUE FOR RELEASE FALL 2008 NATIONWIDE ********************************** The story continues… After the 2006 release of Trouble on the Levee, many people wanted to hear more about the story of Johnnie Boudreaux, the man “too good lookin’ for his own good.”
Talk of the Town continues that story, and incorporates many of the characters from the original tale, as Johnnie returns to New Orleans to try to save his son from the hangman’s noose. Once again I was able to enlist the talents of world-renowned drummer, Dave Mattacks, and many of the accomplished musicians who performed on Trouble on the Levee, to bring this second chapter of Johnnie’s “Cajun Opera” to you.
OFFICIAL CD RELEASE PARTY
SCULLERS JAZZ CLUB WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 **************** TROUBLE ON THE LEVEE
22 WEEKS ON THE CHARTS
TOP TEN !!!
| TW | LW | Artist: | CD Title: | Label: | Weeks On: | Location: | 1 | 1 | CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED | GARAGE | UNIVERSAL | 3 | TX | 2 | 6 | FRANK CARILLO & THE BANDOLEROS | BAD OUT THERE | JEZEBEL RECORDS | 36 | NY | 3 | 29 | MIKE MCCLURE BAND | CAMELOT FALLING | SMITH ENTERTAINMENT | 3 | TX | 4 | 4 | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN | THE SEEGER SESSIONS | COLUMBIA | 6 | NJ | 5 | NEW | RODNEY CROWELL | THE OUTSIDER | SUGAR HILL | 1 | TN | 6 | 15 | MICKY & THE MOTORCARS | CARELESS | SELF | 3 | | 7 | NEW | JAMES MCMURTRY | CHILDISH THINGS | COMPADRE | 1 | TX | 8 | 8 | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN | WE SHALL OVERCOME | COLUMBIA | 6 | CA | 9 | 11 | COPPERHEAD | REMEDY | BEE BOX | 2 | TN | 10 | 16 | DIGNEY FIGNUS | TROUBLE ON THE LEVEE | FIGTONE MUSIC | 4 | |
THANK YOU CHICAGO! "Anybody in the house remember Digney Fignus' "Girl With The Curious Hand?" Yep, it's the same one that won the MTV "Basement Tapes" contest in 1984. Well, Digney is back with a "Cajun Opera" that knocked both of us out so, we thought we'd share it with the class and make this week's "New Music Monday" feature album "Trouble On The Levee" by Digney Fignus." STEVE AND JOHNNIE, WGN, CHICAGO ****************************************** GO, GO, GUMBO
Cajun cookin’ scores for
Boston songwriter
“Life like stew…” is how the lyric goess in Digney's surprise hit GUMBO, picked as a finalist inthe WUMB songwriting contest.
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The “Cajun Opera” started to come together when I met Dave Mattacks in the summer of 2004 at the National Folk Festival in Bangor Maine. He agreed to play drums on a few tunes I had written, so we went into the studio in December of 2004 and recorded the first six songs on the CD. The project was beginning to take shape, and a musical theme was emerging, so I wrote a few more tunes that we recorded in May of 2005, (Mothers Day), to complete the recording. As I was sequencing the songs something strange happened. The characters in the songs started to take on lives of their own. They began telling me the story of Johnnie Boudreaux and his adventures on the river. How a man “too good lookin’ for his own good” could live himself to death, and still manage a laugh at his own funeral. It’s a story about love, lust, Voodoo and incest, moonshine, gangsters, and cheatin’ fools. Wrap that up in a natural disaster and you’ve got Johnnie’s world, New Orleans 1927. I hope you enjoy it. Best Wishes, DF
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