Jolie Bassette
- Artist: Sauce Piquante Band, with Blair Kilpatrick on Cajun accordion and vocals
- Album: not yet released
- Length: 2:42 minutes (2.48 MB)
- Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
"Jolie Bassette" is a traditional high-energy Cajun-Creole dance tune performed by Sauce Piquante.
Personnel: Blair Kilpatrick on accordion and vocals, Steve Tabak on fiddle, Robert Richard on guitar, Kathy Price on bass, Kathy Dodge on drums. Recorded and mixed by Alec Tabak (Blair and Steve's musician/recording engineer son, whose new NYC indie rock band "Attack Release" is starting to generate a buzz!) This is a track from Sauce Piquante's upcoming CD. The band's debut recording, Sauce Piquante Live, is available online through CD Baby. Just follow the link.
"Bassette" is a term of endearment in Louisiana French. It means "short woman." (Blair qualifies!). In essence, the song is about a pretty little woman who does her man wrong--in French, of course, which makes it sound more elegant than it really is. This is earthy music! Think country western in French--except the rhythm has that special South Louisiana lope. Like an egg-shaped wheel, one of my teachers used to say.
"Tu m'as fais du mal, bassette, mais moi j'peux plus t'aimer." You hurt me, little woman, so I can't love you any more. You caused me pain, doll, so I can't see you anymore. But a day is coming, jolie bassette, when you're gonna cry. Oh yeah!
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shaynexus (not verified) says:
Thank you!
Who could listen to you for two minutes and 40 seconds and not smile and stomp their feet? Why not make videos and put your group on Youtube.com. Let the entire world see and enjoy Sauce Piquante. You folks might become international household names.
And thank you for the encapsulated history of your genre and of the tune Jolie Bassette.
Hey! I like okra, too.
Matthew Biberman says:
It rocks
Spent a week in N.O. in 1987 and stayed with friends who were then in school at Tulane. Saw the Neville Bros at Tips, a good band at Tyler's, the Radiators at another place, oh and the SubDudes when they were a bar band, brass bands on the street, I even ended up in a house where the band was set up in the kitchen and the singer stood in the doorway. Saw more bands than I can remember. I have been there several times but that trip stands out. You guys would have fit right in. Great stuff.
Blair Kilpatrick says:
Thanks so much, Matthew!
Thanks so much, Matthew! We've had some great trips to New Orleans, too, and of course heard some great music. (Although it should be pointed out that Cajun-Creole music is based in the area to the southwest, centered on Lafayette. So that's where my musical "home" really is.) Even been to the N.O. Jazz Festival? We made it there for the first time few years ago, the last year before Katrina. So sad to realize it won't ever be the same.
Blair Kilpatrick says:
Thanks, Dennis! I don't
Thanks, Dennis! I don't know about household names, but the fellow who took the video does plan to post on Youtube. I've actually signed a permission form, but he want us to look at the video first, supposed to invite us over to his house or something. I'll let you all know! Okra, hmm, not crazy about it. Fried okra is okay.