I was about to start a thread when I listened to the anthology for the first time this summer and I'm glad to see that you folks already shared their impressions about this amazing music. As the liner notes on the reedition says, these songs gathered together gives a so STRANGE result...

I was surprise that I already knew about fifteen songs or tunes - they were sung by others artists. Since then, it seems that the musical field is unlimited and remains for a big part unknown, that an whole side of the history was hidden and I just begin to discover it. I listen every morning to the fiddle tunes on the second volume - they sounds so melancholic... and then I listen le vieux soulard et sa femme and lough out loud when the old drunkard says Je m'en vais me souler! (I'm going to get drunk!)...

SP