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Critical Praise for Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
"...the band displays the mastery that has made it a Louisiana
dance hall favorite for years..."
- Billboard Magazine
"...Their latest, the 21st century Happytown,
shows the Playboys defining modern Cajun music on their own
terms while simultaneously digging at its roots and extending
the branches. Intriguing compositions to say the least, they're
the Playboys' envisionment of how Cajun music may have evolved
if the language had never been shelled by the near death blows
of Americanization. A brilliantly hip record, this is one to
be lived with..."
- Dan Willging, Offbeat Magazine
"...Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys burned down the
dance hall, marking their arrival as Cajun music's most technically
adept, musically vivacious young outfit..."
- The Austin Chronicle
"...Cajun music’s most likely to succeed..."
- Billboard Magazine
"...the hottest young star in Cajun music..."
- U.S. News & World Report
"...the keepers of the contemporary Cajun keys..."
- Creative Loafing
" ...at the forefront of the new breed of traditional-but-progressive
Louisiana bands...composing
instant classics...the best of the genre's past, present and
future..."
- Musician Magazine
"...clearly the best Cajun musicians of the younger, post-Beausoleil
generation..."
- Washington Post
"...what will make this band worth watching in the years
to come is its recent movement toward material that applies
a tradition-steeped sensibility and skills to songs that can
reach out to a contemporary, pop-grounded audience..."
- Los Angeles Times
"This is the best young Cajun band in the country, hot
on the heels of Beausoleil."
- Let The Good Times Roll!: A Guide to Cajun & Zydeco
Music
"The Playboys are not just a great Cajun band anymore--they're
a great band."
- Times-Picayune
"It was absolutely pleasurable to hear music executed with
understatement, that also really rocked."
- OffBeat Magazine
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