"Joyeux Noël, Bon Chrismeusse" from Lafayette with Chas Justus

<p>Chas Justus' musical taste ends around 1965, he says, and he has made his living playing in roots music bands in Southern Louisiana--the swing band The Red Stick Ramblers, and more recently in The swamp pop band The Revelers. Last fall, he brought together a number of his musical friends to record <a href='https://chasjustus.bandcamp.com/album/joyeux-no-l-bon-chrismeusse'>Joyeux Noël, Bon Chrismeusse</a>, an EP of classic Christmas songs sung in Cajun French. He talks about how the project came about, and how COVID-19 helped make it possible. </p> <p>Along the way, he turns me on to a couple of tracks--Belton Richard's Cajun French version of Buck Owens' "You're All I Want for Christmas," and Chicago guitarist Joel Paterson's "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."</p> <p>I first <a href='https://www.myspiltmilk.com/articles/the-revelers-dont-want-to-grow-up'>interviewed Justus in 2015</a> for MySpiltMilk.com. Here's that story on The Revelers.</p> <p>In this week's episode, I also talk about <a href='https://amzn.to/2YmP8kg'>My Holiday by Mindy Smith</a>, a Christmas album that I think merits more far attention than it gets.  </p>