Hello Jack,

As far as I know all the band members are alive and kicking. It's the band itself that ceased to exist. (for a while or permanently, i don't know)

Maybe you would like to mail to Bas? basvanderpoll@hetnet.nl

He lives just eight miles away from me, which is, by American standards, just around the corner. I seldom meet him, for he is always busy with I don't know what, but as far as i know he's doing fine. He seems more into oldtime fiddling nowadays, but still plays the Cajun box.
my mail address: peervdb@gmail.com.

Oh, c'est dommage. J'aimais bien Cajun Company, groupe traditionel, ça faisait longtemps qu'ils jouaient ensemble. Peut-être on les reverra. C'est la vie des musiciens !

Marc

Their website (#1) is still there.
Nice traditional Cajun music, combined with harmony singing. They made some great CDs with Dirk Powell as a producer.
I hope some day they will get together again. Maybe Nout knows? Or Ron?

I hope so too. I liked this band very much and always enjoyed their performances every time they came to Saulieu. All their CDs are great. They also wrote new tunes, like this catchy "Balcaskie two-step" written by Bas that can be heard on their site (#8):

http://www.cajuncompany.net/ccsite/cdprairie.html

Maybe it's already obvious but hack is not a Cajun word. It's an English word. Or at least in the southern United States. Jimmie Rodgers used the word in Frankie and Johnny. It just sounds like a wagon.

Bring out your rubber-tired buggy
Bring out your rubber-tired hack
I'm taking my man to the graveyard
And I ain't gonna bring him back
'Cause I shot my man
He was doing me wrong

Yeah! That's it! I knew I heard that word before somewhere.
I know it from a Charlie Poole song. (Frankie & Johnnie a.k.a. Leaving Home)

Send for your rubber tired hearses
Send for your rubber tired hacks
Carry my Johnnie to the graveyard
I shot him in the back
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