All the music is on Arhoolie and the recent JSP compilations of early Cajun (and Creole) music. Some of the JSP stuff is pretty weak, so this is probably going to be better. Chris King does a good job with sound restoration.
I'm excited about this too. A good blog that I follow mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. It's frequently updated with good information. Jim I suggest you check it out (and anyone else for that matter!) Website #1 is the blog, and Website #2 is the post about the new cd.
Cajun Early Recordings, JSP7726, has 2 of Ardoin's 34 songs.
Cajun Country, JSP7749, has 18 of the 34 songs.
Rare and Authentic Cajun, JSP77115, has the other 14 of the 34 songs and they are already remastered by Chris King.
So at most it's possibly 20 of the 34 song newly remastered, but that's enough for me to order it.
It's the Cajun Country cd that has some sound problems especially on Valse à Austin Ardoin and Valse des Amities. The Arhoolie versions of those two songs (on CD7007, I'm Never Coming Back) do not sound any better to me.
I'm never coming back is a pleasure to listen at, but if they can make the sound quality better it would be great.
Does somebody knows how they made the recordings in that time.
There were recorders with iron-wire in those days and I saw in the movie "Oh Brother Were Are Thou" a machine that directly cut the mother record ?