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Ray Lewis
5/6/2010 8:30 PM at MARY-LOU and TAMMERLIN
1704 San Marco Blvd, SAN MARCO- Jacksonville, Florida 32207
Cost: $10
MARY-LOU
One foot in America, one foot in Brittany, the west part of France, Mary-Lou have been playing their country-folk songs for fourteen years. Their inspiration comes from traditional music of North America mixed with the french songs tradition.
The lyrics are about Acadia, Mississippi, Louisiana, swamps, and french stories. Mary and Jean-Luc are very interested in stories of the deep south, the hobos, the trains, the dust storms that’s why they also love to play old covers from jug bands, old country songs, Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Pasty Cline tunes.
Mary-Lou brings in France sounds and colours of that America that french people love.
That’s why, year after year they have been asked to play in many festivals and stages in all parts of France and Europe. They played with Their friends of the Tammerlin band for a few concerts in USA in 2007.
They have recorded six cds "Honky-Tonk Music" in 1998, "Histoires Vraies (ou pas)" in 2000, "Les orages de poussière" in 2003, "Americana Favorites" in 2006 a DVD "Mary-Lou en concert" in 2006 too and the band new "Courrier Transatlantique" in 2009. All these records are still available in their label. More than 25 musicians have been invited on these recordings, and they like to have friends on stage with them.
Mary-Lou is :
Mary : vocals, guitar, washboard, fiddle
Jean-Luc : vocals, guitar, dobro, harmonica, accordeon
With more than 1200 concerts, the band follows his own independant road playing his unique and sweet synthesis between popular american music and french songs.
With Special Guest - Tammerlin
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