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XEW has been singing since she could make a sound and absorbing a wide range of music from her father’s hard rock albums to her mother’s pop and gospel records. Growing up in Louisiana also provided a unique influence through the Acadian and Cajun folk music that embraces its people.
Throughout elementary and high school XEW studied voice and sang in the chorus. She began studying to be a recording engineer in college but then turned her back on music feeling it was more of a curse than a blessing. The harder she tried to run from it, the more it consumed her thoughts. This began her search for answers to explain her “burden”.
Cracking open the family history, she discovered many family members were avid musicians in their youth. But it still wasn’t enough to explain how deep the music ran. By chance one day a little family secret emerged. Her great-grandfather was a prolific songwriter and singer in the purest traditional unaccompanied Cajun style. Ceasar Vincent was recorded several times by the legendary folklorist Dr. Harry Oster, who included Ceasar’s songs on various compilation albums. These recordings proved to be more important to French and Acadian culture, and certainly to XEW, than Ceasar might have ever imagined. The world-renowned band BeauSoleil discovered one of those compilation albums in France and recorded Ceasar’s song “Travallier, C’est Trop Dur”, which was later also covered by Zachary Richard and other artists as diverse as reggae musician Alpha Blondy. From the 1950’s, no one could have imagined how far his songs would travel.
Throughout elementary and high school XEW studied voice and sang in the chorus. She began studying to be a recording engineer in college but then turned her back on music feeling it was more of a curse than a blessing. The harder she tried to run from it, the more it consumed her thoughts. This began her search for answers to explain her “burden”.
Cracking open the family history, she discovered many family members were avid musicians in their youth. But it still wasn’t enough to explain how deep the music ran. By chance one day a little family secret emerged. Her great-grandfather was a prolific songwriter and singer in the purest traditional unaccompanied Cajun style. Ceasar Vincent was recorded several times by the legendary folklorist Dr. Harry Oster, who included Ceasar’s songs on various compilation albums. These recordings proved to be more important to French and Acadian culture, and certainly to XEW, than Ceasar might have ever imagined. The world-renowned band BeauSoleil discovered one of those compilation albums in France and recorded Ceasar’s song “Travallier, C’est Trop Dur”, which was later also covered by Zachary Richard and other artists as diverse as reggae musician Alpha Blondy. From the 1950’s, no one could have imagined how far his songs would travel.
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Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
21 May 2011 | from xewmusic.blogspot.com/
inspiration...it can sometimes come in short supply...
so this topic came up on the FAWM forums a while back, and a
friend
there mentioned I should put this together as a blog post...i
kept
forgetting to post it till tonight, when another musician
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- XEW posted a news item ‘Where Do You Get Your Ideas?’. June 2011
- XEW posted a news item ‘Clicking Delete on Negativity...’. January 2011
- XEW posted a news item ‘#Songwriting’. August 2010
- XEW posted a news item ‘Songwriting Tips’. May 2010
- XEW posted a news item ‘Guitar Studies Update’. April 2010
- XEW posted a news item ‘Where I Am...’. March 2010
- XEW posted a news item ‘Something New’. February 2010
- XEW posted a news item ‘FAWM'ing & Little Miracles’. February 2010
- XEW posted a news item ‘My Muse’. February 2010
- XEW posted a news item ‘Lots of good music news to start off the New Year!’. February 2010
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