Cleveland Crochet & The Sugar Bees - Hillbilly Ramblers And Sugar Bees (CD)

Release Date: 06/18/212-CD (Digisleeve) with 36-page booklet, 38 tracks. Total playing time approx. 90 min.-Long overdue: the complete recordings of Cajun fiddler Cleveland Crochet on Bear Family, including all surviving alternate versions and the originally unreleased masters.-In 1961, a Cajun song made it onto the Billboard pop charts for the first time: Sugar Bee climbed to #80.-These recordings were made between 1954 and 1963 for Folk-Star, Khoury's, Goldband, Lyric and Swallow in Louisiana.-As a bonus, we provide all solo recordings by band members Shorty 'Vorris' LeBlanc (accordion) and Jay Stutes (steel guitar), accompanied almost without exception by Cleveland Crochet's Sugar Bees.-Cajun expert Michael Hurtt wrote the liner notes.-Background information by Chris Strachwitz (Arhoolie Records) and others.-Many previously unpublished photos.-A must for all fans of country music, Cajun, blues and original rock 'n' roll.In the history of U.S. popular music the name Cleveland Crochet