Link Davis - Laissez Les Bon-ta-ru-la (Let The Good Times Roll) (10 INCH)
1-LP (10' vinyl) with 8-page booklet, 12 tracks (LP) / 26 tracks (CD). -Bear Family Records® presents the first high-quality vinyl LP (25 cm) with recordings of the blues shouting rocker, fiddle and sax player Link Davis from Northeast Texas.-His 1953 rendition of the Cajun anthem Big Mamou helped open the door to this often-closed and clannish culture.-Davis is considered as much a Acadian as those whose ancestors made the exiled journey from Nova Scotia in the eighteenth century.-Link laid down his unique sound -- an amalgamation of Cajun, blues and rockabilly that culminated in 1958 with the rocker Bon-Ta-Ru La (Let The Good Times Roll).-A Gulf Coast musical gumbo featuring rockers (Permit Blues, Airliner, Come Dance With Me), bayou blues (Rice & Gravy), swamp ballads (Visions, Memories Of You) and sax instrumentals (Beatle Bug).-The sound of the Cajuns was buoyed by brilliant guitarists Junior Beck and Joey Long.-This collection features liner notes penned by music historian M