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"Live in Canada" (10/01/1996) Cajun Sonnier, Jo-El, Stony Plain (Canada)

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"Cajun Pride" (04/08/1997) Cajun Sonnier, Jo-El, Rounder RecordsPersonnel: Jo-El Sonnier (vocals, guitar, French accordion); David Doucet (guitar); "Junior" Martin (steel guitar); Michael Doucet, Tony Thibodeaux (fiddle); David Egan (piano, background vocals); Peter Schwarz (bass); Danny Zeringue (drums). Recorded at Dockside Studio, Maurice, Louisiana in October, 1995. Includes liner notes by Jim Bessman. CAJUN PRIDE was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. The roots-Cajun accordion virtuoso returns with an album that's particularly exquisite, even by his own high standards. Don't take the title too literally, however; several of the songs here--especially the '70s-penned "Juste an Affaire"--also reflect Sonnier's tenure as a mainstream country star (ditto the haunting pedal steel guitar that decorates "Midnight Waltz"). Sonnier's Cajun side is hardly stinted, of course, and the rootsiest numbers here--the sort of Cajun-minimalist "Lake Arthur Special" and the fiddle-driven "Pine Grove Blues" (made famous by the legendary Nathan Abshire) are among the album's best. Sonnier even finds a way to breathe life into Chuck Berry's too-often-covered "Johnny B. Goode," here rendered charmingly in French as "Johnny Fais Bien."

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"Cajun Life" (10/15/1988) Cajun Sonnier, Jo-El, Rounder RecordsPersonnel includes: Jo-el Sonnier (guitar, fiddle, accordion); Michael Doucet, Merlin Fontenot.

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"Cajun Roots" (05/31/1994) Cajun Sonnier, Jo-El, Rounder Records

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"Cajun Blood" (11/11/1999) Cajun Sonnier, Jo-El, Musique De'CAJUN BLOOD was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

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"Cajun Blood" (11/11/1999) Cajun Sonnier, Jo-El, Musique De'CAJUN BLOOD was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

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"Cajun Young Blood" (07/29/1996) Cajun Sonnier, Jo-El, Ace Records (UK)

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"Cajun Roots" (05/31/1994) Cajun Sonnier, Jo-El, Rounder Records

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"Cajun Pride" (04/08/1997) Cajun Sonnier, Jo-El, Rounder RecordsPersonnel: Jo-El Sonnier (vocals, guitar, French accordion); David Doucet (guitar); "Junior" Martin (steel guitar); Michael Doucet, Tony Thibodeaux (fiddle); David Egan (piano, background vocals); Peter Schwarz (bass); Danny Zeringue (drums). Recorded at Dockside Studio, Maurice, Louisiana in October, 1995. Includes liner notes by Jim Bessman. CAJUN PRIDE was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. The roots-Cajun accordion virtuoso returns with an album that's particularly exquisite, even by his own high standards. Don't take the title too literally, however; several of the songs here--especially the '70s-penned "Juste an Affaire"--also reflect Sonnier's tenure as a mainstream country star (ditto the haunting pedal steel guitar that decorates "Midnight Waltz"). Sonnier's Cajun side is hardly stinted, of course, and the rootsiest numbers here--the sort of Cajun-minimalist "Lake Arthur Special" and the fiddle-driven "Pine Grove Blues" (made famous by the legendary Nathan Abshire) are among the album's best. Sonnier even finds a way to breathe life into Chuck Berry's too-often-covered "Johnny B. Goode," here rendered charmingly in French as "Johnny Fais Bien."

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"Cajun Life" (10/15/1988) Cajun Sonnier, Jo-El, Rounder RecordsPersonnel includes: Jo-el Sonnier (guitar, fiddle, accordion); Michael Doucet, Merlin Fontenot.