S6E330 - Pink Floyd 'Meddle' with Louis Michot (Lost Bayou Ramblers)
When we asked this week's guest, Grammy Award winning fiddler/singer/songwriter Louis Michot (Lost Bayou Ramblers) to choose a record to discuss, he went with an album that captured his imagination as a young up-and-coming Louisiana musician and has...
When we asked this week's guest, Grammy Award winning fiddler/singer/songwriter Louis Michot (Lost Bayou Ramblers) to choose a record to discuss, he went with an album that captured his imagination as a young up-and-coming Louisiana musician and has mystified him ever since: Pink Floyd's fascinating 1971 release, 'Meddle'.
"And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the Sun"
Songs discussed in this episode: One Of These Days (8-Bit Version) - 8 Bit Songs; The Bathtub (Live) - Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra & Lost Bayou Ramblers; Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd; Les Beaux Jours, Rêve du Troubadour (feat. Rising Stars Fife and Drum), Le Cas de Marguerite (feat. Bombino, Leyla McCalla) - Louis Michot; One Of These Days, A Pillow Of Winds, Fearless - Pink Floyd; In My Life - The Beatles; San Tropez - Pink Floyd; Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground; Seamus - Pink Floyd; Mountain Jam (Live) - Allman Brothers Band; Echoes, Time, Echoes - Pink Floyd; Amourette (feat. Quintron) - Louis Michot
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Louis Michot
Musician, songwriter
Louis Michot is best known as the fiddle player and lead-singer for the Grammy
award winning Lost Bayou Ramblers, but his passion for Louisiana French, local
folklore, and sustainability are what fuels his career as a musician. Based near
Arnaudville, LA, Louis has been performing professionally for almost three
decades with Les Freres Michot, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Michot’s Melody Makers,
Soul Creole, and 2023 marked his debut solo album Rêve de Troubadour and
adjoining tour schedule.
The last few years have brought special adaptations for Michot, from restarting
his live music during the pandemic, to doing hurricane relief work as noted in
Rolling Stone (Can This Cajun-Punk Musician Protect His Culture From Climate
Change?, September 16, 2021) while raising funds to get solar generators and
panels to residents of Terrebonne Parish affected by Hurricane Ida, as written
about in New Yorker magazine (The Lost Bayou Ramblers Get Lit, January 3,
2022).
Louis began incorporating solar technology into his music operations in 2020,
starting a solar powered studio, and fabricating the “Solar Roller” mobile solar
music stage equipped with solar generator and panels. In early 2020 Louis was
named Louisianian of the Year in 2020 along with his brother Andre, and their
band Lost Bayou Ramblers was named Entertainers of the Year by New Orleans’
Big Easy Awards in 2019.
In 2018, Michot founded Nouveau Electric Records, a record label with the mission
of promoting local music within the experimental and traditional realms, …
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