DENNIS MCGEE
This group of selections is from my archive of home tapes of Dennis McGee. I expect that most of you reading this will know him. This session is one of many that are housed in the collections of the Center for Louisiana Studies as the William Alfred Spires and Delilah Lee Lewis files. Logging of these tapes is in progress, but thanks are due here to Ian Law, for editing and track separation, and to Delilah Lee Lewis and Karen Monson for initial logging and editing. This is the tip of a large iceberg, and for those of you who may point out that they don’t have icebergs in Louisiana I can only say, watch the Antarctic ice sheet. All tracks were recorded by Will Spires in 1976.
Here is a primer of the traditional music of French-speaking Louisianna, featuring Dennis McGee, with notes by my colleague Ann Savoy and by myself.
The complete early recordings of Dennis McGee, 1929–1930.
Dennis McGee with Ernest Frugé & Sady Courville
YAZOO (A subsidiary of Shanachie Records). 1994.
