La Bottine Souriante

Je Voudrais Changer D'Chapeau (1990)



Formed in 1976, they have toured extensively through North America and Europe. As well as the traditional accordion, fiddle, guitar, piano and double bass, the band added a four-piece horn section in 1990 which gives an element of jazz to the music. In 1998, they contributed a song to the Canadian Celtic music compilation by The Chieftains, Fire in the Kitchen.

The group's name means "the smiling boot", which refers to the appearance of a work boot with worn-out soles.

They have received three Canadian Juno awards and several Félix Awards from the Quebec recording industry. They are known for their high energy live performances and in 2000 were voted Best Live Act at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. BBC Radio 3 has also played their music in mainstream programmes.

LBS has changed members numerous times (not unusual for folk groups). Although founder Yves Lambert has left the group, LBS continues to perform and impress audiences far and wide. The composition of the band has changed too, and with it the sound. LBS started out with a very French Canadian feel with guitar, accordion and fiddle but has expanded to include other styles and instruments. With a new wave of young musicians joining the group in 2002, LBS has renewed itself once again.


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01. (00:04:01) La Bottine Souriante - Le festin de campagne / Marie sauce ton pain
02. (00:03:50) La Bottine Souriante - La gigue de M. Lasanté / La gigue à Médée
03. (00:02:58) La Bottine Souriante - C'est dans Paris
04. (00:01:36) La Bottine Souriante - Le reve du Quêteux Tremblay 1
05. (00:04:32) La Bottine Souriante - La brunette est là / Les quatre fers en l'air
06. (00:01:44) La Bottine Souriante - Belle Virginie
07. (00:04:47) La Bottine Souriante - Je voudrais changer d'chapeau / Reel Béatrice
08. (00:02:59) La Bottine Souriante - Les filles de La Rochelle
09. (00:03:32) La Bottine Souriante - La valse des bélugas
10. (00:04:49) La Bottine Souriante - Hommage à Edmond Parizeau / Dedicado à Jos
11. (00:03:38) La Bottine Souriante - La contumace
12. (00:01:58) La Bottine Souriante - Le reve du Quêteux Tremblay 2

Playing Time.........: 00:40:23
Total Size...........: 92.46 MB



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En Spectacle (1996)




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01. (00:08:10) La Bottine Souriante - Ouverture
02. (00:03:51) La Bottine Souriante - Sur la Route (La Tapinie)
03. (00:05:04) La Bottine Souriante - Suite de la Sauvagesse
04. (00:04:07) La Bottine Souriante - Ch'pas Capable (La Montagne du Loup)
05. (00:04:25) La Bottine Souriante - Le Voyage De Basile
06. (00:05:30) La Bottine Souriante - Chapeau
07. (00:01:53) La Bottine Souriante - Virginie Adieu
08. (00:03:07) La Bottine Souriante - Le Rêve Musical (Le Rêve du Quéteux Tremblay)
09. (00:04:34) La Bottine Souriante - Un Coup Madame
10. (00:03:51) La Bottine Souriante - La Galloppe de la Rive-Sud
11. (00:05:02) La Bottine Souriante - Le Lanlire (La Poule à Colin)
12. (00:03:57) La Bottine Souriante - À Travers la Vitre
13. (00:04:15) La Bottine Souriante - La Chanson de l'Ivrogne
14. (00:04:26) La Bottine Souriante - La Cuisinière
15. (00:07:19) La Bottine Souriante - La Grand'Côte
16. (00:01:36) La Bottine Souriante - Son P'tit Bidoulidou

Playing Time.........: 01:11:07
Total Size...........: 162.81 MB




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Rock & Reel (1998)




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01. (00:03:52) La Bottine Souriante - Reel Du Forgeron (The Blacksmith's Reel)
02. (00:03:37) La Bottine Souriante - Les Trois Cavaliers (The Three Horsemen)
03. (00:03:49) La Bottine Souriante - Arin Quèbec (Arin Quebec)
04. (00:04:56) La Bottine Souriante - Chanson De Mathurin (Mathurin's Song)
05. (00:04:58) La Bottine Souriante - Medley Des Éboulements (Landslide Village Medley)
06. (00:04:09) La Bottine Souriante - Ciel D'automne (Autumn Sky)
07. (00:05:42) La Bottine Souriante - Yoyo-Verret ( Yo Yo-Verret)
08. (00:05:36) La Bottine Souriante - Suite Métisse (Metis Suite)
09. (00:03:20) La Bottine Souriante - Un Air Si Doux (An Air So Sweet)
10. (00:02:05) La Bottine Souriante - Alice Au Pays D'Arto (Alice in the Land of Arto)
11. (00:03:47) La Bottine Souriante - Prélude - Valse (Prelude - Waltz)
12. (00:02:44) La Bottine Souriante - Ami De La Bouteille (Friend of the Bottle)
13. (00:03:15) La Bottine Souriante - Margot Fringue (Margot Fringue)

Playing Time.........: 00:51:48
Total Size...........: 118.60 MB




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Cordial (2001)




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01. (00:03:11) La Bottine Souriante - Dans Paris y'a une brune
02. (00:04:04) La Bottine Souriante - La Grondeuse
03. (00:04:34) La Bottine Souriante - Le Démon sort de l'enfer
04. (00:03:31) La Bottine Souriante - Set à Ubert
05. (00:02:43) La Bottine Souriante - En P'tit Boggie
06. (00:03:42) La Bottine Souriante - Aimé
07. (00:03:44) La Bottine Souriante - Lune de miel
08. (00:03:11) La Bottine Souriante - Suède Inn
09. (00:02:37) La Bottine Souriante - J'ai fait une maitresse
10. (00:03:53) La Bottine Souriante - A bas les rideaux
11. (00:02:17) La Bottine Souriante - Les noces d'or
12. (00:02:35) La Bottine Souriante - Viens-tu prendre une bière?
13. (00:03:05) La Bottine Souriante - Ma Paillasse
14. (00:02:55) La Bottine Souriante - Chant de la luette
15. (00:05:41) La Bottine Souriante - Reel de Baie St-Paul
16. (00:07:23) La Bottine Souriante - Et boucle La Bottine

Playing Time.........: 00:59:05
Total Size...........: 135.27 MB




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Anthologie (2001)




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01. (00:05:02) La Bottine Souriante - Le reel de Pointe-au-Pic
02. (00:04:22) La Bottine Souriante - Le p'tit porte-clé
03. (00:03:22) La Bottine Souriante - Les patins de Pauline/Le petit bûcheux
04. (00:04:10) La Bottine Souriante - 2033
05. (00:04:21) La Bottine Souriante - R&C
06. (00:04:49) La Bottine Souriante - Pinci-pincette
07. (00:04:21) La Bottine Souriante - La chanson du quéteux
08. (00:02:38) La Bottine Souriante - Le reel des soucoupes volantes
09. (00:03:07) La Bottine Souriante - Yoyo
10. (00:03:42) La Bottine Souriante - A travers la vitre
11. (00:03:41) La Bottine Souriante - Le Rossignol sauvage
12. (00:02:55) La Bottine Souriante - La traversée de l'Atlantique/Le set carré à Pitou Boudreault
13. (00:04:18) La Bottine Souriante - Le plus beau jour
14. (00:03:51) La Bottine Souriante - Le reel du forgeron
15. (00:04:36) La Bottine Souriante - Mon père mariez-moi donc/Le reel des nouveaux mariés
16. (00:03:00) La Bottine Souriante - C'est dans Paris
17. (00:03:16) La Bottine Souriante - Reel de Jos Cormier
18. (00:04:02) La Bottine Souriante - Le rap à Ti-pétang
19. (00:03:28) La Bottine Souriante - La valse des bélugas

Playing Time.........: 01:12:59
Total Size...........: 167.09 MB




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J'ai jamais tant ri (2003)




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01. (00:03:13) La Bottine Souriante - Tiguidou pack-sack
02. (00:02:49) La Bottine Souriante - Paye la traite
03. (00:04:28) La Bottine Souriante - La Gronde
04. (00:03:28) La Bottine Souriante - J'ai jamais tant ri
05. (00:05:15) La Bottine Souriante - De Tido à Ti-douard
06. (00:03:28) La Bottine Souriante - La vie d'un garçon
07. (00:03:32) La Bottine Souriante - Le moine Simon
08. (00:04:14) La Bottine Souriante - L'homme à deux femmes
09. (00:03:45) La Bottine Souriante - Le bon curé
10. (00:02:24) La Bottine Souriante - La veillée du voisin
11. (00:03:53) La Bottine Souriante - Hommage à Gilles Brunet
12. (00:04:32) La Bottine Souriante - ma femme est morte
13. (00:03:22) La Bottine Souriante - Reel ados
14. (00:03:13) La Bottine Souriante - Si l'hiver peut prendre
15. (00:03:06) La Bottine Souriante - Reel à Ti-Mile
16. (00:02:24) La Bottine Souriante - La p'tite boulangère

Playing Time.........: 00:57:05
Total Size...........: 130.69 MB




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Y'a ben du changement




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01 Sur la montagne du loup (On Wolf Mountain) – 4:10
02 Trinque l'amourette (Toast to a Love Affair) – 3:51
03 La ronfleuse Gobeil (The Snoring Gobeil1) – 4:01
04 Pinci-Pincette – 4:46
05 Y'a ben du changement (There's a Lot of Change) – 4:17
06 2033 (Le Manifeste d'un vieux chasseur d'oïes) (2033 [Manifesto of an Old Goose Hunter]) – 4:10
07 La Banqueroute (Bankruptcy) – 3:30
08 Réel des ouvriers (Workers' Reel) – 2:41
09 L'Ivrogne (The Drunkard) – 3:42
10 Sur la grand côte (On the Great Coast) – 1:51
11 La Tuque rouge (The Red Tuque) – 2:59
12 Le Réel à bouche acadien (Acadian Mouth Reel) – 1:38


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Gilles Cantin: guitar, feet, vocals
Mario Forest: harmonica, vocals
Yves Lambert: accordion, harmonica, vocals
Pierre Laporte: fiddle)
André Marchand: guitar, vocals
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1978 • Les productions Mille-Pattes MMPCD 265
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192 kbps CBR • downloaded somewhere else, thanks to the unknown uploader, low-re scan
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This album gathers together a vast repertoire of traditional songs collected primarily from the Cantin family, with the instrumentals originating from the cultural heritage of Québec's Lanaudière region. Y'a ben du changement beautifully preserves the simplicity, vitality and spirit of the group's live performances and was an instant success




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Les epousailles




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01 Les p’tits plaisirs de Basile/Le reel de la chicaneuse
02 Le reel des deux Lisa/La reel du cordonnier
03 Le plaisirs de la table/La javalsurkadu grain de beauté
04 La chanson des pommes de terre
05 Le reel du pendu
06 La nuoti de noce/La rosée du matin/Tire la langue
07 La confession d’un moribond
08 La sauvagesse/La belle catherine/Le reel à neuf
09 La chanson d’un embetê
10 La chanson de la langue française/La reel à Blanchette/La reel à Pierre Léon
11 Mon peer mariez-moi donc/Le reel de noveux mariés


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Gilles Cantin: guitar, feet, vocals
Guy Bouchard: guitar, violin vocals
Yves Lambert: accordion, harmonica
Pierre Laporte: fiddle. mandolin, feet vocals
André Marchand: guitar, piano, feet, vocals
Martin Racine: fiddle, vocals
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Lisa Ornstein: fiddle
Daniel Roy: bones
Normand Miron, Marie Aubin, Elisabeth Grenier, Lina Remon, Jean-Pierre Rivest: choir
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1980 • Gamma GCD-256
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Chic'n'swell




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01. Le batteux/La grand gigue simple
02. La tapinie/Le reel des voyageurs
03. Sur le chemin du mont
04. Le rossignol sauvage
05. Nos braves habitants
06. La danse de foins
07. Le bal chez ti-Guy
08. Les robineux
09. Les patins de Pauline/Le petit bûcheux
10. La ziguezon
11. Le tablier du macon/Le reel à Rémi
12. Les trois capitaines

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Yves Lambert: accordion, harmonica, vocals
André Marchand: guitar, piano, feet, vocals
Martin Racine: fiddle, mandolin, vocals
Daniel Roy: flageolet, Jew’s harp, bones, bodhran, vocals
Mario Forest: harmonica, vocals
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Lisa Ornstein: fiddle
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1982 • Mille-Pattes MP-2033
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192 kbps CBR • downloaded somewhere else, thanks to the unknown uploader




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La traversée de l'Atlantique




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01 Sur le pont d'Avignon – 3:18
02 Le meunier et la jeune fille – 3:15
03 Le reel des vieux/Le reel à Jules Verret – 2:57
04 J'aurai le vin/Le reel du petit cheval de bois – 4:38
05 La belle ennuitée – 2:00
06 La traversée de l'Atlantique/Le set carré à Pitou Boudreault – 2:49
07 Le lac à Beauce / Le reel St-Jean – 3:45
08 La Madelon – 2:33
09 Le reel du mal de dos/Le reel à Jean-Marie Verret – 2:34
10 La Chanson des menteries – 4:18
11 Hommage à Philippe Bruneau / La Valse d'hiver – 4:18
12 La chanson des pompiers – 2:12
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André Marchand: guitar, feet, vocals
Martin Racine: fiddle, vocals
Yves Lambert: accordion, harmonica, vocals
Bernard Simard: guitar, vocals
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1982 • Mille-Pattes MP-2033
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192 kbps average VBR • downloaded somewhere else, thanks to the unknown uploader




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Tout comme au jour de l'an




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01 La fille engagère
02 Le réveillon du jour de l'an
03 La parenté
04 La poule à Colin
05 Un dimanche au matin
06 Oublions l'an passé
07 Pot-pourri de l'essouflé
08 Pot-pourri "Surf and turf"
09 Valse Bernadette
10 Reel de Jos Cormier

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Michel Bordeleau: voices, mandola, mandoline
Denis Frechette: piano
Yves Lambert: harmonica, accordion, voices
André Marchand: guitar, feet, voices
Martin Racine: voices, violone, mandola
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1987 • Les disques Mille-pattes MMPCD 2035
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320 kbps CBR (02 @ 192 kbps CBR) • incomplete scans • thanks to the unknown uploader




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Jusqu'aux p'tites heures




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01 La chanson du quéteux
02 Le reel de Pointe-au-Pic
03 Un p'tit coup mesdames
04 Nuit sauvage
05 Par un dimanche au soir (ou Ninette)
06 L'Acadienne
07 Émilien
08 Corps mort/Fleur de Mandragore
09 Turlutte des 33 voleurs
10 Brandy Payette
11 Picoro
12 «Dérap» de la guerre

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Régent Archambault: double bass, vocals
Michel Bordeleau: mandolin, violin, guitar, snare drum, vocals
Laflèche Doré: trumpet
Robert Ellis: bass trombone
Denis Fréchette: piano, piano accordion, vocals, brass arrangement
Jean Fréchette: saxophone, brass arrangement
Yves Lambert: melodion, accordion, harmonica, vocals
Martin Racine: violin, vocals, guitar, piano accordion
André Verreault: trombone
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1991 • Les production Mille-pattes MP 2037
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La Mistrine



The final track on the Chieftains' Canadian tribute album, Fire in the Kitchen, led me on a quest in Toronto to find more by French-Canadian band La Bottine Souriante. I found several albums (There are entire French-Canadian SECTIONS in some Canadian music stores!) but, because they were all labeled entirely in French, I ended up choosing one based primarily on cover appeal. La Mistrine features a 16th century painting of peasants dancing by Peter Bruegel, if you're interested in that sort of thing. Opening it up later, I discover I can't read anything in the liner notes, either. (Ignorant Americans beware, it's all in French.) But I don't worry too much about it. The music -- and let's face it, I don't buy albums for the liner notes -- is excellent.
The French-Canadian style is a variant on Celtic traditional music via Brittany, the Celtic coast of France. It is experiencing a resurgence in Canada these days (It pays to listen to public radio when you're in Canada if you want to learn this sort of thing. By odd coincidence, I tuned into a program on the French-Canadian revival before my rental car was out of the Toronto Airport parking lot) and, if it follows on the heels of its cousin from Canada's eastern shores, it should spread farther afield.
The 10-member La Bottine Souriante isn't content with a pure drop of tradition, however. To my ear, it sounds like something you'd hear in New Orleans today if a large contingent of Irish immigants had settled there a few centuries ago. There is plenty of Celtic flair, featuring the usual assortment of fiddles, guitars, an accordion, mandolin, piano and several voices. But throw in a brassy Dixieland component: trombone, saxophone, trumpet, harmonica ... is that a Jew's harp I hear? Wow, this definitely isn't the sort of thing you'll hear in an Irish pub, or even in a Newfoundland kitchen.
On top of it all are some bouncy, happy vocalizations -- all in French, of course. Again, I understand not a word of it (although that did sound like "mayonaisse" just there) but, again, it doesn't really matter. This is good, solid, lively music that gets into your bones and sets your feet to tappin'. One hopping set of reels is called "Le Reel Irlandais ou Bees Wax, Skin Sheep," and even my French is good enough to guess that these tunes are straight from Ireland. But the mandolin melody makes way for some fine, dirty sax, and the brass section throughout gives the tune an unusual sparkle. The song "Le Rap a Ti-Petang" might not sound Irish, but I suspect many an Irish musician would gladly down a few pints of Guinness to this merry accompaniment.
The title track, "La Mistrine," has a plodding, lazy rhythm which puts me in mind of a romantic Sunday jaunt through the countryside on horseback. Someone will probably translate the lyrics and tell me it's about post-nasal drip or somesuch thing, but until then, I'm sticking to my interpretation. Another tune, "La Tourtiere," sounds like a song about food, but then again I could be projecting my own hunger.
Oddly, the tune which first drew me to the band, "Le Lys Vert" on the Chieftains' Fire in the Kitchen, is performed here in an earlier arrangement. At least, it sounds like it to me, but it has an entirely different name this time: "Le Reel de la Main Blanche." Who knows, perhaps "Le Lys Vert" and "Le Reel de la Main Blanche" are synonyms in French.
Tom Knapp - Rambles


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01 Le reel des soucoupes volantes (2:33)
02 Ici-bas sur terre (3:31)
03 Martin de la chasse-galerie (3:54)
04 La Mistrine (2:50)
05 Le reel de la main blanche (2:18)
06 La tourtière (3:19)
07 Le reel irlandais (ou Sheepskin beeswax) (3:40)
08 Christophe (6:12)
09 La complainte du folkloriste (3:10)
10 Le rap à ti-pétang (3:58)
11 Reel de la sauvagine (4:10)
12 Dans nos vieilles maisons (3:39)

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André Marchand: guitar
Regent Archambault: voices, contrabass, 6-string electric bass
Michel Bordeleau: guitar, voices, violone, mandoline
Jean Frechette: harmonica, tenor sax, voices, melodeon
Martin Racine: guitar, voices, violone
Michel Dupire: percussion
Dominique Messier: drums
Jocelyn Lapointe: trumpet
Ron DiLauro: trumpet, bugle
Andre Verreault: trombone
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1994 • Les productions Mille-pattes MPCD 2038 • Hemisphere 5259592
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