Ma Jolie Louise, Cover Daniel Lanois

[Jean Pierre]

while reading Daniel Lanois' biography, I learned that he played, among other things (Dobro, guitar, pedal steel, bass) omnichord
The Omnichord is the electronic counterpart of the Auto Harp

..so I decided to cover this song by Daniel Lanoix "ma jolie Louise" using my Auto Harp
The Auto Harp is a nice instrument to play and with a nice sound... but it is a horror to tune from where its low use especially in Live

Photo in Attachment : tuning the Auto Harp (fortunately with the electronic tuner integrated in my DAW Reaper and which is very accurate

The song Jolie louise has the particularity of being sung with a mixture of French and English (Daniel Lanois is from Gatineau, Quebec)

Ma jolie, how do you do?
Mon nom est Jean-Guy Thibault-Leroux
I come from East of Gatineau
My name is Jean-Guy, ma jolie
J'ai une maison à Lafontaine
Where we can live, if you marry me
Une belle maison à Lafontaine
Where we will live, you and me
O-oh Louise... ma jolie Louise
Tous les matins au soleil
I will work till work is done
Tous les matins au soleil
I did work till work is done
And one day the foreman
Said «Jean-Guy, we must let you go
Et puis mon nom, why est pas bon
At the mill any more
O-oh Louise, I'm losing my head
I'm losing my head
My kids are small, four and three
Et la bouteille, she's mon amie
I drink the rum till I can't see
It hides the shame Louise does not see
The carousel turns in my head
And I can't hide, oh no no no no
And the rage turns in my head
And Louise, I struck her down
Down on the ground... I'm losing my mind
I'm losing my mind
En septembre soixante-trois
The kids are gone and so is Louise
Ontario they did go
Near la ville de Toronto
Now my tears, they roll down
Tous les jours, o-o-o-oh
And I remember the days
And the promises that we made
O-oh Louise, ma jolie Louise, ma jolie Louise

[cuthbert]

I enjoyed this very much, JP - it's a great song I didn't know previously, and your autoharp sounds very fine (as does your guitar work).

I have one of these autoharp horrors myself, but it's mainly kept under the bed these days. I should take it out, give it a good dusting and a tuning, and try again.

[Jean Pierre]

Thank you Cuthbert,
there are people who do incredible things with this instrument, in finger picking,...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A_vOz4MEtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbKApkQe2Jk

I plan to make a video this weekend to show it in action with the other instruments I play: bass, acoustic guitar and electric in this song

[Ted]

For me, the star of this song is the accordion. How many times have I left the comment "I'm a sucker for accordion?" Six times, including just now. Is that a real accordion, or a synth. It sounds real, and synth accordions never do.

It's a very well-produced song. The mix is perfect.

Blackout Bump - week of 23 April, 2017

[Jean Pierre]

Thanks Ted for this unexpected Bump

I didn't remember this song and that I recorded it

As far as the accordion goes, it's just a real track (actually a Usertrack, i.e. made by Biab users from samples of their own instrument). 

I like to use it because it provides a very simple tuned accordion track.

have one of these autoharp horrors myself, but it's mainly kept under the bed these days.

yes Cuthberg said that about the auto harp, indeed it's very laborious to tune all the strings, (it's like tuning a piano..) there are 36 of them !!! electronic tuner ESSENTIAL