MARY-LOU
One foot in America, one foot in Brittany, the west part of France, Mary-Lou have been playing their country-folk songs since 1996. The inspiration of the band comes from traditional music of North America, especially from the deep south (bluegrass, cajun,blues, country balades, folk, ...)  mixed with the french songs tradition.
The songs talk about Acadia, Mississippi, Louisiana, swamps, … french lyrics telling stories of the deep south, the hobos, the trains, the dust storms …  and the America of the people.
They love Blues, jug bands, old country songs, Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills Pasty Cline, Woody and Arlo Guthrie, the folk singers, the western swing.
Mary-Lou brings in France sounds and colours of that America that french people love.
That's why, year after year they have been asked to play in many festivals and stages in all parts of France and in Switzerland and Holland. They spend part of their time in the USA (North Carolina, Florida, Tennesse). They went for a tour in small places and Festivals in the spring of 2009, and their next tour in planned for the spring 2011 with their friends of the Tammerlin Band.

The Mary-Lou band has recorded six cds and one dvd :  Teses ones are still available :

    - "Mary-Lou 1998/2000" reedition of "Honky-Tonk Music" and "Histoires Vraies         (ou pas)" (double)

    - "Les orages de poussière" in 2003,

    - "Americana Favorites" in 2006

    - "Mary-Lou en concert" (DVD) in 2006

    - "Courrier Transatlantique" in 2009

The Mary-Lou band is also on a very good compilation of french bluegrass and folk : FRANCE BLUEGRASS 2

All these records are still available on the label of the band : Louise Bell Prod.

The price of the cds and dvd is 10 Euros, except for the double ones (15 Euros)

You can order on the band website, just by clicking here with Paypal

or on different online shops like

CD BABY (Price : $ 13)

More than 25 musicians have been invited on these recordings, and they like to have friends on stage with them.

Mary-Lou (Mary: vocals, guitar, washboard, snare, fiddle, Jean-Luc: vocals, guitars, dobro, harmonica, accordeon, kick) with Stephane Dhondt since 2007 (piano, organ, harmony vocals)

English blog and news :  http://marylouenglish.canalblog.com/

Videos : http://www.youtube.com/user/Marylouband

MySpace : http://www.myspace.com/marylouband