This month we’re featuring one of South Louisiana’s hottest singer/songwriter/guitar bad@$$es, Chas Justus. His music has been played by Linda Rondstadt on her Grammy-nominated album, Adieu False Heart, and as a founding member of the Red Stick Ramblers, he is part of the backbone of the South Louisiana music scene. Not to mention, he does (and will continue to if we are lucky) appear in some capacity on most Valcour releases.
Check it out as Chas features his skills as a front man on our latest entry of Artist of the Month!
Don’t have your own copy of the magazine? Read about the “Best of the Beat” winners here.
We’d like to thank everyone who voted for us in the 2007 Offbeat Magazine Best of the Beat Awards! Thanks to you we walked away with not only the Cajun Album of the Year for the acclaimed Allons Boire un Coup, but also with the Best Record Label business award.
We appreciate your support and your dedication to preserving real music and real artists. We at Valcour Records understand albums deemed “marketable” do not always accurately represent folk artists and we strive to offer you music that is palatable, yet organic. We seek out the most talented and unique artists in South Louisiana and offer their music to you in a natural, roots-oriented manner. We know that with these awards, you have placed your trust in us.
Please continue to support us as we develop our catalog and our artists. We promise to keep music musical and to offer you only the best of what Louisiana has to offer.
Valcour Records is now on Flickr. As our photo collection has grown, we have more and more great shots from recording sessions, festivals, concerts, parties, and otherwise that are too good to not share, but too numerous to put here. Our resident photographer extraordinaire, Lucius Fontenot, who produces nearly 100% of our photos, will be managing the Valcour Flickr collection.
Just click through the pages of photos, view a slideshow, or use the sets on the right side of the Valcour Flickr page to view photos by event. For example, we have the largest online collection of photos from the 2007 South Louisiana Black Pot Festival and Cookoff, which you can view by clicking the Black Pot link on the right side of the page. Look around, leave some comments, and add us as a contact. We’d love to hear from you!
