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From: golchowy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
Subject: Re: That Damn Canadian Band List !
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.163533.27494@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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References: <1990Jan9.221510.12163@ug.cs.dal.ca> <1269@maytag.waterloo.edu> <354@images1.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <1990Jan17.073145.10151@agate.berkeley.edu>
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 90 16:35:33 GMT

In article <1990Jan17.073145.10151@agate.berkeley.edu> link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes:
>In article <354@images1.Waterloo.NCR.COM> g.simmons@Waterloo.NCR.COM (Gregg Simmons) writes:
>>In summary:
>>Daniel Lanois - producer of Peter Gabriel, U2, Bob Dylan, etc.; also has solo
>>	        album out; he is from Hamilton, Ontario
>
>Oh yeah, eh?
>
>The February 1990 issue of CD Review claims that Daniel Lanois' album
>is *Cajun* music.
>
>Hope they choke on back bacon.
>
>Richard Link, Ph.D.
>Space Sciences Laboratory

Lanois is from Hamilton, and has Acadian roots I think. I may be
in error, but the Cajun's down in Lousiana are Acadians...the
Acadians who were forced(?) to leave Canada and settled in the
South.  So Acadian music and Cajun music are intimately related.

-- 
Gerald Olchowy   <golchowy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario  M5S 1A1