Pine Leaf Boys: Awards

"The Pine Leaf Boys cast a spell, combining a mysterious past - the nearly forgotten dialect and the archaic squeezebox's red bellows - with an unbiased rock 'n' roll energy conducive to the elbow-flying, hip-swiveling spirit on the dance floor." NEW YORK TIMES

"The next best thing to a dance on a Saturday night in Louisiana!" - ROLLING STONE

Four Grammy™ Nominations four years in a row, making the Pine Leaf Boys the only Cajun/Zydeco band in the world to receive the most number of Grammy nominations

Every Pine Leaf Boy gig to date (click for larger version)

Pine Leaf Boys have a special guest appearance in HBO'S "Treme" performing during a scene. Wilson Savoy got the chance to show off his acting skills (or lack thereof) Click here for a video

Pine Leaf Boys perform two years in a row in foreign embassies including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jerusalem, Denmark, Latvia, and Slovenia in 2009 and 2010

Review of the Pine Leaf Boys performance at the Jazz Fest 2007 by David Fricke

"The Pine Leaf Boys are a Cajun band — no common thing — steeped in tradition (singer-accordionist Wilson Savoy is the son of Cajun performer-scholars Marc and Ann Savoy) but with free-range ambitions in soul, Canned Heat-style boogie, zydeco (the country funk of black Louisiana) and Mardi Gras Indian chants. They did it all — sometimes all at once — in their Jazz Fest set with the tight, headlong delight that makes Blues de Musicien (Arhoolie), their second album, the next best thing to a Saturday night dance in Lafayette."

New York Times

The Pine Leaf Boys have been featured in the New York Times, a two-page, full color spread by Geoffrey Himes.

This [show at Pat's Atchafalaya Club] was the Pine Leaf Boys’ seventh show in five days, and if you had spent the Mardi Gras weekend in Lafayette, the biggest city in the Cajun region known as Acadiana, you could have also seen the Lost Bayou Ramblers at the Blue Moon Saloon on Saturday night and the Red Stick Ramblers at 307 Downtown on Sunday night. At each spot you would have found young dancers responding with the same enthusiasm.

Click here to view the whole article as a PDF.

No Depression

May/June 2007
Cajun Cool

"THE STAGE is covered in people: It's the end of a set and the band has hurriedly pulled folks out of the front rows. You can't see the drummer, girls have surrounded the guitar player, and one guy is shouting in the singer's mike...

"Everything about the Pine Leaf Boys on its surface goes against the traditional notions of Cajun music, which on record and in performance often sounds like the forlorn music of days gone by... but it all comes from an exploration of the roots of their music, "We're trying to go back as far as we can for inspiration, " Watson says.

- Alex Rawls

Big Easy

• The Pine Leaf Boys won BEST CAJUN OF 2006, 2007, and 2008 in the BIG EASY AWARDS

American Routes

The Pine Leaf Boys featured on Nick Spitzer's American Routes which aired in early March.

The audio segment can be downloaded by clicking here.

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Pine Leaf Boys, cover of Offbeat Magazine, September 2006

Pine Leaf Boys share the stage with Taj Mahal

The Pine Leaf Boys shared the stage with the Little Band of Gold at Tipitina's on April 21st 2007, with special guest Robert Plant (lead singer from Led Zeppelin)

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The Pine Leaf Boys on the front cover of the TIMES of Acadiana. Click to read the article.

Pine Leaf Boys were the first ever Cajun / Creole / Zydeco band to play at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, and they were received with wide open arms and an audience of over 100,000.

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JazzFest 2006 Issue

Every once in awhile it happens - the gods of Cajun tap another young group to hoist the banner of traditional Cajun-Creole music and as of late, it’s the Pine Leaf Boys who have been summoned. They’re one of the most talented aggregations to emerge in some time Their auspicious debut is not only true to the roots but has the balanced blend veteran groups shoot for. Among the copious ingredients is a proclivity for attacking the music with exuberant passion as well as having three alternating vocalists who each supply a distinct flavoring. Drummer Drew Simon croons in an unadulterated workman style, recalling the forgotten, rustic vocalists who paid their dues without recognition.

- Dan Willging

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by Herman Fuselier

Some people worry about bird flu and if enough vaccine will be around when the epidemic hits. The Weather Channel is concerned that more killer hurricanes will strike in its always-on show of impending doom.

But the Pine Leaf Boys of Lafayette, Louisiana, have more serious concerns. The Boys want to rid the world of what they call "faux Cajun bands" ... characters whose music is more Lawrence Welk than Lawrence Walker. Their exaggerated accents and mispronunciations would make made-for-TV Cajun Justin Wilson blush.