Jim Soileau: Rapper?

Mister Jim Soileau LIVE (center) layin down the beats from the old Cajun Smokehouse.

   

                         In this rare clip from the Tasse de Cafe' Radio Program, Mr. Jim Soileau breaks into spontaneous rap about the title of an old conte told to him by his mamere. Although difficult to decipher this archaic Evangeline Parish flow, I think it goes: 

"Ca c'est la danse qu'est longue, et ça c'est l'essence qui brûle." 

 (That's that dance that's long and that's the gas (oil?) that burns.) Allons donc, Mister Jim!

Le Remède de la Tasse

  
Herbal Remedies and other things I learned on the Tasse Cafe Radio Program Friday:

1. Cod liver oil is la crème de fouin(?) morue

2. Put old time cane syrup and castor oil in the ear sealed with cotton for earache (also, heat up table salt and put it in a sock, place on ear, or, blow smoke in ear, seal.)

2b. Vapo-rub is used by the Creoles of Evangeline Parish as a cure-all. Put "Vic-salve" on a cotton ball in the ear for earache.

3. On est après s'amuser avec les "uremède". We are having a good time with remedies. (In Evangeline Parish, the first syllable is sometimes inverse.)

4. Castor oil is l'huile à purger.

5. Camphor (du camphre) is put in a pint bottle with water and left to develop and then "served" with a little sugar and water in a glass and it treated "inflamation" fever, and any ole ailment for old and young. I think the camphor she spoke of was a part (root or bark) of the camphor tree (?)

6.  Robins like to roost in the les arbres camphré and eat the camphor berries.

7. For a bad cold or asthma take a spoonful of sugar and kerosene. Warning: Do not do this while smoking.

8. Mash an aspirin, mix with "Vic-Salve" and honey in a coffee cup, heat by the pilot light. Every time you cough, pop you a spoonful.

9. For sore throat, beat a raw egg yolk with 1/2 cup of sugar until is becomes white. Eat dat.

10.  Old Indian Remedy? Take the skin of a gizzard, wash it and dry it. Doc Veillion's grandmother used to keep them in a tin on top of her garde-manger. Make a tea with the peau de gésier (gi-gi?) for nausea during virus or pregnancy.

11. Mix whiskey, aspirin, Vic-Salve and honey, boil it on the stove. Make the kids drink it!

12. For tonsillitis, go to the woods and find a red oak tree. Take the root or the bark, make a tea with it and gargle with it for seven days. 

13. Toothache tree- boil the bark, apply to itch from poison ivy. Apply bark directly to tooth, or make an infusion to kill tooth pain.

14. Mamou tea. Take 9 (I have heard 3, 5, 7, or 9- odd number) red Mamou seeds. Smash them good good and boil them. Mix the tea with honey, lemon and sometimes whiskey. Drink hot. This will break up chest congestion.   

15. For tallow bumps or infected sores, take ashes out of the fireplace, mix it with some Vic-Salve, heat it up, stick it in between two cloths. Apply to sore. It will draw the infection out. 

16. Wasp stings- apply spider webs or moistened tabacco to the sting. It will draw the poison out.  

17. C'est joli de voir comment on a bien enjoy ça. (It's pretty to see how we really enjoy that (talking about remedy))

Mamou seeds

 



 

The Rosary in French

In the early morning, the avant-jour,  KVPI has the rosary in French. The other day, a man called in to the Tasse Cafe Radio Program to thank them for playing the rosary in the early morning, because he had to drive from Alexandria to Lafayette for his cancer treatments, and on the way, he listens to the French Rosary. He said it brought him unimaginable peace, and reminded him of his family who prayed only in French in years past. He went on to say that he wants to see the French Rosary continued to be played/prayed on KVPI for generations to come, and that he wanted to see if he could sponsor it. He said that he was the owner of an old family company that gleans like, 85% of the ground pecans in Louisiana. That's big business. I forget the name of the company (Bruce Foods?), but the man was very generous and emphatic that he wanted to sponsor the Rosary in French, and how much it had helped him. 

 Prayers in French

Here is a clip of the rosary from KVPI in Evangeline Parish:

This morning, it was followed by "Listen to your Heart" by Roxette in reason #15724 that KVPI is awesome.