page_title: Lost Bayou Ramblers
section_title: Musical style
hierarchical_section_title: Lost Bayou Ramblers / Musical style
caption_attribution_description: English: Alan Lafleur and the Lost Bayou Ramblers playing at the Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette, Louisiana.
context_page_description: Lost Bayou Ramblers is a Cajun music band from Broussard, Arnaudville and New Orleans, Louisiana.
context_section_description: After Mammoth Waltz drops, critics will be hard-pressed to put the Lost Bayou Ramblers in any box.
  — Alison Fensterstock, The Times-Picayune (Aug 18, 2011)
  The band typically plays traditional Cajun music but draws stylistically from Western swing, rockabilly, and punk rock. They have remained a traditional Cajun band, reviving forgotten classics of the genre, singing almost entirely in Cajun French, and maintaining smooth, moderate tempos suitable for dancing two-steps and waltzes. Their high energy live shows include antics more common to rock or punk bands, such as fiddler Michot climbing atop the upright bass of LaFleur as both musicians continue to play or the sporting of hipster Mohawks and prominent tattoos.
caption: Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette, 2008
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