2Frères: La Route

2Frères: La Route

May 22, 2018

Who Needs Bright Lights? Listening Post 151. You can’t take the country out of the boy. And with 2Frères—Erik and Sonny Caouette—you can’t really take the boys out the country, either. When the retro folk-rockers dreamed big, they moved from Chapais, population 1,600...
2 Frères: Nous Autres

2 Frères: Nous Autres

December 5, 2016

Belle Epoque Listening Post 76. Erik and Sonny Caouette sing songs of love and social awareness that evoke, in the words of one reviewer, “the belle époque of the chansonniers”—an age of activism that animated Québec culture in the 1960s and 70s. Nous Autres (We...