Digney who...what...

I first heard the opening song of this CD on my favorite radio station 99.9 "The Rock" in Auburn, Alabama. I shot off an e-mail to Wild Man Steve to find out who the artist was and he replied "Digney Fignus". I figured he was having a laugh on me, but he was for real, so I started checking into Digney...uh, Mr. Fignus.

More about that later. First a little about the CD.

Digney refers to this recording as a "Cajun Opera". It is a story of Johnnie Boudreaux. It is about how a man "too good looking' for his own good" could live himself to death and still manage to laugh at his own funeral. It is a story about love, lust, voodoo, moonshine, gangsters, and cheatin' fools. Wrap that up in a natural disaster and you've got Johnnie's world, New Orleans 1927.

Now, Digney is from Boston. Not only that, but he was part of the 80's Punk scene with a band called the Spikes. He also was a winner of the MTV Basement Tapes contest and a Boston anthem contest.

So, how does a punk rocker from Boston create a "Cajun Opera"? Well, he met a drummer (Dave Mattacks - Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull) at the 2004 National Folk Festival in Bangor, Maine. Dave agreed to play drums on a few tunes Digney had written and the rest is history. How else could it have happened!

Regardless of how it happened and as odd as it sounds, it all worked out very well. This is a great CD with great liner notes as well! Digney and the boys have cooked up a great batch of Gumbo with this one!

Digney's website is www.digney.com

The tunes:
1) Boudreaux
2) Big Mama
3) Griftin' River Blues
4) Don't Wanna Be Your Fool
5) Gumbo
6) Fallin' For You
7) Both Ways
8) Trouble On The Levee
9) Gone Little Sister
10) Rednecks And Whiskey
11) Love You True
12) Let The Wheels Just Roll