Louis Michot, a fiddler, songwriter and lead vocalist for two-time Grammy winners Lost Bayou Ramblers, has announced a second solo album, Seauxleaux. It was recorded in a single live session at Dockside Studio in Maurice, Louisiana by Tony Daigle on December 2, 2024.

This session was filmed and edited by Olivia Perillo, with additional camerawork by Rush Jagoe for video release. The album  is being released by Nouveau Electric Records on May 30, 2025, and on digital download and streaming platforms.

Seauxleaux is a collection of songs that tells Michot’s stories and those of the Louisiana French experience. The repertoire on this album comes mostly from the traditional Cajun canon, representing a diverse range of work by Louisiana songwriters. Michot performs them using an unusually full and ambitious sonic palette with separate tracks assigned to vocal, vocal space-echo delay, foot stomp, foot stomp space-echo delay, and fiddle or guitar. There was no overdubbing. Each tune is presented exactly as captured in real time, live in the studio

The album’s centerpiece, “Meche Perdu,” written by Tommy Michot, is a valse à deux-temps (fast waltz) that “serves as an ode to the Louisiana marshes.” Its lyrics “mourn the erosion of these landscapes which once served as Louisiana French culture’s bastion insulating  it from Americanization,” and now asks the question: “How long before our culture follows the marshes?”

Louis Michot is best known as the fiddle player and lead-singer for the Lost Bayou Ramblers, but his passion for Louisiana French and local folklore, and sustainability are what fuels his career as a musician. With two Grammy awards, 6 film scores and over 20 LPs under his belt, his music career continues to push the boundaries of the Louisiana French music traditions.