№ 3 [Les sabots d'Hélène]
by Georges Brassens
- Type: Album
- Released: April 1955
- Label: Polydor
- Country: France
- Length: 8:39
- Community rating: 3.92/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Accompanying his own gruff, highly rhythmic vocal delivery with driving acoustic guitar, the iconic French poet-singer further cements his fiercely independent, anti-establishment persona. The tracks utilize simple, deeply effective folk melodies to deliver razor-sharp, often darkly humorous lyrical narratives that challenge societal hypocrisy and celebrate the marginalized. The brilliant, deeply authentic album solidified his standing as a towering literary figure in postwar European popular music.
Genres
Descriptors: acoustic, melodic, poverty, french, storytelling
Tracklist
Credits
- Nu Colours - primary artist