Édith Butler - L'Acadie S'Marie (2026) [Hi-Res]

L'Acadie s'marie is the third studio album by Acadian singer, folklorist and song collector Édith Butler, issued in 1974 on the Canadian arm of Columbia Records under catalogue number FS-90274. It is her second and final record for Columbia, following her major-label debut Avant d'être dépaysée (1973), and a pivotal release on which Butler firmly established herself not only as an interpreter of Acadia's oral tradition but as a songwriter in her own right.
The album reflects a decisive biographical shift: from 1973 onward Butler began composing her own material, most often in partnership with lyricist and future manager Lise Aubut. On L'Acadie s'marie this duo was joined by ethnographer Jean-Claude Dupont, who wrote the words to "Le mascaret," "Tous nos hommes" and the title track, and by composer Daniel Deschênes, who supplied the music for most of the original songs on the record. At the same time Butler retained her grounding in oral tradition: "Le dix d'avril" and "Dans l'Acadie" are credited as traditional pieces in her own arrangement, a direct extension of her academic background — a Master's degree in literature and traditional ethnography from Université Laval (1969) and years of fieldwork collecting Acadian folklore.
Stylistically the album is rooted in the French-language folk tradition of the Maritime provinces: acoustic guitars, restrained chamber-style arrangements and the primacy of voice and text characteristic of the boîtes à chansons aesthetic in which Butler had performed since the early 1960s. L'Acadie s'marie is also a programmatically Acadian statement: the title song became one of the unofficial anthems of the 1970s Acadian cultural revival, and together with "Avant d'être dépaysée," "Marie Caissie" and "Je vous aime, ma vie recommence" it consistently appears among Butler's signature songs in every biographical account. The historical weight of the record is underscored by the fact that in 1975, immediately following its release, Butler was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and, with Lise Aubut, founded Les Éditions de l'Arcadie and her own recording infrastructure (SPPS), to which she moved for her next album — leaving the major-label system behind for good.

Tracklist:
1-1 Édith Butler - Le mascaret [3:29]
1-2 Édith Butler - Le rêve [3:44]
1-3 Édith Butler - Tous nos hommes [3:11]
1-4 Édith Butler - La lande [3:10]
1-5 Édith Butler - Le dix d'avril [3:29]
1-6 Édith Butler - L'Acadie s'marie [2:32]
1-7 Édith Butler - Mais je m'en vais demain [2:59]
1-8 Édith Butler - Mon ami [3:18]
1-9 Édith Butler - Je t'ai retrouvé [3:00]
1-10 Édith Butler - Dans l'Acadie [2:53]
1-11 Édith Butler - Tu n'as pas besoin [4:25]
1-12 Édith Butler - Je voudrais être [3:09]