Aux Trois Baudets 1953

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In November 1953, when RTF recorded Georges Brassens at Les Trois Baudets, he had been performing publicly for less than two years. After a stint at Patachou's, who literally pushed him onto the stage in early 1952, Jacques Canetti hired him for his small theater where he quickly made a name for himself. There, he sang his first songs alone with his guitar: veritable little bombs in the strait-laced France of the time. One has to imagine him on stage, in his thirties, with a wrestler's build, bushy hair, a raven-black mustache, ill-at-ease, sweating and grumbling, particularly complaining about "this damn radio" that came to "bother him" with its equipment and demands! This recording, whose broadcast station and date are unknown, is the moving testimony to the birth of an immense artist whose poetic and musical genius is today unanimously recognized.