RECORDINGS

FIDDLE

"Louis Boudreault: Old Time Fiddler of Chicoutimi, Quebec"
Tremendous solo fiddling--just fiddle and feet--in a style which I imagine is very close to that of Cruzatte.
"Old Native & Metis Fiddling in Western Manitoba" --
"Plains Chippewa/Metis Music From Turtle Mountain"
Another wonderful, authentic recording. Also includes Metis songs.
"Y'était temps!"--Yvon Mimeault, Quebecois fiddler

SONGS -- English

"Colonial & Revolution Songs"--Keith and Rusty McNeil
The best compilation of early American songs I've found.
"Animal Folk Songs for Children"--Mike, Penny, Barbara and Peggy Seeger
"American Folk Songs for Children"--Mike and Peggy Seeger

SONGS--French

"L'charbonniers de l'enfer"
Magnificent a capella chansons à répondre (response songs). I can't vouch for the temporal authenticity of all the songs, but if any recording captures the feeling of a bunch of guys belting out songs as the drag themselves up a river, or as they dance about a campfire after a wee dram, this is it. Okay, so the harmonies of the Corps of Discovery may not have been this tight, but we'll never know for sure.
"C'est dans cette maison de fête"
"Songs of the Voyageurs"
A choir sings these songs, so the recording definitely doesn't sound like the expedition. But the songs are all good, old voyageur songs.
"Hearts of Gold"--William Pint & Felicia Dale
Wonderful recording overall, but "C'est L'Aviron" only Cruzatte-oriented one.
"Heritage Familial"--Daniel Perron
This recording is *fantastic*, though some of the songs are too new, and the instrumentation is all wrong.
"C'est La Façon..."--Hommage aux Ainés

COMBINATION

"Mademoiselle, Voulez-Vous Danser? Franco-American Music from the New England Borderlands"
Wonderful recording with a wide range of stuff. Great site, too: has lyrics to all the songs.

CONCEPT ALBUMS

"Lewis and Clark"--The Trail Band
The best of these sorts of albums thus far. Wonderful song about Patrick Gass.
"Lewis and Clark: Songs of the Journey" -- Kindra Ankney wrote these delightful songs and Bobby Horton performs them. There's a beautifully illustrated companion book to go along with the recording.
"Lewis and Clark: Sounds of Discovery"
This one is the most ambitious attempt to put together a survey of the music of the expedition. I highly recommend this one, though the fiddling is a bit too clean and un-dancelike to be authentic (in my opinion, of course--not having heard Monsieur Cruzatte himself).
"Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery"
Soundtrack to the PBS documentary about the expedition.
Music is not necessarily authentic, but it's beautiful nonetheless.
"From the Journals of Lewis and Clark"--Daniel Bukvich
Classical work commissioned to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Great Falls Symphony (Great Falls, Montana). On CD.