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Thursday, May 30, 2024

"La Danse Carre" - Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge

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Music associated with French and American dance forms influenced much of early Cajun social life in the 1920s.  From their Anglo-America...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

"La Fille A Oncle Elair" - Joe Falcon & Cleoma Breaux

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The early surge of musical creativity carried over into a new period as Cajun performers throughout the 1930s, adapted tunes they heard on t...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

"Blues de Basille" - Amede Ardoin & Dennis McGee

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With songs like "Two Step de Eunice" and "Blues De Basille," (#531) accordionist  Amede Ardoin , helped by his fiddl...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

"Je Te Recontrai De La Broulier" - Leo Soileau & Moise Robin

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I Had Met You In The Fog!  Fiddler Leo Soileau was exposed to music at an early age. His father was an amateur fiddler who was very adept...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

"Old Time Waltz" - Texas Melody Boys

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Robert William "Pee Wee" Pitre was one of the single session Cajun recording artist of the early 1950s.  A native of Kinder, Loui...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

"Chinaball Special" - Veteran Playboys

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Hailing form the same Pointe Noire area west of Church Point that produced the remarkable Lejeune clan of singers and musicians, Alphée Berg...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

"Grand Mamou" - Nathan Abshire

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While he mirrored the midcentury infatuation with country-flavored honky-tonk music—fiddle-driven and slide-guitar-embellished— Nathan Abshi...