![]() Here’s an example of Swamp Pop–Doug Sahm playing “ Wasted Days & Wasted Nights” by Freddie Fender. (Rooting around on YouTube isn’t a bad day to spend Christmas morning. Plus international styles–like Tango & (of course) Parisian Musette. It’s free & features regional styles like Polka, Cajun, Creole, Zydeco & Conjunto. ![]() Next fall I *will *make it to the International Accordion Festival in San Antonio. (Was the first use of “zydeco” to describe this hybrid music found on a record by Lightnin’ Hopkins–the Houston bluesman who was cousin by marriage to Clifton Chenier? Back to the Annals of Texas Music Doug Sahm would have known.) (And a Cajun made the first frottoir–as collected by the Smithsonian!) Mr Chenier could even get us hippies off our asses & dancing when he played music like this. So the sound evolved along the route from Lafayette to Houston. Clifton Chenier (who lived here for years) added R&B sounds to the backyard lala music–just the thing for the big city clubs. (Their white neighbors played Cajun Music listen to The Balfa Brothers.) When Creoles moved to Big Houston to find work, the music evolved. ![]() ![]() Here’s Canray Fontenot & Bois Sec Ardoin. It sprang from the Creole music of Louisiana’s rural blacks. Zydeco might qualify as “urban folklore”–as beautifully explained in a previous post. Zydeco is the best French Accordion music.
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