Lawrence Walker & His Wandering Aces

b. 1 Sept 1907, Scott, Louisiana, USA, d. 15 August 1968, Rayne, Louisiana, USA. Walker’s dad was a well-known regional fiddler as well as the youngster took an early on curiosity about music, selecting the accordion as his device. The family transferred to Orange, Tx, where he and his sibling, Elton Walker, a fiddle participant, formed a music group, the Walker Brothers. This is in the first 20s plus they shortly built an area following because of their mixture of Cajun and hillbilly music. They produced their first documenting for Bluebird Information in 1929, placing down ‘La Break down La Louisiane’ and ‘La Vie Malheureuse’. In the middle-30s the music group won awards and more supporters at the Country wide Folk Celebration in Dallas, Tx. By this time around, Walker had turn into a extremely accomplished accordion participant, on the par using the better-known Nathan Abshire. Despite his reputation, Walker cannot earn a living along with his music and proved helpful mainly being a grain farmer. For some time, the accordion dropped out of favour as musical likes transformed and Walker’s supplementary career being a musician dropped even further. With time, though, the essential role from the device in the genuine Cajun audio became obvious and in the years following end of Globe Battle II, Walker’s profession had taken an upswing and he once again recorded successfully. A few of his recordings had been released by offshoots of main labels, such as for example Bluebird and Brunswick Information, but most had been trim for the expert independents that proliferated in your community where he proved helpful, including Vee Pee, Jin, Swallow, La Louisianne and Khoury’s, the second option managed in the middle-50s by Lake Charles business owner George Khoury. Walker’s group, the Wandering Aces, contained in its rates Lionel LeLeux, the mentioned fiddler. Among the tunes Walker documented are ‘Chère Alice’, ‘Reno Waltz’ and ‘Yeaux Noir’. The majority of his repertoire was created by his personal compositions, which not only match snugly in to the Cajun custom, but over time have grown to be an integral part of it.