Nathan Abshire

Nathan Abshire helped provide the blues and honky tonk to Cajun music and repopularized the accordion along with his recordings through the 1950s and ’60s, but nonetheless never were able to earn a living from his music. Given birth to in Gueyden, LA, on June 23, 1913, Abshire started playing professionally within the 1920s, and he 1st recorded in the first ’30s with Content Fat & His Rayne-Bo Ramblers. Abshire visited just work at the Basile, LA, city dump around that point, and he kept the job for some of his operating existence. His fortunes started looking shiny by 1936, nevertheless, once the Rayne-Bo Ramblers started support him on edges for Bluebird. After providing in World Battle II, Abshire slice “Pine Grove Blues” — his most well-known single and later on his signature track — for D.T. Information. He documented for Khoury/Lyric, Swallow, and Kajun through the 1950s and ’60s, in the mean time playing regional dances and showing up on sessions from the Balfa Brothers. A renewal appealing in Cajun and folk music through the ’70s offered Abshire an opportunity to play many festivals and schools and star within the 1975 PBS-TV Cajun documentary, MEMORIES Are Getting rid of Me. The name proved prophetic, nevertheless, as Abshire fought alcoholism during his last years. Many classes for Folkways and La Louisienne adopted in the past due ’70s, but he passed away on, may 13, 1981.