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Accordionist Alphonse “Bois Sec” (“dried out timber”) Ardoin (b.1914) was raised idolizing his legendary uncle, Amadie Ardoin, seeing that did fiddler Canray Fontenot (b.1922). Ardoin And Fontenot started playing together within their youngsters, though these were unrecorded before ’70s. Their music can be a still-strong representation of the first Cajun/Creole …

Canray Fontenot was dubbed while the “last of the fantastic Creole and Cajun fiddlers” by Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Information Along with his primitive design of taking part in the fiddle, accented from the rhythmic stomping of his uncovered ft, Fontenot was among the last players from the pre-zydeco Creole …

Vocalist and accordionist Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin was an essential connect to the musique Creole customs of the bygone period — his music kept alive the Cajun “la la” music which developed in the African-American areas of his local southwestern Louisiana, and that was a definite antecedent from the modern …