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1920s Cajun musician Roy Gonzales was a guitarist and vocalist from Lafayette, Louisiana. Gonzales’ repertoire included performing Jimmie Rodgers’ music in French. Gonzales followed John Bertrand in the studio room in 1929, but documented only two music under his name, including his edition of Rodgers’, “LOOKING FORWARD TO A Teach.”

Oran “Doc” Guidry used the fiddle when he was 12 years of age. He was self-taught and within a year or two the teenager gained a spot within an outfit referred to as the Joe Fabacher Music group. He afterwards spent a year or two as an associate from the …

The person whose name is a celebration alone found the world’s most portable instrument, the harmonica, at age 11 and was turning heads along with his music within times. Nonetheless it was his capability on one from the world’s least convenient to carry tools, the drums, that retains him employed …

Harry Simoneaux was a saxophonist in the Riff Raffs, a Lafayette, LA group that played New Orleans-styled rock and roll and R&B in the past due 1950s and early 1960s. Many of the music artists in the group documented as solo performers for the Memory label, including Simoneaux, vocalist Bobby …

Masters from the rural zydeco audio, the Lawtell Playboys stood right out of the crowd within their innovative usage of violin, drums and electric powered instrumentation; unlike nearly all their peers, in addition they relied within the one-row, switch accordion to create alive their traditional Cajun tracks. The group’s lengthy …