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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 …