Tag Archives: D.L. Menard

Floyd Soileau (pronounced swallow) provides played an important function in the advancement of Louisiana’s music. As who owns the Swallow, Jin, Maison de Spirit, and Kom-a-day record brands, Soileau continues to be responsible for a lot more than 300 singles and 200 albums by such performers as the Balfa Brothers, …

The “C” means Cajun, and even though a lot of Jimmy C. Newman’s early nation material has small swamp stylings, he created a fusion on many 1960s albums that set up him being a forerunner in Cajun-country music. Newman was created on August 27, 1927, in Great Stage, LA; as …

Created in 1944, Santiago Jimenez Jr. was a vocalist and accordionist whose dad made a substantial contribution towards the conjunto instrumental design. Conjunto, the accordion-based sociable music of Mexico and South Tx, was a method rooted in custom. While his sibling Flaco Jimenez combined its audio with modern affects like …

Affectionately referred to as “the Cajun Hank Williams,” D.L. Menard (blessed Doris Leon Menard) just met Williams onetime on the Teche Membership in New Iberia in 1951. However in the almost five years since, William’s melancholy nation songs have stayed his major impact. Most widely known for his strike “La …

Accordion participant Paul Daigle recorded a small number of albums through the past due ’80s with among the leading Cajun clothes of your day, Cajun Silver. He shifted about a 10 years later to execute and record with the original Cajun music group Savoir Faire. Daigle and tempo guitarist Robert …