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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 …

Dennis McGee was among Cajun music’s most influential fiddlers. Although he just recorded for a short five years (1929 to 1934), McGee continued to be an motivation for Cajun music artists through his Acadienne event shows and his huge repertoire, including hundreds of older Cajun tunes. McGee’s 1st fiddle was …

There were better-known figures than Jo-El Sonnier inside the Cajun music tradition of Louisiana. And there were Louisiana musicians, such as for example Doug Kershaw, who’ve taken simplified variations of Cajun music to Nashville and experienced better success in the wonderful world of nation music. But no-one has transferred as …

This well-loved Cajun music figure lost his life within a highway accident when his career was at his peak. The decaying and occasionally never even constructed Louisiana highway program was at fault, as oftentimes. Iry LeJune and his traveler J.B. Fusilier had been forced to improve a set without tugging …