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Early Cajun Music: 2021
A unique window into the world of Cajun music between 1928 and 1965. Compiled histories from websites, books, news articles, liner notes, and interviews. Most come from my personal 78 collection. Al...
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Early Cajun Music: February 2021
See, I won't, I won't do that to my mom,
You're leaving me, to go away, dear,
You're going into the countryside, so far away from me,
Hey, you told me, my little everything,
Over there, not long a...
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Early Cajun Music: 2019
Et galeuse, cherie, j’t’amie quand même,
Ah, mais ouais, la belle, chérie, se pas la belle,
Ah, mais ouais, la belle, chérie,
Vous allez et laver.
T'es trop galeuse, cherie, pour faire ma femme
Ah,...
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Early Cajun Music: June 2019
Bear Family Records
Like most small companies, Bill could not afford much publicity and promotion and all his shipments went out C.O.D. which explains the relatively poor distribution of the label...
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Early Cajun Music: "Big Texas" - Julius "Papa Cairo" Lamperez
The story of "Big Texas" and "Jambalaya" has been covered before, however, it's history makes a good story. The first recording of thi...
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Early Cajun Music: December 2014
One of the later independent Cajun music recording engineers was Floyd Soileau. His early attempts at recording Cajun music started with two brief labels: VEE PEE and Big Mamou Records. Soileau's fi...