Re: What happened to the "Real Cajuns" thread

[felix]

^ Hmmm

Edith sounds too much like a French school-marm type folkie to me. The pirogues on the bayous have no place in this. Ain't no gumbo and suchlike other Louisian-i-ay stuff there. This is a million miles from Lake Charles, bebe. Innit.

EDIT: but I see she IS a New Brunswick Acadian. So ... strictly speaking ... erm ... yes and no.

EDIT 2: as for the first post, lovely stuff, including Mr Horton. Cleoma and Joe on this evidence set the pattern for cajun music up to the prsent day.

(Doug's wikiography relates that he didn't learn English 'til he was eight ... his first gig was at a local bar, the Bucket of Blood ...