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Carrier has made guest appearances on albums by Tab Benoit – Live: Swampland Jam, Doug Kershaw – Cajun Sweet Home Louisiana, Calvin Owens – Stop Lying in My Face and Jimmy Thackery – Switching Gears. Carrier's 2010 release Zydeco Junkie won the Grammy in the category Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album. [2]
Paul Alton Senegal was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. According to researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc, the spelling "Sinegal" rather than "Senegal" was the result of a passport error, which he never corrected. Senegal was nicknamed "Little Buck" (for buckwheat) or "Lil' Buck" because of his short stature. [3]
Fernest Arceneaux (August 27, 1940 – September 4, 2008) [1] was a French-speaking Creole Zydeco accordionist and singer from Louisiana. He was known as "The New Prince of Accordion" for his virtuosity.
Jeffery Broussard (born March 10, 1967) is an American zydeco musician.. Broussard was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, to parents Ethel and Delton Broussard.He had five brothers and sisters, and he was the youngest child.
While its repertoire includes hundreds of traditional Cajun, Creole and zydeco songs, BeauSoleil has also pushed past constraints of purely traditional instrumentation, rhythm, and lyrics of Louisiana folk music, incorporating elements of rock and roll, jazz, blues, calypso, and other genres in original compositions and reworkings of ...
Joe Hall was an American accordionist and vocalist who performed Creole la la, Cajun, and zydeco music. He passed away on November 21, 2024. Hall was born in Eunice, Louisiana, on December 15, 1971. [1]
Clide Vernon "Sonny" Landreth (born February 1, 1951) [1] is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, and settled in Lafayette, Louisiana. [2] [3] He lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
C. C. Adcock (born Charles Clinton Adcock, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and blues rock musician, noted for his cajun, zydeco, electric blues and swamp pop-influenced sound and for his efforts to preserve and promote swamp pop music.