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By the mid- to late 1930s a new wave made its way into Cajun music with a string band sound influenced by country and Western Swing music coming in from the influx of Texans, etc. Early adopters represented here include Dudley and James Fawvor, J. You can hear a great version of this tune on the Varise Conner cd mentioned up above. Fuselier contributed some of the standards of the Cajun music repertoire. Also, Miller' s Merrymakers were led by a guitarist named Beethoven Miller and another guitarist named Preston Manuel.You are Little and You are Cute is of course the well-loved T'es Petite et T'es Mignonne. He was the first to record Chere Tout Toute under that title, though Angelas Le Jeune also uses the tune in one of his recordings. Fuselier accompanying Iry Le Jeune home from a dance when the two had a flat tire and pulled off the road to fix it. Manuel is featured on this Web site with the KEUN Mamou Hour Cajun Band and also appears with Ambrose Thibodeaux. The great fiddler Leo Soileau along with Maius (Mayeus?
And the Library of Congress had a mandate to go everywhere and record the story of the music people made when it looked to some like the world was going to end in the Great Depression, dust storms at home, and a world war brewing abroad!Lomax made a field trip to southwest Louisiana in 1934, where he recorded Wayne Perry.He also recorded Edier Segura's playful tune, Joe Feraille, sung with a fiddle accompaniment, c'est tout!); and Chere Yeux Noirs, not to be confused with 'Tit Yeux Noirs by Lawrence Walker.Guidry Brothers do La Valse du Mariage (also reprised by Les Freres Michot! Leroy "Happy Fats" Le Blanc of the Rayne community led a little string band called the Rayne Bo Ramblers through Les Filles de St.