Amede Ardoin Mama I'll Be Long Gone 2cd

2cd
2011/1929-34
new
Ardoin's wheezing duets with fiddler Dennis McGee are the starting point for all things cajun/zydeco. Ardoin has a high tenor voice that ripples like a flag & hiccoughs on cue for punctuation. His vocal melodies are often remarkably similar to country blues tunes, but here they're wedded to a button accordion huffing away in the wrong key underneath. It's said that the style was developed for fiddles first and added accordions later. But without drums (which didn't travel well back when the Louisana swamps were being settled), players had to saw heavily to provide enough rhythm for house party dancing. The problem was tackled anew in the mid-1950s when zydeco king Clifton Chenier added a washboard to the traditional duet. Ardoin's entire output of 78s. Tracklisting: Madam Atchen, One Step Des Chameaux, Valse de Mon Vieux Village, Les Blues de Voyages, Taunt Aline, One Step D'Oberlin, Valse de Ballard, Aimez Moi Ce Soir, Amadie Two Step, Valse Brunette, Sunset, Blues de Basille, Valse Des Chantiers, Les Blues de Crowley, Valse de Gueydan, La Turtape De Saroied, Two Step de Eunice, Two Step de Prairie Solieau, Valse Des Opelousas, Le Midland Two Step, La Valse de Amites, Two Step de Mama, Valse a Alcee Poulard, Les Blues Prison, Si Dur D'etre Seul, La Valse a Austin Ardoin, Tortope D'Osrun, Tout Que Rest C'est Mon Linge, La Valse a Thomas, Tostape de Jennings, Oberlin, Two Step D'Elton, Valse de la Point D'Eglise, La Valse Ah Abe.