Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin

Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin

Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin

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Lake Charles Two-Step
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Les Blues Du Voyageur
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La Robe Barree
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La Valse De Grand Prairie

Albums

  • Allons Danser

    Jan 1998 • 17 songs

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Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin

Biography

Singer and accordionist Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin was a crucial link to the musique Creole traditions of a bygone era -- his music kept alive the Cajun "la la" music which developed in the African-American communities of his native southwestern Louisiana, and which was a clear antecedent of the contemporary zydeco sound. Born in rural Duralde in either 1914 or 1916, Ardoin was tagged with his nickname -- translating as "Dry Wood" -- because as a child he was always the first one in the fields to seek shelter during a rainstorm; born and raised as a sharecropper, farming remai...
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