Aldus Roger & Friends

Aldus Roger was one of the most influential Cajun performers during the era when the musical genre was little known outside of the French Triangle in southwest Louisiana. The leader and frontman of the Lafayette Playboys Rogers reached his largest audience, in the 1950s and '60s, as host of a Saturday afternoon show on Lafayette's KLFY Channel 10. Many of his songs, including "Louisiana Waltz," "Perrodin Two-Step," and "Johnnie Can't Dance" have become Cajun classics. The son and cousin of accordion players, Roger began playing the squeezebox at the age of ten. He performed hi...