Big French Dance

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Rebirth of a Cajun and Zydeco Music Documentary Project - Get inside the world of Cajun and Zydeco music 1972-19741. Rex Champagne's StoreIn early September of 1972 my wife Fay and I, just out of college, arrived in our new hometown of Basile, Louisiana. With a lot of help from Dewey Balfa and his family, we moved into an old country house  on a thousand acre cattle and rice farm. Abandoned sharecroppers’ shacks were scattered about the property.The smokehouse became our darkroom. Rent was $25 bucks. Here's a jam session in our living room:2. Marc Savoy, Nathan Abshire, Rodney Balfa ...

Read More , Dewey BalfaThe goal was to produce a record of Louisiana music that would include photographs and articles about musicians who played the region's French music. For a few months after we arrived in rural southwest Louisiana, we surviv

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