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January 14, 2010 - 1:06 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Mongo BL Santamaria
2010-01-16 15:25:07

Zydeco it be a whole class of music –like Blues or Jazz. It used to be called just “Cajun music” (“kay-JAHN moo-ZEEK” the real Frenchies pronounced it) but somewhere back in the late 70s or early 80s we started hearing that word. It’s as hard to write about music as it to dance about architecture, but if it’s uptempo country with accordian and fiddle and lots of long wailin’ –and from sout loozyana –it MAY be Zydeco!