A lot of the older players I talk to have told me that in the old days they could almost always tell what town/parish an accordion player was from just by the way he played certain songs.

John

Now that I believe, John. Now, with everyone mobile, and with readily available cd's, I doubt there is that regional association anymore. But I could sure believe it for the old days, just like the language and food.

Don't ask me why but when I first heard Jim Petijean thought he must be from Eunice and Patrick O from Carencro LOL.

It's the way they play the songs, I think.
When you grow up in LA you hear and feel the sound/rhythm before you were born, when you grow up .....and for an "outlander" it's difficult to learn to play that way.
We "outlanders" try to play the music as Cajuns/Zydecos as possible and we all hope that Steve Riley should say, "that's a LA-musician"