OK, this is going to be the craziest explanation
you’ll probably hear.

Sure, I love the iambic pulsing dance rhythms, the
heart felt howling, the lyrics and harmonies and so
on.

But for me, Cajun music has a special imagery. The
melodies are almost a step backwards in
sophistication but to the point at which the music
makes thoughtful sense in a most fundamental way.

It has a sort of an innocent naïveté yet understated
profoundness.

Like watching an infant, sitting in the sun and
playing, being amused by humming an apparently
aimless melody.

On first impression, it seems endearingly simple and
meaningless .. until one realizes that it’s actually
perfect in a cosmic sense. No further embellishment
is required, the music has “arrived”.

Hope that makes sense?

--Big Nick

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