Early Cajun Music: "La Vie De Campagne" - The Arcadians
The Arcadians would be another Cajun-influenced country band recorded on an obscure label called Arcadia Records (not to be confused with Richard Raichelson's label with the same name). The label focused on country, Cajun, blues, jazz and rockabilly around the New Orleans area and only ran for a short time between 1956 and 1959. However, in that time frame, they would record Joe Gaines, Earl Williams, and a "story telling Cajun" named Louis Marion Marcotte, Jr. '