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Early Cajun Music: "Jole Blonde" - Amidie Breaux

After making some of the first Cajun recordings in the late 1920s, Amidie Breaux (also spelled Amedie and Amedee) would return to the recording studio, after a 13 year absence, with a different group called The Acadian Aces for J.D Miller's Feature label. Legend has it that Breaux's sister, Cleoma, had written the lyrics to this old tune back in 1929 and with Amidie's brothers, they recorded the tune as "Ma Blonde Est Partie" for Okeh/Columbia.

Read more: http://earlycajunmusic.blogspot.com/2015/03/jole-blonde-amidie-breaux.html

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Re: Early Cajun Music: "Jole Blonde" - Amidie Breaux

That white boy had a lot of soul. His playing on some of those old recordings is incredible.



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