Amédé Ardoin and Dennis McGee, one a black Creole, the other a white Cajun, braved a nation intent on segregation to perform and record together openly. During a New Orleans session for Brunswick in 1930, they laid down several tracks including one about a town north of Lafayette called "Valse Des Opelousas" (#559). It would be one of the last Cajun recording sessions before Cajun recording ceased due to the Depression.

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