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Early Cajun Music: "Along The River" - Lee Sonnier

Credited as the first person to bring back the accordion into Cajun music after the war, Lee Sonnier created some of the earliest post-war Cajun tunes on his father in law's Feature label. One of the tunes, "Along The River" (#1041), is a Cajun French cover of a Hank Williams tune called "On the Bank of the old Pontchartrain" and sung by Elwood Dupuis.

Read more: http://earlycajunmusic.blogspot.com/2016/01/along-river-lee-sonnier.html

Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6MvfdSVO8



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