Good stuff. I left out the field recordings of Lomax and Oster. Good for a libary. I left out the Swallow sessions since that covers 60s and 70s. Of course, throughout that later time period, old masters that grew up during the early years, that never got a chance to record, such as Ambrose Thibodeaux and Varise Connor got their chance much later in life and are featured on later compilations. Good materials there.

To clarify, the Lawrence on Swallow is important mainly for the later Swallow recordings. His Khoury stuff sounds better on the Cajun Honky Tonk CDs.

Also, another I forgot to add to the list is:

26 - Cajun Dance Party: Fais Do-Do (Legacy/Columbia, 1994)
This contains alot of what was listed above, but has a few missing Breaux and Falcon materials to round off your collection including some Ardoin and Segura. Probably the best compilation of early Cajun at the time in 1994.

Neal can def talk about the later period compilations better than I can.

WF

"To clarify, the Lawrence on Swallow is important mainly for the later Swallow recordings. His Khoury stuff sounds better on the Cajun Honky Tonk CDs."

I agree. Cajun Honky Tonk 1 and 2 on Arhoolie have the better sounding Lawrence Walker Khoury sides. I think the La Louisianne lp has the best sounding version of Unlucky Waltz on La Louisianne LL-126, A Tribute to the Late, Great Lawrence Walker.

For accordion-minded fans, there's another good Arhoolie compilation, Pioneers of Cajun Accordion 1929-1936, subtitled Louisiana Cajun Music Vol. 9. Has Joe Falcon, Amede Ardoin, Breaux Brothers, Angelas LeJeune, Lawrence Walker, Nathan Abshire with the Happy Fats band, Delin Guillory, Bixy Guidry. OT 128