Yup, to me it aint hardly cajun music without the sound of beer cans opening, yelling kids, and closing porch doors in the background. Those are accompanying sounds.

Kind of reminds me of some of those R&B recordings were they brought people into the studio to make the recording sound like a party was going on.
(Because there was! :)

You know there musta been jugs upon jugs of bali hi wine an a whole lotta mojo going on. Too funny!

Yes - I have always had best luck when recording live in the studio.

My first efforts at recording were VERY difficult and stressful, because you are searching for perfection, and inevitably you mess up playing something that you have played perfectly live a hundred times.

Then I switched to the mode of having the band in the studio, and just doing our live thing the way we always do. It is so much easier. Most of the time you can get a tune down in a single take, with maybe an occasional false start.

Of course, you have to have enough live gigs under your belt for this to work. But if you have it together live, you can take that into the studio and do it the same way (more or less).

-David