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Louis Michot plays fiddle with Willie Durisseau. photo by Joseph Vidrine

‘Hey, Can You Play Us A Song?’: Louis Michot Connects the Past with the Present

September 29, 2021 by: Dan Willging

Fiddling frontman Louis Michot has made a career of excavating the hallowed foundation of Cajun-Creole music with his bands Lost Bayou Ramblers, Michot Melody Makers and Soul Creole and then applying his signature with progressive, sometimes cosmic finishing touches. Though Michot hasn’t time-traveled to meet his inspirational icons, the relatively recent emergence of 101-year-old Creole fiddler Willie Durisseau (1918-2019) allowed him to get another glimpse of ...

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