As past president and longtime supporter of the Cajun French Music Association, Ray Landry knows all about organizing the annual Le Cajun Awards and Festival. The CFMA honors some of Cajun music’s best and brightest with a Grammy-style awards show and festival Aug. 20-22 at Lafayette’s Blackham Coliseum.

But this year, instead of rolling out the red carpet, Landry is walking down it. The new Ray Landry and Friends CD, Mes Racines Cadien Sont Creux (My Cajun Roots Run Deep), is poised to be...