Issue Articles
Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement Award: Floyd Soileau
Can Cajun French music survive in a new millennium? Floyd Soileau of Ville Platte, who has recorded, produced and distributed the sound for 43 years, approaches the question with hopeful […]
Kisses From Geno Delafose
On a Friday night last October, all was right with the world. Geno Delafose and French Rockin’ Boogie, had just finished raising the roof off Slim’s Y-Ki-Ki, the legendary zydeco […]
Trahan’s Music Is For Everybody
In some people’s eyes, Horace Trahan is the Great White Hope Gone Bad. At Trahan’s debut, Cajun music fans had never heard 50-year-old classics sung with such power and grace. […]
Horace Trahan and the Louisiana Express, Get on Board (Zydeco Hound Records)
Horace Trahan and the Louisiana Express
Opelousas: Zydeco Music Capital of the World
Sorry Travel Channel, uninformed tourists and zealous French Quarter merchants. Opelousas, Louisiana—not New Orleans—is the Zydeco Music Capital of the World. Opelousas, a city of 18,000 in St. Landry […]
Her Majesty Mona
Calling a queen stubborn and intimidating is like calling Hugh Hefner a connoisseur of breasts. Yet Mona “Zydeco Queen” Wilson has been crowned with those less than flattering labels. In […]
