They come by the truckloads, they come from miles around. When it’s Wednesday night, D.I.’s Cajun Restaurant near Basile is the hot spot if you want to jam on a Cajun tune or two. For the past eight years, Acadiana Sounds’ Fred Charlie has hosted weekly jam sessions and this is the second disc capturing the extended family feeling of amateur musicians who have been playing together for some time. Since there are a wide variety of abilities and ages (14 to 83), it’s not meant to be a polished recording—though many of the groupings could pass for honky-tonk weekend warriors and hold their own at a dance. The jammers do heartfelt renditions of “Jolie Blonde” and “Tee Yeaux Noir” as well as hot-steppin’ takes of “Evangeline Special,” “Amedee Two-Step” and “Creole Stomp.” On “Le Chanson de Mardi Gras,” the horse clip-clopping sound reminds many older Cajuns of the Nathan Abshire waxing from the ’50s. Other tracks aren’t always perfect but relatively speaking, they don’t have to be. You see, what this particular recording symbolizes, nonprofessionals embracing their cultural music for the love of it—and that’s what can’t be beat. The tradition lives on.