Borrowing from other genres has always been the name of the game in Cajun music. Cultural heroine Cleoma Breaux Falcon translated jazz and pop standards into French and made them her own; the Hackberry Ramblers dropped the accordion to mimic the Anglo string bands of the day. Johnny Sonnier transformed the country hit “George Jones on the Juke Box” into “Paul Daigle Sur Le Juke Box” to pay homage to the venerable accordionist.

Decades later, along comes Jamie Bergeron & the Kickin’ Cajuns and more rules and myths are shattered. As evidenced by their fourth album, Bergeron never stays in one genre too long but flips furiously between trad Cajun, rough-edged zydeco, dreamy swamp pop, today’s new country and rollicking rock ’n’ roll. All this bouncing around could be a recipe for disaster, but the Kickin’ Cajuns pull it off with remarkably tight playing and clicking chemistry. A few arrangements are surprisingly novel such as “Bring My Baby Back,” which mixes zydeco and fervent hand-clapping gospel, as well as Beau Jocque’s “Pop That Coochie,” which is virtually unrecognizable with its funk strutting and falsetto yelping.

Bergeron keeps the fun meter pegged into the red, especially given the comical “My Momma Is a Truck Drivin’ Man,” which sports the lines “She smokes a big cigar / and drinks diesel from a fruit jar.” While it’s another round of party madness as forecasted by the opening title track, the disc’s monster hit is, ironically, the belly-rubbing ballad “One More Try” with its easily identifiable theme of pleading for a second chance in a shaky relationship. With Bergeron’s Cajun country crooning and a familiar South Louisiana feel, the 1991 Timmy T. million seller is a much better regional fit, evoking swooning memories of Wayne Toups’ “Take My Hand.” Still, one could argue if it would have made a better closer than the disc’s second track, which temporarily derails the album’s sense of celebration. Track placement aside, Bergeron strikes pay dirt once again.