When you’re a warrior entrenched in the war of zydeco, it helps to have famous couzans who have their own recording studios. T-Broussard cut his last two discs at Keith Frank’s Soulwood Studios but this time, due to Frank’s insanely busy schedule, opted to have another cousin, Chris Ardoin, engineer his latest. Like all Ardoin projects, total involvement seems to be the key as the studio wizard also contributes hard-smacking beats (along with Stepper drummer Eddie Sinegal), lickety-split guitar fills, fat, oozing bass patterns, surfing organ rides and even lush, harmony vocals to yield a formidable-sounding record.

Yet none of Ardoin’s support would mean a thing if Broussard didn’t deliver a confident, commanding performance that rolls through an all-original mixture of infectious, boogey-down zydeco, Creole-sung waltzes, belly-rubbing R&B and even a swaying, swing number. One tune in particular, “Old-Time Waltz,” strolls at a leisurely pace, only to burst into a fervent, dance-enticing zydeco that’s a total but welcome surprise.

Besides mixing it up song-wise, Broussard alternates between several different diatonic and triple-row accordions so every track feels different than the last. Also contributing to this is producer Ardoin’s slight alteration of Broussard’s vocals through various studio techniques, like reverberation, so, at times, it feels like there are different vocalists at the mic. Though that’s something that’ll probably rankle the purists, the result is a varied sound that doesn’t succumb to the notion that all zydeco sounds alike.