Rick, perhaps you can settle a question I have about the accordion. A number of Texas bands that I like will use the accordion in some of their songs. Is this an influence from Cajun/Creole music, or is it from the Germans who settled parts of Texas?
Both, but much more German/polka influenced. The TexMex polkas are incredible, the Flaco Jimenez/Esteban Jordan stuff, incredible. You don't hear polkas much (or at all) in Cajun/Creole. Manic two-steps, yes, but not strict polkas. That shit's German.
Thanks, for that. I imagined it was more German. The band at my wedding played hard country (Paycheck, Coe, Haggard, etc.) and polkas. The perfect combination.
God saw fit to "plaque" (Cajun: plah-kay, put) me in a place with off-the-charts culture. And it still has a heartbeat!
Rick, perhaps you can settle a question I have about the accordion. A number of Texas bands that I like will use the accordion in some of their songs. Is this an influence from Cajun/Creole music, or is it from the Germans who settled parts of Texas?
Both, but much more German/polka influenced. The TexMex polkas are incredible, the Flaco Jimenez/Esteban Jordan stuff, incredible. You don't hear polkas much (or at all) in Cajun/Creole. Manic two-steps, yes, but not strict polkas. That shit's German.
Thanks, for that. I imagined it was more German. The band at my wedding played hard country (Paycheck, Coe, Haggard, etc.) and polkas. The perfect combination.