Roscoe Chenier - Doing Alright Again (1996)

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The best kept secret of the Cheniers

How can a small region like South Louisiana produce so many renowned musicians is a mystery. This puzzling phenomenon also concerns other regions like the Mississippi Delta or, farther, a little island named Jamaica (let's not even talk about their athletes).

Many Louisiana family clans take pride in several generations of famous artists. Most of those families (Creole or Cajun) can trace their ancestry way back in the 17th or 18th century, before the “Louisiana purchase” (1803) and bear French names : Arceneaux, Ardoin, Balfa, Fontenot, Broussard, Chavis, Frank, Carrier, Delafosse, Lejeune, Cormier, Ledet, Savoy, Williams, Rubin (aka Dopsie), Neville or… Chenier.