grantpotterMar 19
"The one-row button #accordion is a humble instrument. It embraces its limitations. It can only play in one key. The note changes for each button if you push or you pull the bellows, so playing it feels like wrestling a little animal." #bandcamp https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/cajun-creole-accordion-music-guide
The Long, Joyous Tradition of Cajun and Creole Accordion Music

Lighting up both dancehalls and trail rides, the Louisiana tradition is rich and varied.

Bandcamp Daily
Show threadAccordionBruceMar 20

@grantpotter 🙏🏼
Great selection of #AccordionBandcamp recommendations in this Bandcamp Weekly feature on #Creole and #Cajun 🪗 music
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/cajun-creole-accordion-music-guide

I’ll be getting some of these artists to play on @accordionnoir radio including Marcella Simien ❤️‍🔥🪗
https://marcellaandherlovers.bandcamp.com/music

#accordion #zydeco #Louisiana #Texas #Memphis

The Long, Joyous Tradition of Cajun and Creole Accordion Music

Lighting up both dancehalls and trail rides, the Louisiana tradition is rich and varied.

Bandcamp Daily
Show threadAccordionBruce

@grantpotter @accordionnoir
🪗 didact: the author of that #bandcamp piece made a couple errors

One row diatonic #accordion can play in more than one key if the keys don’t require the full chromatic scale

The player does become limited beyond a few keys, and has to be more and more skilled to hide the “gaps” in keys the instrument wasn’t built to play easily in

#Louisiana’s French fiddle music lost a lot of tunes that couldn’t be played on one-row accordions

But not all but one key
#Cajun

Mar 20 at 1:01amToot!
Show threadAccordionBruceMar 20

@grantpotter @accordionnoir

@grantpotter @accordionnoir
🪗 didact 2:

And I think Boozoo Chavez was mostly known for playing three-row diatonic #accordion, not the one-row that became more popular with younger #Creole #zydeco players
https://antonesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hey-do-right

Hey Do Right, by Boozoo Chavis

14 track album

Antone's Records
Show threadAccordionBruceMar 20

@grantpotter @accordionnoir
Be interesting to know if it’s just availability, or cost or style?

Some of the nicest one-row so called #Cajun accordions have been custom built in #Louisiana over the years

Not so, larger three-rows, or fully chromatic piano #accordion like Clifton Chénier played that made it possible to mix in blues and R&B to create #zydeco

Early one-row 🪗 couldn’t play #blues easily so it got left out of most Black American music 🤷🏽

#Zydeco is the exception with backstory