Early Cajun Kings (Let Me Play This For You)

Read about these rare Cajun recordings, just reissued.

"Let Me Play This For You: Rare Cajun Music, 1929–1930, assembled by Ron Brown and Christopher King (two of the world’s foremost collectors of Cajun 78s) for the Tompkins Square label, is essential for anyone who appreciates French-speaking Louisiana’s old-time songs and tunes".

Listen "I am happy now" (1929)

Recorded by Victor in New Orleans, 1929; released c. 1941 on Bluebird. Reissued in 2013 on Tompkins Square's "Let Me Play This For You: Rare Cajun Recordings, 1929-1930." 

Record transfer / digital remastering by Christopher King.

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