Undying Love, Cajun Style

This one goes out to The DooWop of NOLA. Our DooWop of NOLA.

Give it up for the oncoming festival!

Amédé Ardoin cœur Joline, toujours et à jamais. . .

(Though a pioneering artist, Amede Ardoin is also a historical phantom. Few copies of his classic recordings remain, and this image is the only known photograph of him.)

"This coming week, New Orleans will welcome thousands of music fans to its banks with the annual Jazz & Cultural Heritage Festival. The city's signature sound started taking shape decades before the recorded era, but one of the first musicians to immortalize zydeco on wax was singer and accordionist Amede Ardoin."

Read + listen to the rest of the story + tunes here on NPR.