Interesting story about Beausoleil and its leader Michael Doucet — without a doubt the most important Cajun musician of the last 20 years and a cornerstone of the Cajun cultural revival of the 1980s and 1990s. (The band’s got a new album out this month.)
He says Cajun music needs to be more about death and draws connections between Cajuns and the Roma — an interesting comparison I hadn’t thought of before.