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A brief history… When speaking of these two Louisiana artists, one needs to know that music was always their first career choice. Warren (aka Warren Schexnayder) began his career at the age of 12, and Willie Tee (aka Wilven Trahan) at the age of 13. Although Willie was aware of Warren Storm, the two had …
A brief history… Warren Storm (real name Warren Schexnider) was born on February 18, 1937, in Abbeville. The son of a Cajun band drummer, Storm played music as a child with Cajun-country group Larry Brasso and the Rhythmaires. In the mid-1950s he switched to rhythm and blues music, helping to pioneer the regional “swamp pop” …
A brief history… Warren Storm (real name Warren Schexnider) was born on February 18, 1937, in Abbeville. The son of a Cajun band drummer, Storm played music as a child with Cajun-country group Larry Brasso and the Rhythmaires. In the mid-1950s he switched to rhythm and blues music, helping to pioneer the regional “swamp pop” …
A brief history… In 1986, Joe Warren Cormier appeared on the Cajun radio scene with “Tit Bec Do,” a song he had written and recorded with some of his musician friends. The recording was then picked up by Swallow Records and the song has since become a classic Cajun hit, having been recorded by both …
A brief history… Vin Bruce is said to be the first musician to cut Cajun music on a major record label, which he did before World War II, and the first musician to record Cajun music in Nashville. He was born in Cut Off, Louisiana on April 25, 1932. His father, Levy Bruce, played fiddle at …
A brief history… Tommy McLain was born on March 15, 1940, in Jonesville (in central Louisiana). Although not a Cajun, he contributed greatly to the formation of the swamp pop musical genre, recording classics like “Try To Find Another Man” (1965, a duet with Cajun swamp popper Clint West), “Sweet Dreams” (1966), and “Before I …
