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CAJUN: Joe Bonsall / Your Picture / Cajun Jamboree 805 / c1965-6

Joe Bonsall was born June 3, 1921, near Lake Arthur, LA, some 25 miles northeast of Grand Chenier on the Gulf Coast, where his Pennsylvania-born great grandfather, had washed ashore from a shipwreck in the 1840s*. Joe grew up with Cajun music, playing the triangle, accordion, guitar, and violin. The family moved to Orange County, TX, on the western border of Louisiana, when Joe was a teenager, and he formed a group to play at local dances. Joe served in the Marines during WWII and formed the Orange Playboys in 1951, performing throughout East Texas and Louisiana over the next 30 years. His recording career began in 1961 and singles were issued on Crazy Cajun, Goldband, Swallow, Cajun Jamboree and Kajun. Joe was an original member of the Cajun French Music Hall of Fame and passed away on October 14, 1996, at the age of 75. [*Isaac Bonsall, born in Pennsylvania, had already lost his mother and was a teenager when his father was murdered. After spending a few years in Mississippi, the 22 year-old Isaac decided to go fight in the Texas-Mexican War. His troop ship, traveling from New Orleans to Galveston, sank off the coast of Louisiana, and he was one of four survivors. Reaching Grand Chenier safely, Isaac ultimately settled there, marrying Mary Sweeney, whose family had come to Southwest Louisiana from Maryland. Their six children were the start of the Louisiana branch of the Bonsall family tree.] [Your Picture, Joe Bonsall, Cajun Jamboree 805, recorded 1965/6, matrix LH-2613. Personnel: Joe Bonsall (vocal/accordion), Bobby Caswell (guitar), Russell Quebodeaux (fiddle), Wilson LeJeune (steel guitar), Clifton Newman (drums).] The flip side of this disk is The Chickens Don't Lay:    • CAJUN: Joe Bonsall / The Chickens Don't La...   Cajun playlist:    • Cajun