Tricentennial Music Moment: Clifton Chenier from huge big girl dance on punjabi song Watch Video
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Description: In 1954, a talent scout heard a new sound in Southwest Louisiana -- and it was different. Creole music mixed with R&B and rock’n’roll -- this was not traditional Cajun music.nnThe sound was made by a young man with an accordion -- a singer from Opelousas who called himself
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