Clifton Chenier Shown here. - I tried to pick a range of styles for this week’s program within the two genres of Cajun music and Zydeco. And in doing so was unable to resist throwing in a few New Orleans classics that fit neither of those descriptives. What’s a program on the sounds of Louisiana without Professor Longhair going to the mardi gras, yet another version of (Laissez le…) Bon Ton Roulay (“Let the Good Times Roll”) here by Clarence Garlow, or Sugar Boy Crawford singing his hit Jock-a-Mo (followed by “fee non nay” which at least one Google music pundit tells me is “Chokma Finha – Ane” (a mixture of half Native American, half Creole) “It's a very good year!”) The French heard throughout is a distinctive archaic dialect found in southern Louisiana and would confuse the average Parisian stumbling through the French Quarter, especially after a round of sazeracs or Vieux Carrés. Regardless, the music reveals a party attitude that doesn’t quit. Whether Zydeco, coming out of the ...