Cajun & Zydeco is the raw and riotous music that fills the steamy night air of Louisiana from downtown New Orleans to the backwater bayou. Accordions and fiddles with a francophone edge meet drum kits, guitars and more on this handpicked Rough Guide.
Bonus CD: Chubby Carrier And The Bayou Swamp Band, Bayou Road. Chubby Carrier has zydeco music pumping through his veins the third generation of a musical lineage; The band's contagious and fun-loving style has won fans worldwide and earned them a 2011 Grammy award.