“Femme L’a Dit,” a brilliant mix of Creole music, gypsy jazz and Dixieland horns, may be the most unusual tune ever heard on a Cajun album. Originally, Dr. Harry Oster recorded the tune first sung by Gilbert Martin, a Creole from New Roads, Louisiana, as part of his fieldwork in the 1950s. Decades later, Caffery discovered it as part of his work at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette Archives. “To me, it had a jazzy, swingy feel to it and it also had a different harmony. It was using a different scale than you hear in most Cajun music.”

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