“I was never a zydeco guitar player,” explains Dennis Paul Williams, guitarist with Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas. “Back in the day, everybody was like, ‘You don’t sound like a zydeco guitar player. You sound like jazz and everything else.’ And I would tell people, ‘What is a zydeco guitar player? I am just being me.’”

“Just being me” has made Dennis Paul Williams one of the mos...