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Ray Abshire Picks Up the Cajun Music Torch

April 20, 2015 by: Dan Willging

"I’ve been very fortunate,” Ray Abshire says modestly. “I’ve been able to swim the same river twice.” The river that the Cajun accordionist refers to is his five-decade music career, which is logically divided into two distinct phases separated by an 18-year hiatus. The first chapter was with such standard bearers as his coozan Nathan Abshire and the Balfa Brothers. His reemergence i...

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