Five years ago, a teen-age accordionist named Horace Trahan was thought to be Iry LeJeune reincarnated. Cajun music lovers openly wept when Trahan played the classics with soul and grace rarely seen from such a young musician.

Now at 24, Trahan has spread his talented wings, or in this case, fingers, into zydeco. He admits the backlash has been ugly, sometimes racist.

But Trahan answers what he calls the “silly and messy people” on his new CD with “Don’t Worry About Horace.”

The rest is a party CD with a few off-key vocals and some jumping covers of Boozoo Chavis and John Delafose originals, like “You Talk About Your Baby,” “Zydeco Hee Haw,” “Find My Woman” and “One Hour Too Late.” Trahan hasn’t forgotten about his Cajun French roots with standards like Iry LeJeune’s “Big Road Waltz,” Dewey Balfa’s “Lanse Aux Paille Two Step” and the ever-popular “Eunice Two Step.”

The breakout hit is the CD’s shortest song, “High School Breakdown.” In the tradition of “Louie, Louie” and “Whoop! There It Is,” the breakdown is a silly gumbo of zydeco accordion, high school football cheers, booty boogie and Cajun accents thick as Bayou Teche mud. But listeners can’t get enough of this 1:59 ditty.

Fans demand the band plays it four or five times at each dance. It gets them on the floor doing the Pee Wee Herman and a Soul Train dance line. It’s going to get you, too.