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Artist: Amédé Ardoin
Author: Amédé Ardoin
Label: Columbia
Year: 1929
With Dennis McGee (fiddle). Amédé spelled Armadie on the label. During the same Columbia field trip in New Orleans they first recorded Blind Willie Johnson.
Covers:
Iry LeJeune [same melody in Jolie Catin]
Bois Sec Ardoin & Canray Fontenot [Alan Lomax recording; they both started playing 'ti fer (triangle) with Amédé]
Clifton Chenier [same melody in Sweet Little Doll (Cher Catin); taking credit]
Carrière Brothers [as Jolie Catin]
Boozoo Chavis [idem]
C.J. Chenier [as Cher Catin]
Creole Amédé Ardoin was from Eunice, LA. That's also where he got involved in a terrible fight, probably racially inspired. He played dead to avoid being killed, got run over by a Model T Ford and was so severely wounded he never played again. Died in a Pine Ville, LA hospital in 1942.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)