Pine Grove Blues

This bit of film is from rural Louisiana in the mid-70s. It features a great Cajun accordionist, Nathan Abshire playing Pine Grove Blues. Be patient for the first moment or so until they get into the tune...it's well worth it. We often hear blues the same way, with the same instrumentation, styles, looks and so on. Check out what Mr. Abshire does to the blues.

Mr. Balfa and friends

Here's Dewey Balfa and Nathan Abshire along with Rockin Dopsie and Tony Balfa, playing to school children. I've posted this video a couple times over at my personal blog. It'll knock your socks off.



My apologies to those who viewed the video and thought WTF, this isn't the video he's talking about. My mistake, I dropped in the wrong video by accident. I've fixed it now though...

Pine Grove Blues