Bois-Sec SArdoin has just died. I'm not technically competent to provided blue clickies to news and obituaries, so I hope someone can do that. He was a great Lousiana Creole muscian of huge importance. His music has been called La La, or just Creole. It was the black French music that preceded zydeco, and then overlapped with it, in Louisiana. I never had the pleasure of hearing him live, (though I had a drink with his musical partner Canray Fonenot once!). I also played a lot with JC Gallow, who himself played a lot with Bois-Sec and a lot of his children and grand-chidren: so I got a lot Of Bois-Sec's repertoire second-hand via JC.
   A great influence on me and many similar British cajun and zydeco wannabees, and of course an even greater influence on Louisiana music proper, both black and white.
Sympathy to his very extensive family.