Tompkins Square has released a compilation of all Amede Ardoin's recordings: "Mama, I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin 1929-1934" (Tompkins Square, 2011).

Online commentors an NPR interview with the compiler, Christopher King, are distressed at what they interpret as a confusion in the article between Zydeco and Cajun musical identities, but Tompkins Square touts Ardoin as "the father of Cajun and Zydeco" in their blurb.

It sure looks to me (and I admit to being totally ignorant in the genres) that Ardoin seriously blurred any line between Cajun and zydeco.

That web newspage at Tompkins Square has links to the NPR story, a Washington Post review of the album, and a PBS piece on Amede Ardoin (on YouTube).

~ Becky in Tucson