Listen to Si Dur D'etre Seul on the first disc of Mama I'll Be Long Gone. It took me many listens to just get past how lovely his melodeon technique is, but the recording is good enough to be able to hear subtle harmonic differences in the man's voice caused by different positions of his tongue, how he shapes his mouth cavity, and whether he is pushing from his throat or diaphragm. I grew up around many people who talked with chaw or snuff packed in there pretty good, and I recognized passages where it sounds like he is singing while using his tongue to repack something in his jaw, a certain altered articulation I am quite familiar with. Sure, it could be moving toward and away from the horn during wax cylinder recording or whatever...but I think it would be really funny/ironic if people chalked up some of his incomprehensibility to creole dialect when actually sometimes it was chaw. :D Not to speak ill of the dead--to me this guy is a god of melodeon and I am his humble student for years to come. The way this guy's life was snuffed out in spite of all the joy he brought to those around him, too sad.