All Music Guide to Country

About this book

Nathan Abshire helped bring the blues and honky tonk to Cajun music and repopularized the accordion with his recordings during the 1950s and '60s, but still never managed to make a living from his music Born in Gueydan, L.A. on June 23, 1913, Abshire began playing professionally in the 1920s, and he first recorded in the early '30s with Happy Fats & His Rayne-Bo Ramblers Abshire went to work at the Basile, L.A. town dump around that time, and he held the job for most of his working life.