Annotation:Lacassine Special

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LACASSINE SPECIAL. Cajun, Two-Step. USA, southwestern Louisiana. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA(Vocal)BBAA(Vocal)BBAA(Vocal)BB. A Cajun accordion favorite. Lacassine, Louiaiana, lies thirteen miles east of Lake Charles. The name is Spanish, not French, and means small house. Related songs, according to Raymond Francois (1990), are Merlin Fontenot's "La Danse de Coulee Croche" and the "Lacassine Breakdown."

Source for notated version: Iry LeJeune (La.) [Francois].

Printed sources: Francois (Yé Yaille Chere), 1990; pp. 193-195.

Recorded sources: Goldband Records GB-LP7740, Iry LeJeune.

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]



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