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The Organina Thibouville is a small mechanical organ popular in the drawing rooms of the Parisian bourgeoisie. As a device designed for home entertainment, it played folding punched cards imprinted... more

In the mid-1970s, a few aficionados of mechanical street music revived the pre-World War I tradition of organ grinders by building new instruments and making new folding punch cards for these devices... more

Performed by Frenchman Gerard Dole and his band, the Backdoor Cajuns, the material on this album comes from early recordings of Cajun music. According to Dole, a "backdoor Cajun" is someone not born... more

Gerard Dole presents a Cajun-flavored collection of songs, tales, ditties and dances about the "little creatures and the big animals" of Southern Louisiana tiny woodworms and love bugs, an old ox... more