His tight, unfussy band knocked out the push-and-pull of the swamp rhythms so infectiously that "Johnny Can't Dance" became a taunt and "Bijou Creole" became a rousing theme song.
He brought that band to Catonsville Sunday night for a dance at the Knights of Columbus and demonstrated the widely varied pleasures of Creole music.Ī short, slender man in a black T-shirt and a wispy beard, Watson manipulated his double-row button accordion to pump out not just rhythmic riffs but also lyrical fills. Watson's desire to play more accordion led him to leave the Pine Leaf Boys amicably and form Bijou Creole in 2008. He first gained out-of-state attention as the fiddler for the Pine Leaf Boys, ostensibly a Cajun band but a group that could and did play Creole and zydeco just as deftly. The Houston native and Lafayette resident wants the freedom to play his fiddle as well as his button accordion, to play waltzes as well as two steps, and to play with the fluidity of Caribbean syncopation that influenced Creole music so much and contemporary zydeco so little.
Louisiana swamp song free#
Calls his band Bijou Creole: He wants to free zydeco music from its current straitjacket that permits nothing but a 2/4 stomp by returning to an earlier version of South Louisiana black music known as Creole (or "la la" or "zodico").
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