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  • there is a song to about him does any body know what it is

  • what a sharm nice music

  • ME CAGO EN EL RACISMO Y EN TODOS LOS RACISTAS!!! CÓMO ES POSIBLE MATAR A UN ARTISTA ASÍ !!! Y ADEMÁS, "LA QUE PRUEBA NEGRO NO VUELVE" ¡¡¡GILIPOLLAS!!! CES CONNARDS SONT DE TROP SUR LA PLANÈTE!!! THOSE WHO KILL AN ARTIST WILL BE ONE DAY WITHOUT ANY MUSIC , OR PAINTING , OR FILM, OR NOVEL TO EASE THEIR PAIN, AND THEN THY WILL KNOW THEIR SIN. ARTISTS ARE CHOSEN BY THE GODS TO WIPE MEN'S TEARS. AND ALL THIS FUSS ABOUT SEGREGATION IS FALSE . JEFFERSON TOLD NO LIES...AND HAD SEVEN MULATTO CHI LDREN

  • He sounds like a squalling cat.

  • When I listened this music I remember Africa! this music is beautiful!

    Africa alive!!!

  • It was the white guys that killed him....Feel proud...do you...??-

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    I don't give a s.hit what colour you are. A talented man died. Why don't you just listen to the music..............

  • Thank you.

  • pretty crazy. never realized someone with the same last name as me had history like this.

  • greatest regional accent ever? most definately

  • my dad {'DENUS MCGEE"} PLAYED WITH "AMEDE"ARDOIN".. THEY MADE GREAT MUSIC IN THE 1930 S..BUT YU KNOW WHAT ..THE PEOPLE LOVEDTHEM... BUT A WHITE MAN AND BLACK MAN PLAYING MUSIC TOGETHER..IN THOSE DAYS .. A MIRACLE! OF COURSE THERE WAS THOSE RACIST BASTARDS WHO DID HIM IN! SADLY.

  • racism is UGLY nomatter where it's from, people need to recognize their own forms of racism themselves...I am a cajun woman & experience racism myself from the creole people here, blaming and hgolding onto the past that I had absoutely nothing to do with...the younger generation of whites here aren't as racist as some of the black I have come across...ALL racism is ridiculous and ignorant PERIOD! We are all human and our Creator made all of us and loves us all! No1 is a "pure" race these days

  • @CajunCatherine you just plain ol white not cajun Cajuns are mulatoes and straight up blacks that speak that french slang mix with enlish but you are just plain ol white and if you think that is racist good for you blacks Native americans and chicanos can not be racist

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  • @BamaBoy205SR ....hopefully you are not as stupid as you write...but my bets are that you are just an angry ignorant fool who doesn't have a clue what a cajun is...everything you said is totally wrong...if you want an education on what a Cajun is then email me and i will give it to you....get an education or is that available to you in bama....

  • @BamaBoy205SR

    jesus H christ boy. you are honestly i bet just a dumbass uneducated fool. just look at your grammar, boy go to school

  • @CajunCatherine hello...you are right on...i am a cajun who has a mixed daughter...i have spent my whole life spending time with my cajun and creole family and other black family through marriage...by far the most racist folks i have met have been my black relatives...i love them but it is true...and i say that because in their minds they don't think they are racist because as they say to me..."i am being pro-black and that isn't racist"..tell that to the white guy is the one being denied...

  • We remember the holocaust for its inhumanity. Lets also take note/remember of slavery, and racism for its fruits, which seem to continue to be growed and nurtured by "massa" in many different guises today!! How else do you describe the murder of an excellent entertainer? Ethnic Cleansing!!

  • Lets also not forget that while millions of african slaves were forced into servitude in foreign lands, their brethren at home were subjected to the worst kind of exploitation in recent history: colonisation! South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, (all cases in point)! all implemented by the gracious, tolerant white folk ("massa")! Its a fact, it happened/happens, lets not sweep it under the carpet anymore.

  • I'm black. So wats new about a black man being murdered simply for being black?? its been happening for 500+ years, its still happening today, so cant understand y its so strange. prejudice is human nature. racial/religious intolerance is genetic (mostly because we dislike differences as humans). White prejudice to other races: black, indian, native american, etc is well documented. whether republican or democrat, they're same ol "massa" to me!

  • It is sad indeed to see the hold that the Party of Slavery still wields over some well trained African Americans. From supporting racial eugenicists like the Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood to pulling the voting lever for the departed Klansman, Robert C. Byrd, to opposing school choice for Black children, the Democratic Party has counted on well behaved Black men to defend its sordid history. Sad, indeed. I could cry.

  • AMEDEE' ARDOIN WAS THE "BEST ACCORDION" PLAYER AND SOULFUL SINGER "OF LOUISIANA FRENCH MUSIC!  MY DAD " DENNIS MCGEE PLAYED ON MANY OF HIS RECORDS. JUST LISTEN TO THIS MAN "SING AND PLAY !! GM

  • @GJNCA look it up on youtube it was a black man brought a gun nbc did not show his face but others did he was just standing up for right to carry.The news people always try to divide & Conquer At least good Music brings people Together

  • Don't forget this. It was the Democrats who fought to defend slavery. It was the Democrats who instituted Jim Crow Laws in the South. It was the Democrats who filibustered against the Civil Rights Act. And it is a Democrat Senator, Robert Byrd of W. Va. who was the W. Va. state Kleagle of the Klan.

  • @0311Jackson

    And don't forget that those Democrats became Republicans by way of the Dixiecrats and that the Republican progressives became Democrats in the mid-20th Century! If you're going to quote history, quote the whole thing!

  • The fact that GJNCA left out of his screed is that the photograph of that man with the gun over his shoulder was cropped to hide his face. FoxTV showed the complete photo and it was a black man. But all the other media still use the cropped photo and describe it as indicative of racism against Obama. Laugh out loud.

  • There are no two ways about it - this story will INDEED break your heart. Here's to a true American legend... May your music live on forever.

  • Big Will & the bluesmen greats a other blues member

  • What a sad end to a great man, but he will live forever in Cajun legacy.

  • @jumahl47 Well, I agree to a certain point. I was mainly addressing your statement that you didn't want to go "home" because of the racists. I'd like to think that any culture is far greater than it's lowest inhabitants lol. And I have a feeling those asking you if you'd move to Louisiana could sense that you had that deep desire to return to your roots. I understand...I ran from my own culture for years...only to return and stand tall among those who would despise me. It's not everyone.

  • wait, what language was he sangin in? I liked this video, I'm glad I learned of that poor black man who was jus tryin to get sweat off his face.

  • @kstarBAM

    I would think it would be Cajin or Creole French Dialect.

    Pretty harsh way to go, sad loss of a great voice to ignorance and prejudice.

  • wow, they killed him just because an white lady wiped his sweat....so sad

  • There is no record of Ardoin's death. The story of the racist running him over with a car is apocryphal.

    He could easily have been hit by a car on an unlit road, or he could have killed over an issue of money.

  • These guys sound like they were witnesses. Who are you to say they weren't. Besides, it's not like rednecks wouldn't kill a talented black man because he made them jealous.

  • "When dey start drinkin dat moonshine you know, dey didn't want dat...dat black man dere. Run if off"

  • There are variations in the details of this story but the bottom line is that some ignorant racists killed one of the best players and singers who ever lived. Amede was and is a tremendous inspiration to many musicians who followed, including Iry LeJune. I have loved and played this music for 36 years. Sometimes people would ask me - you love the music so much, why don't you move to Louisiana? and I would answer that even now, many of the people there are just red necks with a French accent.

  • @jumahl47 "many of the people there are just red necks with a French accent. "

    Our rights are never won by running away from the rednecks, sometimes we have to stand and if that means killed in addition, then we still stood. If this is your people, do not run from the problems, go and make them better. I appreciate your comment on here. Thank you.

  • I don't need to run toward the problem - it's everywhere - I can resist racism right here at home, no need to move to Louisiana to do so. As I grow older I have less time and patience for ignorant people and no room in my life for them if I can avoid it.

  • Ened for ours vhite people :-(.He did have an good and nice singing and music

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  • Fucking rednecks! Amedee was great. But his music is not dead. Terrible story for that great accordeonist. RIP

  • Sadd Sadd Story. He Was Great.

    He Sort Of Looks Like Tommy Davidson, Just A Little.....

  • It's a shame on humanity that racism still exist..

  • I love you Amedee , thank you for lighting the torch and for your love of Creole music and life.

    He is the reason my cousin Beau Jocque can be remembered as a great Creole Zydeco musician.

  • From Wikipedia:

    "The date and place of his death is uncertain. Descendants [...] tell a story, now well-known, about a racially motivated attack [...]

    Others consider the story apocryphal. Other versions say that Amédé was poisoned, not beaten, possibly by a jealous fellow musician.

    Contemporaries said that Amédé suffered from impaired mental and musical capacities later in his life probably from that infamous night. He ended up in an asylum in Pineville, Louisiana."

  • Amade, you live on with your wonderful legacy in the present and future..........while your tormentors are lost in the ashes of the past.

  • I read about Amede Ardoin. It is a sad story. My stepdad has his music on a CDs.

  • Never heard the story, just the name. A very sad story. Thanks for posting.

  • The lady that speaks at segment starting at 1:08 was my uncle's mother in law of course Bois Sec was his father in law...Ms. Marceline Ardoin. She was a wonderful lady!!!!

  • It's so sad!! Why did those fools need to injure him? (I know why.) It's upsetting, though.

  • So it's Cajun? Beautiful accent.

  • i downloaded some johnny rebel tracks a while ago.what a stinking piece of excrement the man is. if he comes this way i'm going to kick his white inbred teeth so hard they'll be shooting out the back of his skull.

  • According to Wikipedia on the internet, the original Rebel is Clifford Joseph Pee Wee" Trahan. He is 70 years old and still lives in rural Louisiana.

  • "and he decided a song about dat..." Boy that makes me smile to hear that old accent again.

  • I found a VHS of this series at the NYU library. It's a great documentary on the Cajuns of Louisiana (there's 3 other episodes on Blues, New Orleans music, and the Appalachians).

    However, I find Lomax's appearances irritating.

  • falcan,ary: THANK YOU!!! . I was ........priveliged ..to hear ........Bois .Sec and ...Canray . in ......person ....inDC years ago I wish I could have heard Denis M<cGee and Sady Courville play twin fiddles at the RaginCajuns football gamehalf time ceremony I hope someone can post this

  • what a damn shame....this fricking racism needs to stop in this country!

  • sadly, it will never go away. Publically wise, yes, they think rascism is over. But people keep these things personal and always will. Others who are offended, should learn to let them say what they want and move on.

  • great story.....THANKS for sharing!

  • I really like this video, Amede is one of my idols.

  • didnt want that black.... --- black man there...

  • I have always been a fan of Amedee Ardoin, but never until right now did I know how he died. I am shocked and upset at learning about this. My respect for A. Ardoin is even greater now. R.I.P. Monsieur Ardoin.

  • This doc was made in the 1980's. Recently, it was found that Ardoin died in a mental hospital. He did get into some kind of accident, but it didn't hurt his singing.

  • Even though I got mad at you about the Michael Doucet comments, I still respect you for all of these wonderful Cajun music videos you post on here, Falcan, and thank you for this beautiful commentary by Canray Fontenot about our great,lost hero, Amede. Canray was a pure soul.

  • Either way, opinions differ and you're free to have your own. Personally, i feel Doucet's way overrated, but then again, just my opinion. Glad you enjoy the videos.

  • Why do so many of you in La. not give Michael Doucet the respect and status he deserves? I noticed that most comments that are not great about him are from La. people. You obviously know a great deal about Cajun music and are around a lot of the artists. I just find it strange you don't see how wonderful this artist is. Oh well at least we outsiders adore and praise him.

  • @falcanary t'es fou, il est excellent Doucet, c'est un des meilleurs violonistes de la Louisiane.

  • @Stefanochti Then you haven't seen many Louisiana fiddle players.

  • @mairabella

    People from Louisiana say bad things about Michael Doucet because he goes right on singing regardless of the fact he can't sing. I don't think that many people from here complain about his fiddle playing, just the horrible, out of tune caterwauling...

  • @orbis1978 Please tell me you're not serious because I got addicted to him because his voice is the most beautiful, attractive thing about him and I'm saying this after listening to him for over 27 years and comparing him to all kinds of music! No other cajun or any kind of singer compares to him. He's also the greatest fiddler of course!

  • People from Louisiana say bad things about Michael Doucet because he goes right on singing regardless of the fact he can't sing. I don't think that many people from here complain about his fiddle playing, just the horrible, out of tune caterwauling...

  • @mairabella

    lol how dare you even mention michael doucet in the same breath of air as amede ardoin

  • @masterchiefer123 In case you don't know this, Michael Doucet has taught more people about Amede and Canray than anyone. No one can channel Amede's music and spirit like Michael. Get some respect because we couldn't appreciate Amede without learning all that MIchael taught. He is as much of a talent as Amede.

  • Wow, I've never heard this guy before. What an incredible voice.

  • Here is another example why racism is just plain stupid! There are stupid..ignorant people in all races. That's just the way it is. I can't wait until racism is dead.

  • When I heard Amadee's story i was shocked,i hold a deep deep respect for this genius, for me when i hear his accordion and voice he is right here with us, bless him

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