Derrick J. Guidry Born
Derrick J. Guidry, scrubboard player for the Zydeco Boneshakers, was born June 20, 1986 in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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Juré was an older Creole tradition of call-and-response singing, clapping and stomping — rhythm and voice without instruments — that fed into early zydeco.
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