Jo-EL Sonnier sings The Hicks Wagon Special
I’m back! Had to take a few days off to help Bobbye with some pressure washin’ around the house. It’s day 36 of the quarantine, I had to go see my doctor today for my wellness checkup and he said he couldn’t find anythin’ wrong with me. Thank God! Not bad for an old Cajun boy of 73. I love my doctor and he loves traditional French Cajun music so we get along great! Anyway, God decided we had worked enough outside so he brought the rain and I get the afternoon off. Today’s song is an instrumental that was made famous by the legend, Aldus Roger and The Lafayette Playboys. It is about a club in Opelousas where they also had horse races. I went there when I was a kid but I don’t think I ever played there. The song is called The Hicks Wagon Wheel Special.
About Jo-El Sonnier
Jo-El Sonnier was an American singer-songwriter and accordionist who performed country music and Cajun music. Originally signed to Mercury Nashville Records, Sonnier charted several minor singles on the Billboard country charts in the late 1970s. By the late 1980s, he had signed to RCA Records, breaking through with the Top Ten hits "No More One More Time" and a cover of Richard Thompson's "Tear-Stained Letter". Although his chart success waned at the beginning of the 1990s, he continued recordi...
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