CR013 - Rusty & Doug Kershaw: The Cajun Way

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Tyler Mahan Coe

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🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Rusty & Doug come from a long tradition of surviving against the odds, against a world that would just as soon see you dead as see you succeed. Starting from nothing but a houseboat in Louisiana, they fought their way through an unscrupulous industry, through honky tonk stages screened off with chicken wire, onto the biggest stages in the business, in order to create some of the greatest music ever made. Then, they battled themselves, their past and their addictions. This episode is recommend for fans of: Hardcore History, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and discovering unbelievably good music that you've never heard.

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0:00.0	What does the word Cajun mean to you?
0:04.5	What do you think it means to most people?
0:07.9	I think we could ask that question of a hundred different people and get close to a hundred
0:13.3	different answers.
0:14.9	I can't tell you what it means, but I can tell you where it came from.
0:18.8	Or I can tell you where they came from.
0:21.3	And before I do that, I just want to let you know that I'm positive, I will be mispronouncing
0:26.6	words and names in this episode.
0:29.9	And that's just something we're all going to have to live with.
0:33.2	Alright.
0:39.2	Cajuns are people with Acadian ancestors who ended up in Louisiana after being forcibly evicted
0:45.2	from Eastern Canada by the British in the 1700s, 20 years before the American Revolutionary
0:51.6	War.
0:54.9	The first Acadians were children of French peasants who in the early 1600s colonized the
1:01.3	southeastern part of what we today call Canada.
1:05.4	It's worth noting that some percentage of these Acadians were mixed race.
1:09.9	Unlike what really happened down by Plymouth Rock, relations between the French settlers
1:15.0	and first nations of Canada, mainly the Mick Mac, were actually pretty good.
1:21.3	They really did learn local methods of hunting and fishing from the Mick Mac.
1:26.9	Some of the French men married Mick Mac women and started families.
1:32.0	Once trading posts are set up and the Mick Mac learn what kind of tools and goods they
1:37.0	can acquire by trading furs, it essentially changes the structure of their society.
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