Carriere Brothers

When fiddler Joseph "Bebe" Carriere passed away from a heart attack in 2001, it was considered the end of a musical era. Bebe and his brother Eraste Carriere were masters of the old-time style called "la la" music, and as the Carriere Brothers were a bridge from traditional Creole styles to the later, but still rural, zydeco style. Nobody had ever come along that could play the way this fiddler did, perhaps because nobody had the right window screen. This is actually a reference to the manner in which this great Creole fiddler fabricated his first instrument as a young whipper...