Marc and I wandered into Smiley’s Club in Erath, Louisiana, one Sunday afternoon to hear some music and cool off from the blazing summer day. In that dark bar was a wonderful elderly family band, The Touchet Family. There was even a woman singer, Eva Touchet, whose voice I loved. She played bass in the band. I asked them if I could come interview them. I went to a house in New Iberia attached to a little store, the family business.
They told a story of the Cajuns who worked in the swamps and waterways, a very different life from the prairie Cajuns. Eva will be appearing in Volume 3 of my books, the book on women.

– Ann Savoy