of legendary zydeco—playing family. the music, zydeco. tell me about it? zydeco, a lot of people get mixed up with cajun music, but if you hear zydeco, you hear more of blues, r&b, soul and rock n' roll, mixed into one. this, he says, is the expression of louisiana's black creole community. that's a bit of african, a bit of french and some caribbean all mixed up. and apart from the accordion, chubby says the essential instrument in the zydeco sound is the one that evolved from his grandmother's washboard. this was my grandmother's washing machine! a washing machine? this was a washing machine back in the day. and you hear the rhythms? the buttons on your shirt would make a sound like that, and my grandmother was washing clothes at the time, and thought, hey,