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Brian Jack and the Zydeco Gamblers

Houston’s Hot-Stepping Zydeco Dance Band Fuses Creole and Black Cowboy Cultures!
Brian Jack and the Zydeco Gamblers blend the sounds of southwest Louisiana with the popular, emerging sounds of R&B, to create the modern, extremely danceable style of zydeco.

Music was always a part of Brian Jack's family life in Texas as he was growing up. Several members of the Jack clan were skilled musicians, and the future recording artist was 13 when he decided to keep the family tradition alive by taking up the guitar. Time spent working with a band called the Zydeco Two-Step, an outfit led by one of his uncles, cemented his interest. He gave up the guitar in favor of the accordion when he was a high school student. Jack learned the accordion without any formal instruction and within three months pulled together a band of his own, Brian Jack & the Zydeco Two-Step. The lineup continued to shift for the next 12 months, and eventually the group evolved into Brian Jack & the Zydeco Gamblers.