With a line-up of brothers Michael (fiddle, vocals) and David Doucet (guitar, vocals), Jimmy Breaux (accordion), Billy Ware (percussion), Tommy Alesi (percussion), and Mitchell Reed (bass, fiddle) the band founded in 1975 have gone on to become one of the most well-known purveyors of traditional Creole and Cajun folk tunes, incorporating elements from rock, jazz, blues, calypso, and other genres in reworkings of traditional tunes and original material.