LynnMarie (last name: Rink)-If you're like me, polka may be the first musical style when accordions cross your mind. Rink is one of leading ladies in her field, helming two bands--LynnMasrie & The Nashville Polka Guys and LynnMarie & E3 Americana--as well as working as an inspirational speaker, basing her talks on growing up in a dysfunctional family, being a n adult child of an alcoholic, and having a special needs child. Do you first think of polka when you think of music made with accordions?

Julieta Venegas-She's one of the most successful Spanish language pop/rock solo artists, but she not only plays accordion. Guitar and keyboards also number among the 17 instruments at which she's proficient. If accordion seems an unusual instrument to incorporate into rock music, consider the instrument's abundant use in more folkloric genres of Mexican, Central and South American popular music. Venegas even incorporated her accordion into the punky ska of Tiajuana No!, the band of which she was a member before embarking on a solo career. Do you yet believe accordion is an odd fi for a rocker?:

Judy Tenuta-If "Weird "Al Yankovic is the only purposefully funny person you associate with accordions, you either must have forgotten about or never knew of this late comedian who incorporated the instrument into her stand-up act upon the suggestion of a friend and because her mother liked the music of Lawrence Welk and urged her daughter to learn how to play the the champagne-adjacent bandleader's instrument of choice. I think the accordion accentuated her shtick...but do you?

Ksenija Sidorova-Hearing this Latvian classical accordionist on radio earlier the day I'm writing this is my inspiration for these questions. Before hearing Sidorova I'd known of the accordion used as an instrument to interpret art/classical music, even accordion orchestras, but I'd forgotten about its use in that context. Her latest album focuses on works by living Eastern European composers, but her repertoire also includes transpositions of Bach and Bizet and others. The accordion is a kind of a bulky thing to play, and requires dexterity and nimbleness of different sorts than that required of other more femininely-associated instruments, like the harp. I think it is, but do you see playing accordion a lady-like pursuit?

The Who's "Squeeze Box"-The protagonist of the mid-1970's hit may be playing an accordion, bandoneon, concertina, or maybe another sort of squeezebox. The lyrics are unclear, but it was really written to be a euphemistic ditty about sexual activity. If you've heard it before its inclusion here, did you figure it to be a randy ditty?