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New Orleans Cajun-Zydeco Fest, 2019. Zydeco (/ ˈ z aɪ d ɪ ˌ k oʊ,-d iː-/ ZY-dih-koh, -dee-; French: zarico) is a music genre that was created in rural Southwest Louisiana by Afro-Americans of Creole heritage.
Zachary Richard mentions Chenier in his song "Clif's Zydeco" (on Richard's 2012 album Le Fou). The Squeezebox Stompers' "Zydeco Train" says, "Clifton Chenier, he's the engineer." The jam band Phish often covers Chenier's song "My Soul" in live performances. [17] Chenier is the subject of Les Blank's 1973 documentary film Hot Pepper.
[4]), but they often performed as merely Buckwheat Zydeco. The New York Times said: "Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics…propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances."
He particularly enjoyed developing new songs by listening to blues records. However, Carrière mocked the more modern Creole genre, zydeco, jesting in one interview, "They talk about the musicians, and say so-and-so is going to play a number about the zydeco, and I say, they ought to make some about the peas. Yeah, I'm going to get them to try ...
For Chenier, Sidney dressed up as the zydeco monarch, complete with a crown, cape and gold tooth. The Buckwheat bit was done with a ventriloquist dummy. [citation needed] His first zydeco album, Give Me a Good Time Woman was released in 1982 on the Maison de Soul label. "He already knew keyboards and that was half the battle," said Soileau.
Where There's Smoke There's Fire is an album by the American musician Buckwheat Zydeco, released in 1990. [1] [2] Zydeco and his band, Ils Sont Partis, supported the album with a North American tour. [3] The album peaked at No. 140 on the Billboard 200. [4]
Joe Hall was an American accordionist and vocalist who performed Creole la la, Cajun, and zydeco music. He passed away on November 21, 2024. He passed away on November 21, 2024. Hall was born in Eunice, Louisiana , on December 15, 1971. [ 1 ]
C. J. Chenier (born Clayton Joseph Thompson, September 28, 1957 in Port Arthur, Texas) is the Creole son of the Grammy Award-winning "King of Zydeco", Louisiana musician, Clifton Chenier. [1] In 1987, Chenier followed in his father's footsteps and led his father's band as an accordion performer and singer of zydeco , a blend of cajun and creole ...