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This week, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will mark the centennial of the birth of the King of Zydeco — Louisiana ...
A new tribute album to the King of Zydeco Clifton Chenier will feature The Rolling Stones, Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal, Steve ...
The Rolling Stones and Lucinda Williams are among the many famous artists featured on an upcoming tribute album to late zydeco king Clifton Chenier.
The New Orleans Jazz Museum is honoring Clifton Chenier, the undisputed king of Zydeco music, during Jazz Fest with an ...
The Rolling Stones will return with a new song that might surprise casual fans: “Zydeco Sont Pas Sales,” a song with Creole ...
Zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier would've turned 100 on June 25. Valcour Records founder Joel Savoy and Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin ...
The Stones' Keith Richards said in a statement, “Zydeco and Clifton Chenier have been with me since forever! It’s deep South with some interesting French.” The first song out from “A Tribu ...
Steve Earle, Taj Mahal, Jimmie Vaughan, Charley Crockett and more energize Creole classics from accordionist and pioneer Clifton Chenier, the late King of Zydeco. Chenier, who died in 1987 due to ...