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Louisiana musician Clifton Chenier would have been 100 on June 25, and a new tribute album featuring The Rolling Stones ...
Zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier would have turned 100 this year; a new album featuring the Rolling Stones and Lucinda Williams ...
A special, 7-inch vinyl of the Stones’ single, “Zydeco Sont Pas Sale,” drops June 25, Clifton Chenier’s birthday. It features ...
Chenier came to be known as the King of Zydeco. He toured Europe; won a Grammy for his 1982 album, I’m Here! ; performed at ...
To honor what would have been his 100th birthday, a tribute album honoring Louisiana zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier will be ...
Adcock, like Mick Jagger, cut his musical molars on the accordion blues and boogie of Opelousas native Clifton Chenier, the heralded King of Zydeco. Adcock is also a producer on an album that ...
Once seen as a regional dance-music curiosity, zydeco has turned into an international art form. For proof, look no further ...
Profits from the album will go toward a newly established Clifton Chenier Memorial Scholarship Fund at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, benefiting students studying zydeco accordion.
To mark the 100th anniversary of zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier, Smithsonian Folkways will release a box set on Arhoolie ...