On what would’ve been Clifton Chenier’s 100th birthday, the Rolling Stones honor the King of Zydeco with a high-octane cover of “Zydeco Sont Pas Salés”—part of a new tribute album benefiting a scholarship in Chenier’s name.
Browsing: Clifton Chenier
With Taj Mahal, the Rolling Stones, and Lucinda Williams on board, a new album honors Clifton Chenier’s mammoth influence on American roots music.
Zydeco dynamite Clifton Chenier was the baddest bluesman out of the bayou state. Zydeco’s a genre developed by Creole folks in southwestern Louisiana. It’s like a gumbo–a little bit of blues, a little bit of country, a little bit of sound all the bayou’s own. And it was made famous by Monsieur Chenier himself…
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