The album, released on musician Joel Savoy’s Valcour Records label based in Eunice, pairs rock, folk and blues icons with ...

This week, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will mark the centennial of the birth of the King of Zydeco — Louisiana ...

The Rolling Stones and Lucinda Williams are among the many famous artists featured on an upcoming tribute album to late zydeco king Clifton Chenier.

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 ...

In Michael Tisserand’s “Kingdom of Zydeco” book, Lafayette saxophonist Dickie Landry tells the story of bringing Jagger to a 1970s Chenier dance at the Verbum Dei High School auditorium in ...

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