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Zydeco legend Clifton Chenier would have turned 100 in 2025. This year he's the subject of a book, a box set and a tribute ...
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Louisiana musician Clifton Chenier would have been 100 on June 25, and a new tribute album featuring The Rolling Stones ...
The lively songs and performances of Clifton Chenier, who would have turned 100 today, brought fans—including the Rolling ...
Joel Savoy doesn’t remember exactly when he first heard the music of Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco—the electrified and ...
The Rolling Stones' cover of Clifton Chenier's 'Zydeco Sont Pas Sales' was released on June 25, 2025, part of an album called ...
Clifton Chenier, the Louisiana musician who pioneered the Creole R&B hybrid genre known as zydeco, isn’t with us anymore. He passed away in 1987 from kidney disease that resulted from his diabetes.
"I’d never heard the accordion in the blues before," said Mick Jagger upon hearing zydeco music for the first time.
Zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier would have turned 100 this year; a new album featuring the Rolling Stones and Lucinda Williams ...
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 ...
A special, 7-inch vinyl of the Stones’ single, “Zydeco Sont Pas Sale,” drops June 25, Clifton Chenier’s birthday. It features ...
To honor what would have been his 100th birthday, a tribute album honoring Louisiana zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier will be ...