San Diego’s four-day Gator by the Bay festival will celebrate its 21st anniversary next Thursday through May 12 with more than 100 performances celebrating an array of homegrown American roots-music ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clifton Chenier performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 4, 1983. (Credit: David Redfern/Redferns) Joel Savoy ...
When you're known as the King of Zydeco music, like the late Clifton Chenier was, it only makes sense that other recording legends would want to honor you. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ZYDECO SONT PAS SALES") ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger sings in swaggering French. Louisiana native Lucinda Williams delivers a slow, slinky, swamp pop sound. Steve Earle, Taj Mahal, Jimmie Vaughan, Charley ...
C.J. Chenier has the blues, bad. How bad? Well, the accordionist, usually a catalyst for musical high times, has named his new album after a PJ Harvey song. For those more familiar with Chenier's ...