Zydeco

[GD Fan]

Any fans of zydeco music here? I'm a casual fan, but today I've been on a big Zachary Richard revival (which isn't probably strictly classified as zydeco).

Steve Riley is also a favorite.

And of course there's the great Stanley / Buckwheat Zydeco.

Then you've got Sunpie, Rockin Dopsie, Geno Delafose, Thursday nights at Rock N Bowl, etc.

Would love to hear some more ideas and suggestions.

P.S. Happy Mardi Gras weekend, everyone. Hope to see you at the Fais Do Do stage at jazz fest.

 

[HoweSound]

Also a Zydeco fan and a fan of Zachary Richard. I have a selection of his albums and was fortunate to see him perform live at a street concert in Vancouver, part of a francophonie celebration a long while ago.

 

[Deleted member 21219]

Big fan of Richard ("Zydeco Jump") and Buckwheat Zydeco ("I bought a racoon") plus the inimitable Clifton Chenier!

Brings back memories ...

Jim

 

[TimF]

For more than twenty years there has been a good-sized crowd of followers of Cajun and Zydeco music here in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and there were weekly dances in bars that could handle a good-sized folk dance crowd, and twice-monthly dances in dance halls. We brought the best performers from Louisiana to this end of the Mississippi to play. We also had a few local groups who specialized in this music. It is very sweet music to dance to. I think of this as the heart of American music. The Louisiana cajun and zydeco performers are demigods to me just as is Curtis Mayfield and Nina Simone.

 

[kemmler3D]

I think the first live concert I ever went to attended was Buckwheat Zydeco... I must have been around 4 or 5 years old. Don't know a ton about the genre, but it definitely checks a box for me.

I don't think this is properly zydeco at all, but it came up on Spotify and kinda reminded me of zydeco:

 

[GD Fan]

I think the first live concert I ever went to attended was Buckwheat Zydeco... I must have been around 4 or 5 years old. Don't know a ton about the genre, but it definitely checks a box for me.

I don't think this is properly zydeco at all, but it came up on Spotify and kinda reminded me of zydeco:

Thanks for posting that one. I'd call that Mardi Gras Indian more than zydeco but that's totally appropriate this weekend!

 

[SSS]

Like Zydeco too. In the USA I was at a live event of the band Zydeco Flames. Great players with live power and I have several CD from them.

 

[egellings]

Decades ago I saw Buckwheat play at a blues bar in Chicago called Biddy Mulligan's. Poor guy had a bad back and needed help with getting his squeezebox into playing position and removing it when he finished. He sure was good at it.

 

[anmpr1]

I have no idea about musical classifications. How would I know that? However in a New Orleans vein, which might possibly be Zydeco, I always appreciated (for reasons I can't quite establish right now) the Wild Tchoupitoulas. Probably because if I was going into battle...

 

[GD Fan]

I have no idea about musical classifications. How would I know that? However in a New Orleans vein, which might possibly be Zydeco, I always appreciated (for reasons I can't quite establish right now) the Wild Tchoupitoulas. Probably because if I was going into battle...

That one is a classic. Love it. It is also a good Meters album - they were the backing band.