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News: Performance / Tour

Grammy Award-Winning Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Arden

"Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics...propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances."—The New York Times Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr.—along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco—is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco will perform ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Sellersville (PA) & Bordentown (NJ)

Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Sellersville (PA) & Bordentown (NJ)

"Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics...propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances."—The New York Times Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr.—along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco—is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco is on ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jacqui Sutton: Billie & Dolly

Read "Jacqui Sutton: Billie & Dolly" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Jacqui Sutton and The Frontier OrchestraBillie & DollyToy Blue Typewriter Productions2010 Heaven knows that contemporary jazz vocals could use a shot of sense-of-humor. The scene hosts a legion of earnest singers paying tribute to their idols, firebrands intent on extending the already stretched-taut realms of scat and ...

Album

Sings the Blues

Label: Arhoolie Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Ain

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Article: Album Review

Clifton Chenier: Sings the Blues

Read "Sings the Blues" reviewed by Derek Taylor


Everyone has a list of those unsung musicians who strike a special chord. Names unknown to the public at large whose contributions go almost completely unrecognized or are overshadowed by others in their immediate orbit. Near the top of my own list sits Cleveland Chenier. Like the lots handed Nat Adderley and Tommy Turrentine, Cleveland almost ...

Album

Live! At Grant Street

Label: Arhoolie Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Mon Fait Mon L

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Article: Album Review

Clifton Chenier: Live! At Grant Street

Read "Live! At Grant Street" reviewed by Derek Taylor


Clifton Chenier may not have invented Zydeco, but most aficionados will agree that he was the undisputed King of the music during his lifetime. Gargantuan chops on the accordion and an aptness for adroitly blending the ingredients of the genre (Creole, Cajun and Blues) into a wholly personal pastiche assured his ascendancy to the throne. Fortunately ...

Album

Bogalusa Boogie

Label: Arhoolie Records
Released: 1976


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