Word: zydeco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...southwestern Cajun country. Louisiana has been home to trumpeter Louis Armstrong, disgraced televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, demagogue Huey Long and author Walker Percy. The state, which has the nation's widest gap between rich and poor, is a quirky mix of Catholic and Protestant, oil and sugarcane, jazz and Zydeco...
...ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL. Ten days of hot music (jazz, blues, R. and B., Zydeco, gospel) and spicy food (jambalaya, crawfish pie, gumbo, red beans and rice), set in America's premier party town. Now in its 21st year, the festival will play host to some 3,000 musicians, including local artists and such international stars as B.B. King, Ramsey Lewis, Linda Ronstadt, Gary Burton, Ornette Coleman and the Crescent City's own Neville Brothers. April 27 through...
...ings, doll, dey ain't got on dat men-you: Jumbalay', Crawfish Etouffe, Boudin, Red Beans and Rice, Pee-cohn Pie (wid plenny o'shoo-gar!), Shrimp Po' Boys, Dixie Beer, Catfish, Dirty Rice, Snappy-Gator Tail with Jolie Blon Beer, Potato Pirogue, Tasso, Pralines, and ol' Zydeco records. You know dee ones - Clifton Chenier. Zachary Richard. Rockin' Dopsie. All dem people...
...during some of the tunes on this rambunctious album--but they also have the musical chops of a top session group and the considerable singing and songwriting talents of Kim Wilson, who also blows a mean blues harp. There is a lot of inbreeding in the T-Birds' music: Zydeco, blues and rock, Keith Richards and Bob Wills. But the sound they tap out of all this is righteous and roughhouse, good enough to get even the bouncers dancing...
Music is everywhere. Cajun zydeco and cool blues vie with big bands and hot jazz. There are marching bands and washboard scratchers, as well as beer hall oom-pah-pah and big-name oomph. Concert performers will run the scale from Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt to Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern. Naturally, Al Hirt and Pete Fountain will also drop by to blow a few notes on behalf of the local talent...