Cajun, Zydeco
21 articles
Doug Kershaw: Crazy Cajun Fiddler
Profile and Interview by Danny Goldberg, Circus, April 1970
DOUG KERSHAW, before his current tour was primarily known as "the guy who was on the Johnny Cash Show the same night that Dylan was ...
Jimmy C. Newman: Cajun: Swamp Pop
Overview by Bill Millar, Record Mirror, 12 June 1971
COUNTRY music does not accept outside influences as readily as r&b and r&b doesn't lap them up as greedily as pop music. ...
Rusty and Doug Kershaw: Louisiana Man
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 16 October 1976
I GOT a pre-release tape of this two months ago and I played that constantly. Now I've got the record and it's wearing out very ...
Clifton Chenier's Cajun comes with French dressing
Report and Interview by Gary Kenton, Rolling Stone, 22 September 1977
The king of Zydeco accordion ...
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages audio, Spring 1978
The Cajun swamp-pop star talks about his first hit 'Lonely Days, Lonely Nights'; his immortal 1971 cover of Chuck Berry's 'Promised Land' and its belated UK reissue; his road band and stage act; getting drafted in 1961; musical attitudes in the American South; and the way races mixed (or not) in rural Louisiana.
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Interview by Richard Wootton, Omaha Rainbow, Summer 1978
'PROMISED LAND' by Johnnie Allan is a rarity — a perfect pop record; just over two minutes long, it's a dynamite recording of the old ...
Jimmy C. Newman: Jimmy Newman: Front Man of the Contemporary Cajun Movement
Profile and Interview by Martin Hawkins, Country Music People, January 1979
Among the most successful exponents of cajun music, JIMMY C. NEWMAN has remained a chart contender from the days of his debut hit single, 'Cry ...
Jimmy C. Newman: Jimmy 'C' Newman: Cajun Music And The Big Beat
Profile and Interview by Martin Hawkins, Melody Maker, 3 March 1979
Jimmy 'Cajun' Newman tells MARTIN HAWKINS: 'Cajun music has two speeds – off, and full-blast'. ...
Clifton Chenier: Verbum Dei High School, Watts, Los Angeles
Live Review by Don Snowden, Musician, January 1981
VERBUM DEI High School is better known for turning out basketball players like the Chicago Bulls' David Greenwood than staging musical events, but zydeco king ...
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 28 July 1983
IDA GUILLORY is the nearest thing Louisiana has to offer to a housewife superstar. A 55-year-old grandmother, Queen Ida had spent almost her entire life ...
Rockin' Dopsie: Hail The Crown Prince Of Zydeco: Rockin' Dopsie
Profile by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 10 February 1985
ARTIST: Rockin' Dopsie & the Cajun Twisters. PERSONNEL: Alton Rubin (Rockin' Dopsie), accordion, vocals; John Hart, saxophone; Russell Gordon, guitar; Alonzo Johnson, bass; David Rubin, washboard; ...
Clifton Chenier: Live at the San Francisco Blues Festival
Review by Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 19 November 1985
ZYDECO, the musical marriage of Louisiana's indigenous Cajun and Southern R&B traditions, first crawled out from the bayous and oil derricks of southwestern Louisiana 30 ...
Interview by Gene Santoro, Pulse!, February 1987
Arhoolie Records' Chris Strachwitz is Still Finding Great Music in Out-of-the-Way Places ...
Overview by John Morthland, High Fidelity, August 1987
The rehabilitation of the accordion: American pop's got a squeeze-box. ...
Ben Sandmel: Zydeco! (The University Press of Mississippi)
Book Review by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 23 August 1999
DEEP SOUTHERN places like Louisiana are packed with little mysteries. At least for us Yankees. We shiver in winter and enjoy a summer that's merely ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. Douglas James Kershaw, 24 January 1936, Teil Ridge, Louisiana, USA ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
b. 27 June 1913, near Gueydan, Louisiana, USA, d. 13 May 1981, Basile, Louisiana ...
Menlo Park: Borderline, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 19 February 2002
THE FREAKISH Menlo Park suggests the sort of many-headed monstrosity you would be left with in the aftermath of a nuclear Armageddon. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2004
BY THE TIME he got to Woodstock in 1971, Robert Charles Guidry was a wanted man. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Classic Rock, October 2006
HAD IT NOT been for the in-fighting, the pressure, crap deals, "stolen" songs and one control-freak member's desire to run the whole show, Creedence Clearwater ...
Johnnie Allan, Chuck Berry: Johnnie Allan's 'Promised Land'
Retrospective by Andy Gill, The Word, February 2011
ON 5th MARCH 1960, the same day that his rival Elvis Presley was being discharged from the army and welcomed back as an all-American icon, ...
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