Clifton Chenier & His Red Hot Louisiana Band in New Orleans [Live]

1. Boogie Louisiane

2. Cotton-Picker Blues

3. J'Aime Pain de Mais (I Love Corn Bread)

4. Pousse Cafe Waltz

5. Hello Rosa Lee

6. Jusque Parce Que Je T'Aime (Only Because I Love You)

7. Boogiein' in New Orleans

8. Rumblin' on the Bayou

9. I'm Gonna Take You Home Tonite

10. Mon Vieux "Buggy" (My Old Buggy)

11. Crying My Heart Out to You

12. Tous Les Jours (Everyday)

13. Mardi Gras Boogie

Tracks:

Je Me Reveiller Le Matin (I Woke Up This Morning)
I'm Coming Home (To See My Mother)
Ay, Ai, Ai
Brown Skin Woman (Who Can Your Good Man Be)
Hot Rod
It's Hard
All Your Love
Party Down (At The Blue Angel Club)
Why Did You Go Last Night
Ma Mama Ma Dit (My Mama Told Me)
Zydeco Cha Cha
Bon Ton Roulet
Black Gal
Johnny Can't Dance
I'm On The Wonder
Zydeco Sont Pas Sale (Snap Beans Without Salt) (Alternate Take)
Ain't No Need Of Crying (Every Day Is The Same/Louisiana Blues)
Interview With Clifton Chenier Over Radio Station KPFA - Berkeley, CA - 1978

Customer Reviews:

Great Collection of a Master.......2003-11-07

I guess I'm not qualified to evaluate whether this is the best collection of Chenier's work, but this is a great collection. I was surprised that Chenier is a pretty good blueman, but the Zydeco numbers are the best, and that's why most people want to listen to. I suppose alternating the blues with the zydeco balances the collection.

The interview at the end of the CD starts to meander, but I was surprised to hear Chenier say he invented Zydeco mostly to distiguish himself from other musicians, rather than some compelling need to create a new musical form.

There maybe a better collection out there, but this was good enough for me!

Fantastic Collection!!!.......2003-07-23

A great introduction to the best singer/accordionist in the history of Zydeco, this collection features a mix of Chenier's classic Zydeco standards, like "Ay, ai, ai" and "Zydeco Sont Pas Sale" as well as some great blues numbers. One of the strengths of this title, as well as a weakness, is that longtime Chenier producer Chris Strachwitz set out to highlight Chenier's blues abilities, which are considerable. Chenier was an outstanding blues singer, but the price for the inclusion of each blues number is the exclusion of a Zydeco masterpiece (although the listener never feels shorted, as there is not a bad cut on the whole album). I suppose it is a six of one, half a dozen of the other, with the high level of blues actually adding another facet to the King of Zydeco (if the quality were any less, then I might complain, but as it is, it's really perfect).

Overall, the album is outstanding: some of the best Zydeco music ever made, interspersed with top-notch blues and topped off with a fascinating interview, which, along with a previously unreleased version of "Zydeco Sont Pas Sale" make this interesting even to a long-time Clifton Chenier fan.

Louisiana Blues & Zydeco
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Chenier's happy, cool sound rocks!

Louisiana Blues & Zydeco
Clifton Chenier
Manufacturer: Arhoolie Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Clifton Chenier & His Red Hot Louisiana Band in New Orleans

ASIN: B00074CC4G
Release Date: 2005-02-08

Tracks:

Zydeco Et Pas Sale
Lafayette Waltz
Louisiana Two Step
Clifton's Waltz
Louisiana Blues
Hot Rod
Banana Man
Ay-Tete-Fee
It's Hard
I Can't Stand
I Can Look Down At Your Woman
Accordion Boogie
Banana Man (Take 2)
Ay, Ai Ai
Clifton's Blues (Where Can My Baby Be)
Let's Rock Awhile
Elmore's Blues
Clifton's Two Step
Zydeco Et Pas Sale (Take 1)

Customer Reviews:

Chenier's happy, cool sound rocks!.......2007-05-22

like most dumb white guys, my first exposure to zydeco came through stuff like Paul simon's GRACELAND and the name Clifton Chenier stuck in my brain. A couple of decades later, our library has a few choice buckwheat Zydeco CDs on file and finally, here's the king of 'em all, Clifton Chenier, washboard, electric guitar and accordian: how cool is that? If I'da known how incredibly awesome an accordian can sound, i'da taken lessons.

You can't hate the accordian when its played right, and here, it is sterling.

This is killer blues and real zydeco: happy and sad mixing together like sweet and sour ribs. You CANNOT go wrong with this CD; put it on and feel better. HMOs should give it out to people; we all get the blues, but a well-worn bluesman celebrates our ability to appreciate that we can, really, feel lousey and love it. Great blues embraces our humanity and serves it up hot, like dancing in the street on the Day of the Dead. Chenier's sound is simple and magical stuff; and while you're unlikely to find it on the radio outside of Chicago's WXRT or satellite stations, here it is to buy and own for yourself, and support a genre that should never, ever end.

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The King of Zydeco
Great listening!
Vas-y Clifton! (Go Clifton!)
Ride 'Em - Right on!

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Clifton Chenier
Manufacturer: Arhoolie Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000001HJ
Release Date: 1993-12-01

Tracks:

One Step At A Time
They Call Me Crazy
There's Something On My Mind
Ride' Em Cowboy
My Mama Told Me
I Woke Up This Morning
I May Be Wrong
Take Off Your Dress
Let's Go To Grand Coteau
I'm A Farmer
Ti Na Na
Come Go Along With Me
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Amazon.com essential recording

Having won unanimous praise as a high-water mark in the zydeco and Cajun traditions, Bogalusa Boogie should have a place reserved for it in any collection of American music. It's got enough driving energy to hold its weight against any rock recording of the mid-1970s, when it was recorded in one day. It's got a trawler full of zydeco soul, too, riding a percussion wave built from the King of Zydeco's brother Cleveland Chenier's rub-board and Robert St. Julian's lag-time blues drumming. Leading the Red Hot Louisiana Band from behind his brawny, always-on accordion, Clifton Chenier charges through "Ride 'Em Cowboy" with devil-may-care abandon and then slinks into a chilled blues on "I May Be Wrong," riffing his accordion off the sax and guitar in splendid contrast. Chenier never sounded better on record than here, and for that fact alone, this is a must-have. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

The King of Zydeco.......2007-01-02

I got this record back when I was in school when Clifton was still burning down the house on Saturday nights down here on the bayou. You couldn't help but be taken away by the backbeat groove of this band. Zydeco was initially the black mans cranked up cajun music. Nowadays, it can be heard all over South Louisiana in various forms.
But here is the man who really put it on the map and it still sounds as good today as it did thirty years ago. Just listen to the contemporaries around the South who still move to that beat.

Great listening!.......2003-12-22

My first and favorite Clifton Chenier recording. Very approachable music even for the uninitiated. I agree with a previous reviewer that if you only try one zydeco CD, this should be the one. Clifton is absolutely "the man" when it comes to hard rockin' zydeco accordion music. If "Allons a Grand Coteau" doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what will. This is a killer recording and should be in everyone's collection. Don't pass this one up!

Vas-y Clifton! (Go Clifton!).......2000-05-19

This is the ultimate zydeco album and with good reason. It's loaded with non-stop party music that's quick to capture the spirit of the genre (and its geographical importance) with incredible power, passion and soul. The album initially earned top reviews from the likes of Rolling Stone and became an essential title. The ensemble performance is superb: Paul Sénégal's guitar, Cleveland Chenier's rub-board, John Hart's tenor sax, Joe Brouchet's bass and Robert St.Julian's drums all assist and add weight to Le Roi's accordion work. All these cuts are downright classic, too! Check out "Allons A Grand Coteau", "Quelque Chose Sur Mon Idée" or "Ma Mama Ma Dit". It's guaranteed to cure your blues and get you snappin' in no time flat. Remarkably, this music has aged so little since it first appeared on (originally) LP and on CD. It's immediacy is stunning, its performances sharp and the production still solid (the album was originally recorded in 1975). It's why Clifton Chenier (and it's pronouced Shay-nee-ay) ended up being crowned the King... Want only 1 zydeco album? Get this. But, believe me, you'll want more and more and more once you listen to this great disc!

Ride 'Em - Right on!.......1999-09-13

"Ride 'Em Cowboy" alone would be worth the price of the CD, but this collection has many winners. Highly addictive! To know Clifton Chenier is to love the CD. Not to know him would be shame.

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Clifton Chenier & Rockin' Dupsee
Clifton Chenier
Manufacturer: Paula Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001X4M
Release Date: 1992-07-16

Tracks:

Night And Day My Love - Clifton Chenier
Everybody Calls Me Crazy - Clifton Chenier
If I Ever Get Lucky - Clifton Chenier
Rockin' Accordion - Clifton Chenier
It Happened So Fast - Clifton Chenier
Goodbye Baby - Clifton Chenier
Worrled Life Blues - Clifton Chenier
Hey Ma Ma - Clifton Chenier
Blues - Rockin' Dupsee
Run Here To Me Baby - Rockin' Dupsee
Woman I Don't Want Your Troubles - Rockin' Dupsee
Things I Use To Do - Rockin' Dupsee
Night And Day - Rockin' Dupsee
You Told Me Baby - Rockin' Dupsee
Ma Negesse - Rockin' Dupsee
She's My Little Girl - Rockin' Dupsee
Rockin' With Dupsee - Rockin' Dupsee
Don't You Want A Man Like Me - Rockin' Dupsee
Dupsee Shuffle - Rockin' Dupsee
Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You - Rockin' Dupsee

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Don't know much about zydeco...
I Don't Know Why
Classic Clifton Chenier

Zydeco Sont Pas Sale
Clifton Chenier
Manufacturer: Arhoolie Records
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ASIN: B0000001NA
Release Date: 1997-04-22

Tracks:

Zydeco Sont Pas Sale (Snap Beans Not Salty)
Blues De Ma Negresse (Blues About My Black Gal)
Cher Catin (Dear Baby)
Going La Maison (Going To The House)
J' Ai Conet, C' Est Pas Ma Femme (I Know She's Not My Woman)
Jole Blonde (Pretty Blonde)
Mo Veux Connaitre (I Want To Know)
Je Suis En Recolteur (I'm A Framer)
Je Me Reveiller Le Martin ( I Woke Up This Morning)
Je Marche Le Plancher I Walk The Floor)
Louisiana Two-Step
Weetee Ta Robe Take Off Your Dress)
Zydeco Two-Step
Breaux Bridge Waltz
Tu Le Ton Son Ton (Every Now And Then)

Customer Reviews:

Don't know much about zydeco..........2006-03-28

I only lived in New Orleans for a year, but this album was given to me long before I moved there. As the title states, I don't know much about zydeco, but having visited many a festival, I can say that I like the sound on this album better than nearly anything I've heard. Someone mentioned something about it being blues...perhaps that is why. Some of the zydeco played at festivals these days sounds more like country or oldies (3/4/waltz timing I suppose). I knew this was a gem when for my bachelorette party we went to the Rock n' Bowl and a decent zydeco band was there and they played half of the songs from this CD...

I think this is a great album to introduce yourself to zydeco...whether you turn out to be a fan of the genre, you will be sure to be a fan of this one.

I Don't Know Why .......2005-02-02

I like Clifton Chenier better when I can't understand him, but I do. I can understand him the least on this album, so it's my favorite. If you like good accordian blues you can't understand, and you can't speak cajun french, then this is the CD for you.

Classic Clifton Chenier.......2000-06-25

Chenier performed and recorded a lot of his music in Cajun French. This is one such recording. Please do not let any language barrier put you off. This is vintage Clifton Chenier, robust, rythmic, pulsating, guaranteed to lift you off your seat and send you perambulating into the night. "Blues De Ma Negress," the second song on the CD, is classic, lilting Zydeco. You don't have to know the lyrics to understand the intent. It's pure Cajun Blues. I actually prefer the classic Cajun-French Zydeco to the "homogenized" brand. It seems purer and more authentic, even though I understand only about a quarter of the lyrics. "J'Ai Conet, C'Est Pas Ma Femme" has a particularly personal meaning for me these days. If you want to hear a down-home, Bayou version of one of the only truly indigenous brands of American Jazz left on the planet, give this recording a try.

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Brilliant
King of the Bayou Blues

Bayou Blues
Clifton Chenier
Manufacturer: Specialty
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Where There's Smoke There's Fire

ASIN: B000000QKG
Release Date: 1989-06-30

Tracks:

Boppin' The Rock
The Things I Did For You
Yesterday
Clifton's Squeeze-Box Boogie
I'm On My Way-Part 1
Eh, Petite Fille
All Night Long
Opelousas Hop
I'm On My Way-Part 2
Think It Over
Zodico Stomp
The Cat's Dreamin'

Amazon.com

Here is where the Chenier legend began. This disc contains the 12 Bumps Blackwell-produced tracks Clifton cut in 1955 in Los Angeles for Specialty Records. On tracks like "The Cat's Dreamin'" or his first hit single, "Ay 'Tète Fey" (which is the Cajun-French form of its better-known title, "Eh, Petite Fille" meaning "Hey, Little Girl"), Chenier's amalgam of blues, R&B, and rock & roll mixed with traditional French dance tunes is still rough but already has the power and drive that he (and his accordion) would later hone to a fine edge. Instrumental greats and mainstays of Chenier's early road bands like tenor saxman Lionel Prevost and guitarist Lonesome Sundown add their considerable talents to these sessions. The starting point for any comprehensive Chenier collection. --Robert Baird

Customer Reviews:

Brilliant.......2007-04-15

Truly a great disc. This is the blues, but unlike any blues you've heard before. My only complaint is its too short.

King of the Bayou Blues.......2002-09-06

In this 1955 session, Clifton Chenier and his Zodico Ramblers laid down track after track of greasy, back-beat shuffles and boogies for the Specialty Record Label. Rolling instrumentals like "Boppin' the Rock," "Zodico Stomp" and "Opelousas Hop" demonstrate Chenier's masterful touch and wonderful delivery on the accordion, an instrument not normally associated with the blues; that said, this recording is unmistakably a blues record.

Ironically, one of the most interesting elements of this recording has little to do with music. "Eh, Petite Fille," offers listeners an example Creole. Creole is a blending of two or more pidgin (simplified) languages resulting in the synthesis of language that is adopted as the "mother tongue" by a group of people. Creole languages are spoken all over the world but the blend of French, English, and several African dialects merged in Louisiana to create a uniquely American language.

Tracks:

Mon Fait Mon L'ide(I Made Up My Mind)
Introduction/You Got Me Crying
Wrap It Up, Baby
What Am I Living For?
My Dog Jumped A Rabbit (Rock House)
All The Things I Did For You
Zydeco Rock
I'm Back Home
Ay-Ye-Yie Zydeco
You Don't Have To Go
Mardi Gras Zydeco
I Got The Blues
Johnny Can't Dance
Tout Chacun Apres Parler (Everyone Is Talking)/Goodnight
'Tit Mama's Zydeco

Customer Reviews:

LIVE AT MY HOME IN LAFAYETTE LA........2004-09-15

THIS IS A GREAT LIVE CD! PLENTY OF FOOT STOMPING ZYDECO HERE! ALSO A GREAT BLUES SONG TITLED'I GOT THE BLUES'!EVERY SONG MEANS SO MUCH TO HIM ,AT THE END OF THE PERFORMANCE , HE SAYS, THE CLOCK ON THE WALL SAYS CLIFTON GOTTA GO, BUT WITH A BIG CROWD ENCORE, HE DOES ONE MORE, THIS I LOVE ABOUT HIM, AND THE LAST SONG KICKS!!!! OVERALL A GREAT LIVE CD, I LOVE IT!

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2 ALBUMS ON 1 CD, GREAT ZYDECO

Zydeco Legend!
Clifton Chenier
Manufacturer: Maison De Soul
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ASIN: B000000DMD
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

Shake It, Don't Break It
Oh, My Lucille
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
Nonc Helaire
You Can't Sit Down
Road Runner
You Used to Call Me
Hot Tamale Baby
Je Me Fu-Pas Mal
Johnny Can't Dance
My Baby She's Gone to Stay
Driftin' Blues
Love Me or Leave Me
Old Time Waltz
What'd I Say
Zydeco Jazz
Mama Told Papa
Tires If Being Alone

Customer Reviews:

2 ALBUMS ON 1 CD, GREAT ZYDECO.......2004-09-15

THIS GREAT CD IS A 2 FOR 1! THE FIRST 10 SONGS ARE FROM THE LP BOOGIE N ZYDECO AND THE NEXT 8 ARE FROM COUNTRY BOY, NOW GRAMMY AWARD WINNER! THE MUSICIANS ARE DIFFERENT ON THE FIRST 10 SONGS, INCLUDING JOHN HART ON SAX, INCLUDING A PIANO PLAYER AND THE MASTER HIMSELF CLIF, ON HARP! AND THE NEXT 8 SONGS HAVE CJ CHENIER, HIS SON, ON SAX.CLIFTON KNEW WHAT TO DO WITH MUSIC AND THESE COMPILATIONS ARE SO SMOOTH!HE HAS A FEW BLUESY SONGS HERE ALSO, LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME AND TIRED OF BEING ALONE!LIKE HE ALWAYS SAID, WHERE WE COME FROM, THE CRAWFISH GOT SOUL!!!!!

Live! at the Long Beach & San Francisco Blues Festivals

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Live! at the Long Beach & San Francisco Blues Festivals
Clifton Chenier & His Red Hot Louisiana Band
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ASIN: B0000001JR
Release Date: 1993-11-30

Tracks:

Introduction & Theme
I've Had My Fun (Going Down Slow)
Zydeco Two-Step
Calinda
What'd I Say?
Party Down
I'm Coming Home
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
They Call Me Crazy
Zydeco Cha Cha
You Gonna Miss Me
Caledonia
New Orleans Beat
Clifton's Zydeco
Let The Good Times Roll
Rock Me
Louisiana Two-Step
Cher Catin
I'm The Zydeco Man

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Frenchin' the Boogie
Clifton Chenier
Manufacturer: Sunny Side
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Binding: Audio CD

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Zydeco's Greatest Hits

ASIN: B000MGVBLE
Release Date: 2007-02-20

Tracks:

Caldonia
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler (Let The Good Times Roll)
Tu Peux Cogner (Mais Tu Peux Pas Rentrer) (Keep-A-Knockin' But You Can't Come In)
Le Blues De La Vache A Lait (Milk Cow Blues)
Moi, J'Ai Une P'Tite Femme (I Got A Woman, I Got A Sweetie)
Tous Les Jours Mon Coeur Est Blue (Every Day I Have The Blues)
J'Veux Faire L'Amour A Toi (I Just Want To Make Love To You)
Choo Choo Ch' Boogie
La Valse De Paris
Shake, Rattle And Roll
Going Down Slow (In Paris)
Aye, Aye Mama
Don't You Lie To Me
I Want To Be Your Driver

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