#zydeco — Public Fediverse posts

@grantpotter @accordionnoir
Be interesting to know if it’s just availability, or cost or style?

Some of the nicest one-row so called #Cajun accordions have been custom built in #Louisiana over the years

Not so, larger three-rows, or fully chromatic piano #accordion like Clifton Chénier played that made it possible to mix in blues and R&B to create #zydeco

Early one-row 🪗 couldn’t play #blues easily so it got left out of most Black American music 🤷🏽

#Zydeco is the exception with backstory

@grantpotter @accordionnoir

@grantpotter @accordionnoir
🪗 didact 2:

And I think Boozoo Chavez was mostly known for playing three-row diatonic #accordion, not the one-row that became more popular with younger #Creole #zydeco players
https://antonesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hey-do-right

@grantpotter 🙏🏼
Great selection of #AccordionBandcamp recommendations in this Bandcamp Weekly feature on #Creole and #Cajun 🪗 music
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/cajun-creole-accordion-music-guide

I’ll be getting some of these artists to play on @accordionnoir radio including Marcella Simien ❤️‍🔥🪗
https://marcellaandherlovers.bandcamp.com/music

#accordion #zydeco #Louisiana #Texas #Memphis

I made a #MardiGras playlist of some great #NewOrleans music using #Bandcamp’s new playlist feature. Enjoy responsibly!

https://bandcamp.com/christinkallama/playlist/mardi-gras

#music #zydeco #jazz #BrassBand #MardiGrasIndians

I made a #MardiGras playlist of some great #NewOrleans music using #Bandcamp’s new playlist feature. Enjoy responsibly!

https://bandcamp.com/christinkallama/playlist/mardi-gras

#music #zydeco #jazz #BrassBand #MardiGrasIndians

I made a #MardiGras playlist of some great #NewOrleans music using #Bandcamp’s new playlist feature. Enjoy responsibly!

https://bandcamp.com/christinkallama/playlist/mardi-gras

#music #zydeco #jazz #BrassBand #MardiGrasIndians

I made a #MardiGras playlist of some great #NewOrleans music using #Bandcamp’s new playlist feature. Enjoy responsibly!

https://bandcamp.com/christinkallama/playlist/mardi-gras

#music #zydeco #jazz #BrassBand #MardiGrasIndians

“Sa M’Appel Fou (They Call Me Crazy)” from Clifton Chenier’s classic 1976 zydeco album Bogalusa Boogie. #cliftonchenier #zydeco #creole #nolamusic #vinyl #recordcollection

Glimmer Twins nepřispívají na tribute alba. V případě pocty #Zydeco akordeonistovi #CliftonChenier Mick Jagger odložil svoji pařížskou fráninu a udělal si domácí úkol. V písni "Zydeco Sont Pas Salés“ zpívá dokonalou kreolskou francouzštinou z poloviny století.
Jagger se poprvé dostal na Chenierův koncert v tělocvičně střední školy v LA v roce 1978: "Vzpomínám si, že si Clifton myslel, že jsem z časopisu Rolling Stone."
#Music #VelkýSummitPlaylist #DoporučenoPanemPudinkem
https://youtu.be/SmVHAvPPcAg

Just saw that the historic Grant Street Music Hall in #Lafayette Louisiana, housed in an old Fruit Warehouse built circa 1898 has found new ownership, and is still offering live #LousianaMusic , ranging from blues & #zydeco , country as well as contemporary #HipHop and other entertainment. There's street #foodtrucks outside for the hungry late night crowd, and a new owner promising more security to curb the occasional fist fights and parking lot violence... What's not till like?

https://youtu.be/gGCFL_UtqYA

Archivní klenot z cernejpudink.cz: Představujeme vám krále hudebního stylu zydeco Cliftona Cheniera. Narodil se před 100 lety. Z akordeonu vydoloval zvuk Louisiany – od ropných polí po Grammy. Příběh odvahy a nezdolného ducha, který stále rezonuje.
#Music #10YearsOfPuddingRevisited #CliftonChenier #Zydeco #NOLA
https://www.cernejpudink.cz/2016/07/30/clifton-chenier-jizansky-kral-zydeca/

‘He made the dust fly!’ Mick Jagger and others on 100 years of Clifton Chenier, the king of zydeco

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/02/mick-jagger-and-others-on-100-years-of-clifton-chenier-the-king-of-zydeco

#TheGuardian #Music #Zydeco #CliftonChenier

Tonight’s episode of @accordionnoir radio will praise the protesters in #LosAngeles standing up (with an occasional #accordion) against abuses of power 🪧

Also #Zydeco rubboard master Cleveland Chenier’s birthday — the day before mine
(approaching #CliftonChenier’s 💯th birthday, June 25, 1925)

And a farewell to #BrianWilson accordion aficionado 🏖️

AccordionNoir.org

@colorblindcowboy @thereisnocat
Pretty sure Woody’s recordings are mostly over on Smithsonian/Folkways,(for now)

Some at the Library of Congress issued by Electra/Rounder in the 90s and are streaming but the extensive notes are missing 😤

#Folkways keeps the old Arhoolie Records albums available — including tons of #zydeco #conjunto & #cajun #accordion because unlike the rest of the US folk revival, Austrian-born Chris Strachwitz was not afraid of the squeezebox

https://folkways.si.edu/search?query=Arhoolie

#NowPlaying #music #musique #Albumoftheday #zydeco #neworleansmusic

Artist: Chubby Carrier And The Bayou Swamp Band
Album: Back To My Roots/2013

https://album.link/s/6H9pllDgNi5uHLCaqnTLP3

#NowPlaying #music #musique #nowlistening #Albumoftheday #Zydeco #neworleansmusic

Artist: C.J. Chenier
Year: 1995

https://album.link/s/7Ah3AFGapHxIxGJLJx13Ut

Song of the Day November 14 2024

In remembrance of the birth of Stanley Joseph Dural Jr. bka Buckwheat Zydeco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwheat_Zydeco

Buckwheat Zydeco - “Rock Me Baby"

https://youtu.be/BIsSgO-QYzA?si=jeXmFlB9HJEzcDGh

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #November14 #StanleyJosephDuralJr #BuckwheatZydeco #RockMeBaby #Zydeco #NewOrleans #Jazz #Music #LivePerformance #MusicVideo #2010s

@angelastella @UkuleleG3orge
I’m convinced if/when the next #accordion revival (upheaval?) comes, Brazilian #forró will be the next #zydeco

If only we all spoke Portuguese 🇧🇷🪗

Forró Da Nêgah
by Nêgah Santos
#AccordionBandcamp from New York and São Paulo 🤩
https://ngahsantos.bandcamp.com/album/forr-da-n-gah 😎

@SrRochardBunson @rnf

After the great fall from the heights of the 1950s when they were importing 200,000 accordions a year for sale in the US

By 1976 it was 13,000 😞 It was a hard time

But in Dec 1987 there was a whole issue of #Keyboard Magazine dedicated to accordions with #WeirdAl on the cover

Inside it had dozens of global artists from all styles, #experimentalMusic #classicalMusic #zydeco #PopMusic #norteno

Amazing

Tired: year-end lists

Wired: catching up on all the albums you missed this year and writing up the best ones that came out in September, including

Ashley McBryde
Joan Osborne
Margo Cilker
Rebecca Porter
No-No Boy
Louis Michot
Lindsay Lou

https://adobeandteardrops.com/2023/12/the-best-americana-of-september-2023-ashley-mcbryde-joan-osborne-will-johnson-and-more.html

#Americana #AltCountry #CountryMusic #FolkMusic #FolkRock #Cajun #Zydeco #LoFi #AshleyMcBryde

Tired: year-end lists

Wired: catching up on all the albums you missed this year and writing up the best ones that came out in September, including

Ashley McBryde
Joan Osborne
Margo Cilker
Rebecca Porter
No-No Boy
Louis Michot
Lindsay Lou

https://adobeandteardrops.com/2023/12/the-best-americana-of-september-2023-ashley-mcbryde-joan-osborne-will-johnson-and-more.html

#Americana #AltCountry #CountryMusic #FolkMusic #FolkRock #Cajun #Zydeco #LoFi #AshleyMcBryde

Tired: year-end lists

Wired: catching up on all the albums you missed this year and writing up the best ones that came out in September, including

Ashley McBryde
Joan Osborne
Margo Cilker
Rebecca Porter
No-No Boy
Louis Michot
Lindsay Lou

https://adobeandteardrops.com/2023/12/the-best-americana-of-september-2023-ashley-mcbryde-joan-osborne-will-johnson-and-more.html

#Americana #AltCountry #CountryMusic #FolkMusic #FolkRock #Cajun #Zydeco #LoFi #AshleyMcBryde

Tired: year-end lists

Wired: catching up on all the albums you missed this year and writing up the best ones that came out in September, including

Ashley McBryde
Joan Osborne
Margo Cilker
Rebecca Porter
No-No Boy
Louis Michot
Lindsay Lou

https://adobeandteardrops.com/2023/12/the-best-americana-of-september-2023-ashley-mcbryde-joan-osborne-will-johnson-and-more.html

#Americana #AltCountry #CountryMusic #FolkMusic #FolkRock #Cajun #Zydeco #LoFi #AshleyMcBryde

Every time I feel low I only need to remind myself that Keith Frank recorded a zydeco version of “Walking On Sunshine” and instantly I’m reminded of just how goddam awesome the world can really be.

#Zydeco #WalkingOnSunshine #KatrinaAndTheWaves #Accordion #NowListening #CoverSongs

https://youtu.be/PHzPNKu0WNo?si=_I3D6BTeCI2U2vRG

@dancarkner @accordionnoir
They released a fine book about the UCLA Frontera project
https://arhoolie.org/new-book-on-the-arhoolie-foundations-strachwitz-frontera-collection/
#norteno #LosTigresDelNorte 🐯 🪗 #MexicanAmericanMusic

They also recently released an amazing video series of interviews Ann Savoy did for her looong awaited sequel 📚 about #cajun and #creole #zydeco musicians
https://arhoolie.org/ann-savoy-announcement-2/

Special Memorial #ChrisStrachwitz Episode of @AccordionNoir Radio

Sharing bits of a 2014 interview with Chris talking about his years working with #Accordion greats like #CliftonChenier in the early days of #Zydeco

And the monumental work Chris did at #ArhoolieRecords sharing #Cajun #Creole #Conjunto #Norteno #Bluegrass and #Trad #FolkMusic

Thanks Chris for appreciating accordions, unlike many #FolkRevival peers who [he said] just wanted to “bang on guitars” 🎸❤️‍🔥🪗
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2023/05/11/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2023-05-10-chris-strachwitz-accordion-man/

#ChrisStrachwitz was rare among American folk revivalists for appreciating the #Accordion before it had it's first "revival" in the 1980s (led by artists he helped bring to attention)

He laughed telling me how much #AlanLomax hated accordions (Mentioned in my #AccordionRevolution 🪗📚🤓)

Thanks to clearer ears like Chris’s, we have reissues like these of #CliftonChenier
https://folkways.si.edu/clifton-chenier/louisiana-blues-and-zydeco/2005-edition ❤️‍🔥🪗
#Folkways #Zydeco #Louisiana #BlackMusic #Creole @Pipistrelle

#ArhoolieRecords founder and remarkably influential #FolkMusic collector/producer/promoter #ChrisStrachwitz has died at age 91

Incredibly influential in the diffusion of #Zydeco #Cajun #Conjunto and tons of other #folk and #blues music
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/chris-strachwitz-arhoolie-records-founder-dead-obituary-1234730941/
🙏🏼 @Pipistrelle

Kouri-Vini: The Louisiana Creole language, a lot of French mixed with West African language.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230228-kouri-vini-the-return-of-the-us-lost-language
#via:languagelog #language #louisana #creole #french #zydeco #music #+

March 11 is the Great #Accordion Birthday Conjunction
🌞 🪗 🌙
Born on this day:
Amédé Ardoin (1898), Lawrence Welk (1903), Astor Piazzolla (1921), and Flaco Jimenez (1939) !!!!

#Tango #Argentina #bandoneon #polka #Conjunto #acordeon #norteno #zydeco #creole #Louisiana

I feel like Marjorie Taylor Greene is ruining everything. (Except zydeco music — nothing can ruin zydeco music.) She’s an idiot with a platform, and that’s never worked out well. See: Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, Geraldo Rivera, Jerry Springer. #zydeco #marjorietaylorgreene #racist #idiots #JerrySpringer #Geraldo

@accordionnoir
#Funaná is music that uses the #accordion + hand #percussion (🪇 #MaracasEmoji 2023!) in Cape Verde 🇨🇻

It definitely shows musical ties across the #AfricanDiaspora

But interestingly, the accordion didn’t come to similar musics like #Louisiana #zydeco, #Brazil’s #forró, #cumbia in #Colombia, or other African influenced cultures until the 1860s or so

So the traditions developed in isolation from each other in many ways