Clifton Chenier With His Red Hot Louisiana Band "Live At The San Francisco Blues Festival" 1982

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 years ago, with the black-chart success of Chiftin Chenier's 'Aye Tete Fille'. Chenier has ruled the zydeco kingdom as a private fiefdom since then, rebuffing all challengers to the Imperial Margarine-style crown he sports at performances. And Live at the San Francisco Blues Festival captures the Tabasco-fueled power and finesse of his Red Hot Louisiana Band at its peak. It's an accidental album, really taped three years ago by a sound man who set up a couple of mikes near the mixing booth at the outdoor festival and came up with a surprisingly clear crisp mix. Live is an aural documentary, an unadulterated, unretouched portrait of a Clifton Chenier performance complete with between-song pauses and stage patter ("Where we come from the crawfish got soul and the alligators sing the blues"). - Don Snowden, Boston Phoenix, 19 November 1985Clifton Chenier With His Red Hot Louisiana Band:
Clifton Chenier - vocals and accordion / Robert St. Judy - drums / Cleveland Chenier - rubboard / Sherman Robertson - guitar / C.J. Chenier - alto sax / Cesar Warren - trumpet / Alonso Johnson Jr. - bass

traxfromwax:
1. Rockhouse 2. New Orleans Beat 3. Clifton's Zydeco 4. Let The Good Times Roll 5. Rock Me Mama 6. Party Down 7. Louisiana Two Step 8. Calinda 9. I'm Coming Home 10. What'd I Say? 11. Cher Catin 12. The Zydeco Man
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