In a Blue Mood

These reviews originally appeared in the June 1978 Buffalo Jazz Report (Issue 52). I do not recall if I purchased these or received review ...

This edition of Take 5 brings us a short playlist of Clifton Chenier, The King of Zydeco who left us so many years ago. Zydeco is the music ...

Various Artists Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 Third Man Records To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festiva...

Todd Mouton Way Down in Louisiana: Clifton Chenier, Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp Pop Music University of Louisiana at Lafayette Just releas...

This is my blues column from the December 1976 Buffalo Jazz Report which had Dexter Gordon on the cover to promote his appearance at the ...

Pictured on the cover is Lazy Lester The English Ace label has just issued one of a series of anthologies of recordings from legendary...

Rhino has issued Zydeco Dynamite, The Clifton Chenier Anthology , which is a two compact disc, 40 track retrospective of Clifton Chenie...

While some of today’s zydeco sounds not far removed from hip hop and rap, it is a joy to find artists who music is still inspired and shaped...

There is a myth that there was very little new blues of note recorded in the 1970s. The fact is labels like Alligator, Delmark and Blind P...

If you are looking for a holiday present for the blues and/or zydeco fan, then the superb, Texas Zydeco is a book that should be considered...

One of the sons of the late Rocking Dopsie (Alton Rubin), Dwayne ‘Dopsie’ Rubin is one of several sons that followed their legendary father ...

There was Ann Arbor Blues Festival. Musically, it was an event the likes of which we will never see again. Here is a story from an Ann Arbo...