Track Listing

1. Two Step de Eunice - Amédé Ardoin
2. Broken Hearted - Zydeco Force
3. Tu M'As Fait Brailler: You Made Me Cry - John Delafons, Geno Delafose, The Eunice Playboys
4. Oh Yes I'm Going Away - Ambrose Sam
5. Grand Prix - C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band
6. Bernadette C'Est My 'Tit Creole - Keith Frank
7. Grand Mary's Two Step - Boozoo Chavis & the Majic Sounds
8. Femme de Doight - Queen Ida & The Bon Temps Zydeco, Al Rapone
9. C-Key Blues - Little Latour's Sulphur Playboys
10. Louisiana Down Home Blues - C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band
11. Zydeco Á Carriére - Freres Carrirre
12. Doopsie Cajun Stomp - Rockin' Dopsie & the Cajun Twisters
13. Everything on the Hog - Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas
14. Hot Tamale Baby - Buckwheat Zydeco
15. Cher Catin - Clifton Chenier & His Red Hot Louisiana Band
16. I'm Gonna Take Care of Your Dog - Rosie Ledet
17. Give Him Cornbread - Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers
18. Hack a 'Tit Moreau - Canray Fontenot
19. Ardion Two Step - Chris Ardoin & Double Clutchin'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #418801 in Music
• Released on: 2000-03-21
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
This excellent introduction to the bluesy, accordion-driven world of Louisiana zydeco was compiled by Michael Tisserand, author of an equally admirable book on the subject titled The Kingdom of Zydeco. Selections range from the early ragged-but-revolutionary fiddle and accordion duets of the Carriere brothers and the duet of Canray Fontenot and Bois Sec Ardoin to such third-generation reinvigorators as Zydeco Force and Chris Ardoin and Double Clutchin'. Always more about the dance hall than the recording studio, zydeco greats such as Clifton Chenier (and his son C.J.), Queen Ida, and Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas made music concerning such everyday concerns as edible hog parts, broken hearts, and the many varieties of Saturday-night fever. Even with a pop sensibility as refined as Clifton Chenier's or Beau Jocque's, though, it's all about rhythm, and this compilation practically quakes with it. --Richard Gehr

Customer Reviews

Zydeco Kingdom CD
Shipped fast. If you love great classic Zydeco two-stepping down-home music, this is for you. Gotta have it and turn up the volume and dance, if you can.