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In South Louisiana, Clifton Chenier (1925-1987) grew up hearing his father play a style of music known as La La at house dances held in Black French Creole communities. It had a percussive and syncopated sound, played in spare combinations of an accordion and a washboard used to scrub out a rhythm. After picking up accordion as a curious teenager, Chenier soon brought into this sound the rhythm and blues that dominated radios and jukeboxes, crafting a new style that would be called zydeco. In the 1950s, he recorded for Elko, Specialty, and Chess, and joined national package show tours with stars like Little Richard and Etta James. A decade later, Chenier was quietly settled in Houston, the big stages seemingly behind him. But one rainy Saturday night at a Houston neighborhood bar, Chenier’s cousin Lightning Hopkins introduced him to Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records, where zydeco and Clifton Chenier would find a new home and champion.  

King of Louisiana Blues & Zydeco is a 4 CD/6 LP retrospective box set assembled in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Chenier’s birth. The set features a chronology of Chenier’s landmark work with Arhoolie and other labels, alongside a healthy dose of previously unissued gems. The 160-page book includes photos, posters, and other graphic artifacts from the Strachwitz Collection and deeply researched liner note essays by Grammy award-winning writer Adam Machado, public folklorist and radio host Nick Spitzer and longtime Louisiana journalist Herman Fusilier, along with a moving personal remembrance by Clifton’s son, Zydeco musician C.J. Chenier. The set is the first release on Arhoolie since the label became a part of Smithsonian Folkways.  

With music and storytelling and abundant visual imagery, this set demonstrates Clifton Chenier's life as a transformative artist -- from his earliest days practicing in the barn back home, to his reign as the undisputed King of Zydeco. 

Clifton Chenier - "Calinda (Live from Austin City Limits)"

Clifton Chenier - "Party Down (At the Blue Angel Club) (Live)"

Clifton Chenier - "My Mama Told Me" (Live)

Clifton Chenier - "Baby What You Want Me to Do (Live)"

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Louise

Destination

Little Gears

An Ice Age

Sad and Beautiful World

warm rain.

Goodbye To Language

Satie

SONG: Regrets 
ARTIST: Perry Frank 
ALBUM: Soundscape Box I 
(Psychonavigation Records 2014) 


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www.facebook.com/perryfrankmusic 
www.youtube.com/user/perryfrankchannel2 
soundcloud.com/perryfrank 
www.instagram.com/perryfrankmusic
credits
from Soundscape Box I, track released October 28, 2014 
Song written, recorded and mixed by Perry Frank in “Homeland Studios” in May 2013. 
Mastered by Marco Usai in May 2014. 

Perry Frank: guitars, piano, sounds and visions.

Soundscape Box 1

Regrets

Sun Set / Sun Rise : two evocative and expansive ambient experiences
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Tendrils is a stunning new meditative instrumental by ambient guitarist Matt C White (Realizer). His previous release on Echoes Blue Music (Sun Set / Sun Rise) was described as "guiding people into a more peaceful and zen like state" by Rural Sounds, while Tome To The Weather Machine wrote that "the way Realizer is able to sculpt distortion, feedback and the pure golden tones ringing through hits a particular sweet spot in ambient music."

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Tendrils

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