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In 2011, the category Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album was eliminated along with thirty others due to a major overhaul by the Recording Academy. [29] Four additional categories in the American Roots Music field were eliminated (Best Contemporary Folk Album, Best Hawaiian Music Album, Best Native American Music Album, Best Traditional Folk Album).
Pages in category "Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
While its repertoire includes hundreds of traditional Cajun, Creole and zydeco songs, BeauSoleil has also pushed past constraints of purely traditional instrumentation, rhythm, and lyrics of Louisiana folk music, incorporating elements of rock and roll, jazz, blues, calypso, and other genres in original compositions and reworkings of ...
Zydeco music is typically played in an uptempo, syncopated manner with a strong rhythmic core, [3] and often incorporates elements of blues, rock and roll, soul music, R&B, Cajun, and early Creole music. Zydeco music is centered on the accordion, which leads the rest of the band, and a specialized washboard, called a vest frottoir, as a ...
Lay Your Burden Down is a studio album by Buckwheat Zydeco, released in 2009 through Alligator Records. [3] The album ranked number five on Billboards Top Blues Albums. In 2010, the album earned Buckwheat Zydeco the Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album.
The Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 as the Gramophone Awards, [1] to recording artists for releasing albums in the regionally based traditional American music, including Hawaiian, Native American, polka, zydeco and Cajun music genres.
Bogalusa Boogie is a studio album by the American zydeco musician Clifton Chenier. [1] [2] It was released in 1975 via Arhoolie Records. [3]The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011. [4]
Zydeco Junkie (Swampadelic Records, 2010) Live at Knuckleheads, Kansas City (Swampadelic Records, 2007) Bayou Road (Swampadelic Records, 2006) Ain't No Party Like a Chubby Party (Swampadelic Records, 2005) Take Me to the Zydeco (Swampadelic Records, 2001) It's Party Time (Right Click Records, 1999) Too Hot to Handle (Gulf Coast Entertainment Co ...