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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
Carrier's father and grandfather both played zydeco music, and his cousins recorded under the name The Carrier Brothers.He was taught to play accordion by his father, Roy Carrier Sr., and played with his father's band at age 12, first on accordion and then on drums.
Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), [1] [2] was an American musician known as a pioneer of zydeco or Creole music. He sang and played the accordion. Chenier won a Grammy Award in 1983. [1] Chenier was known as the King of Zydeco, [1] [2] [3] and also billed as the King of the South. [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 ...
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]