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Topic: Zydeco / Cajun

Does anyone have a good source for Zydeco / Cajun chords and lyrics?  There's got to be some out there somewhere, but I can't find them.  It seems like just about everything Zydeco is C, A, D, G in one order or another. 

I was listening to some Geno Delafose earlier and really wanted to try and find the lyrics to Promised Land, but could only come up with tabs to a Grateful Dead song (which may be the same song, but the tabs had no lyrics, just the cool riffs).  Anyway, I found all sorts of studies and important sounding histories and other full-of-themselves studies condescending to how great the music is, a few reviews, but no actual chords or lyrics.

Geno Delafose, C.J. Chenier, etc. 

Let me know if you know of anything like that. 

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Re: Zydeco / Cajun

Buckwheat is the King of zydeco. You should be able to link up with something helpful from these 3 pages;

http://www.google.com/musica?aid=dK7wSy … ;ct=result

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Re: Zydeco / Cajun

Clifton Chenier is the King of the Bayou.
That must mean that CJ is the prince.

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Re: Zydeco / Cajun

there was a band out of new orleans most of them were brothers one was a very large man with arms like tree trunks who went on to have several hits he had tattos all over the band was great damm I just cant recall it was somthing brothers any help?

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Re: Zydeco / Cajun

Russell_Harding wrote:

there was a band out of new orleans most of them were brothers one was a very large man with arms like tree trunks who went on to have several hits he had tattos all over the band was great damm I just cant recall it was somthing brothers any help?

I believe you are thinking of the Neville Brothers - Fantastic stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=depfUO1fmVI

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Re: Zydeco / Cajun

yes I was thinking of them I like them better when they perform alone thanks for jarring my memory chip smile

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Re: Zydeco / Cajun

Zydeco & Cajun music is huge fun. Some of the best dancing music in the world - irresistible rhythms and a sound that makes you happy. I had a friend in Louisiana who fondly referred to it as "Chanky-Chank Music".

Here is some stuff I found - as always the Wikipedia articles have great links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zydeco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_music
http://www.cajunradio.org/cajunlyricsbookssongs.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/breric/cajun.htm
http://www.brucedaigrepont.com/lyrics.htm

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Re: Zydeco / Cajun

Hi Zurf,

We dont get to much Zydeco/cajun Music here So, i tune into this station. Love it.

http://www.live365.com/stations/radiowayne2

I listen to it when im on the PC Here. They play great stuff. Its just the best sound to get the crowd going.

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Re: Zydeco / Cajun

If you guys are ever in New Orleans and like zydeco, you have to go to Rock n Bowl:
http://www.rockandbowl.com/HistoryPAGE/history.html

The best place to hear Zydeco music in the city.  Every Thusday night is Zydeco night and they sometimes have a Zydeco band on a Saturday.  On a recent Thursday night during Jazz Fest they had Buckwheat Zydeco,
C.J. Chenier, Sunpie Barnes, Leon Sam, Li'l Buck Senegal, and Rockin' Dopsie Jr. all on the same night. 

My personal preference is Rockin Dopsie, especially their "Louisiana Music" cd.

http://www.amazon.com/Louisiana-Rockin- … amp;sr=1-1

One night back when the original Dopsie was alive (not jr.) a friend of mine and I took our dates to see the band in a small club in New Orleans.  As the night progressed Dopsie took a shine to our dates and kept buying all of us beers while he chatted them up between sets.  I don't know where he thought the night was headed but he saved us a fortune on alcohol and did us the favor of getting the girls nice and drunk. wink