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‘I’ve got two big ones’
In 1992 I started a degree in civil engineering at the University of Surrey. I had no idea until the day I arrived that I would be sharing a room with Carol, also a civil engineering student. We had very different tastes in music. I loved the Cure and Led Zeppelin and Carol loved dance music. We created a mixtape of songs that we both liked – no mean feat, but we had to do something as I kept playing 29 Palms by Robert Plant and it drove Carol mad.
‘I’ve got two big ones’ Photograph: Rachel Bowden
Zydeco music combines Cajun and Creole traditions for unique sound
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
The fan cooling off the zydeco band whirled right in front of Nathan Williams face. So close, he clipped his baseball cap on a blade. But nothing deterred Williams from seeing his zydeco idol, Clifton Chenier. I ve been around zydeco all my life. Matter of fact, when Clifton Chenier was playing I was a little bitty boy in St. Martinville, I was like eight, nine, ten years old he was playing at a club but I was too young so I couldn’t get in. So I had to stand on a washing machine to watch him through the window.
Zydeco music combines Cajun and Creole traditions for unique sound
Lafayette Daily Advertiser
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
The fan cooling off the zydeco band whirled right in front of Nathan Williams face. So close, he clipped his baseball cap on a blade. But nothing deterred Williams from seeing his zydeco idol, Clifton Chenier. I ve been around zydeco all my life. Matter of fact, when Clifton Chenier was playing I was a little bitty boy in St. Martinville, I was like eight, nine, ten years old he was playing at a club but I was too young so I couldn’t get in. So I had to stand on a washing machine to watch him through the window.
My New Orleans
01/29/2021
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity and Nonesuch/Warner Records announce the release of a remastered, special vinyl edition of the 2005 record
Our New Orleans, the star-studded tribute album original recorded and released in the months after Hurricane Katrina that raised money to build the Habitat Musician’s Village and The Ellis Marsalis Center for Music. The two-LP set, also available digitally, includes five previously unreleased tracks including Walking By The River by the late Dr. John. A previously unseen video of Dr. John and his band performing “Walking by the River” in a New York City studio, during September 2005, is available here, as are album orders.