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Swamp Music Vol. 8: Young Zydeco Desperadoes - Black Creole Sounds of Today

Trikont

US-0163

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  • Released: January 30, 1995

This volume was released back in 1995 and featured the mighty Beau Jocque on the cover, the man who, like Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavis before him, changed the face of zydeco by taking it to another level. Since that time, Jocque has passed away, leaving us his precious few recordings and the music of his peers who were deeply influenced by his Cajun soul on a roll style of zydeco.

Unlike the players that came after him, Jocque and his generation were indebted to and therefore respectful to the Cajun and zydeco traditions they came from. They understood the music of their forbears as a social one, the music they inherited from Chavis, John Delafose, and Chenier was rooted as deeply in the blues and R&B traditions of New Orleans as it was in the Cajun traditions of Evangeline Parish, and therefore played as dance music, party music, music to get drunk to, to laugh to, to do the down and dirty bump to. This did not mean it was empty of musical prowess, far from it, but innovation for Jocque and his contemporaries — all of whom are still on the scene — was secondary to feeling and purpose.

This volume kicks off with two jumping tunes from Robby Robinsons Zydeco Force and Zydeco, respectively, which are featured on no less than four selections here. In You Worry Me the soulful blues of Solomon Burke and Johnnie Taylor are taken into consideration as an intersection point for raw zydeco romp…

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