Louisiana musician Clifton Chenier would have been 100 on June 25, and a new tribute album featuring The Rolling Stones ...

Joel Savoy doesn’t remember exactly when he first heard the music of Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco—the electrified and ...

A special, 7-inch vinyl of the Stones’ single, “Zydeco Sont Pas Sale,” drops June 25, Clifton Chenier’s birthday. It features ...

The Rolling Stones, Williams, Charley Crockett, and more salute the zydeco accordionist, who would've turned 100 this year, ...

To honor what would have been his 100th birthday, a tribute album honoring Louisiana zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier will be ...

Once seen as a regional dance-music curiosity, zydeco has turned into an international art form. For proof, look no further ...

Chenier came to be known as the King of Zydeco. He toured Europe; won a Grammy for his 1982 album, I’m Here! ; performed at ...

This vibrant Lafayette artist will appear on a record bringing together two greats: the Rolling Stones, and King of Zydeco ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier, Smithsonian Folkways will release a box set on Arhoolie ...

The New Orleans Jazz Museum will celebrate the 100th birthday of Clifton Chenier with tickets benefitting a scholarship fund.

Adcock, like Mick Jagger, cut his musical molars on the accordion blues and boogie of Opelousas native Clifton Chenier, the heralded King of Zydeco. Adcock is also a producer on an album that ...

Chenier, who died in 1987 of diabetes-related kidney disease, would have turned 100 on June 25. To commemorate that number — and help raise awareness of him and his music — Savoy and his co ...