Clifton Chenier * King Of Louisiana Blues & Zydeco (Box) [New LP] created_bt Allegro maestoso

Allegro maestoso

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Clifton Chenier * King Of Louisiana Blues & Zydeco (Box) [New LP] created_bt Allegro maestosoIn South Louisiana, Clifton Chenier (1925 1987) grew up hearing his father play a style of music known as La La at house dances held in Black French Creole communities. It had a percussive and syncopated sound, played in spare combinations of an accordion and a washboard used to scrub out a rhythm. After picking up accordion as a curious teenager, Chenier soon brought into this sound the rhythm and blues that dominated radios and jukeboxes, crafting a