Today’s Daily Dose comes from Louisiana. Interesting intro by Johnny. I couldn’t even name 28 instruments (much less play them)….but here’s Doug Kershaw.. Since we’re in Louisiana, let’s listen to the most awesome Aldus Roger and the Lafayette Playboys performing the Hick’s Wagon Wheel Special… Read More
The Daily Dose today features the late Beau Jocque performing One Kiss in Austrailia. In the late 1980s Andrus Espre became Beau Jocque and put together his fantastic Zydeco band, The Hi Rollers. Sadly he died young in 1999, but he left us some really… Read More
Your Daily Dose tonight is some music from a Zydeco band called Fernest and the Thunders, led by a button accordion player named Fernest Arceneaux. Mr Arceneaux is gone now, but I remember seeing him and his band live here in Toronto back in the… Read More
Let’s go back in time a few years to a place called Dog Hill. Your Daily Dose tonight comes from the late great Boozoo Chavis and his Magic Sounds. http://youtu.be/D1XVVOSBaXU I got a paper in my shoe… http://youtu.be/9B3lfqbiwX0 Johnny Billy-goat http://youtu.be/lVAgkX4g8TU
Way back in the 80s, there were a few Zydeco bands coming up to Toronto. Queen Ida played up here a couple times at the Bamboo and maybe at the Horseshoe and once I saw Terence Simien and his group down at Harbourfront. The best… Read More
Here’s the late Beau Jocque…
Here’s Clifton Chenier and his band. Video quality is poor but in my mind it doesn’t matter. Enjoy. For a guy who played live a lot, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of video material kicking around. Here he is many years earlier…
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