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Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: TransmaniaconMC ()
Date: June 30, 2025 13:32

Don't forget the excellent piece "Atcha!" by Chris Jagger, featuring "Blow the Zydeco":
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Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: Doxa ()
Date: June 30, 2025 14:32

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DandelionPowderman
A very good album. Tribute albums with lots of different artists often lack consistency, but this one is really good, imo.

And the original versions are awesome thumbs up

Totally agree.thumbs up

- Doxa

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: maumau ()
Date: June 30, 2025 17:26

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Doxa
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DandelionPowderman
A very good album. Tribute albums with lots of different artists often lack consistency, but this one is really good, imo.

And the original versions are awesome thumbs up

Totally agree.thumbs up

- Doxa

+1 smileys with beer

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: gotdablouse ()
Date: June 30, 2025 19:41

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Turd On The Run
The Stones (together with the other Zydeco musicians on the track) just burn this mother to the ground. Jagger at 81 sounds like 31... the guitars chime and churn... I mean... is this FOR REAL!? It is insane... these dudes are OCTOGENARIANS and are still upright and rocking and swinging savagely when most of their generation is dust in the wind or rotting bones on the ground. This is insane... what a Godsend...

Yeah, so much energy, this could have been recorded 40 years ago ! Talking of guitars, I'm really hearing one stand out, sounds more like Ronnie than Keith ?

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Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: ProfessorWolf ()
Date: June 30, 2025 21:07

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gotdablouse
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Turd On The Run
The Stones (together with the other Zydeco musicians on the track) just burn this mother to the ground. Jagger at 81 sounds like 31... the guitars chime and churn... I mean... is this FOR REAL!? It is insane... these dudes are OCTOGENARIANS and are still upright and rocking and swinging savagely when most of their generation is dust in the wind or rotting bones on the ground. This is insane... what a Godsend...

Yeah, so much energy, this could have been recorded 40 years ago ! Talking of guitars, I'm really hearing one stand out, sounds more like Ronnie than Keith ?

put jim price and bobby keys on it i'd have to listen close for a minute to tell its not an exile outtake

and if your talking about the guitar in the left channel it sounds very much like keith to me

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: drewmaster ()
Date: June 30, 2025 22:02

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GasLightStreet
the best of the entire album: Shannon McNally.

Yeah "Tout Le Temps En Temps" is fantastic. And the accordion on it reminds me so much of Bobby Keys. Same swing and swagger!

What a wonderful disc, and still another instance of the Stones bringing the great music of others into public awareness.

Drew

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Date: June 30, 2025 23:32

I don't see this song on their album via Apple Music. The rest of the songs are there.

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Date: June 30, 2025 23:37

OUCH. Forget my message above. I must be having a bad day.

"A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: bye bye johnny ()
Date: July 1, 2025 17:53



Official Audio playlist posted by Valcour Records

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Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: gotdablouse ()
Date: July 1, 2025 19:15

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ProfessorWolf
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gotdablouse
Quote
Turd On The Run
The Stones (together with the other Zydeco musicians on the track) just burn this mother to the ground. Jagger at 81 sounds like 31... the guitars chime and churn... I mean... is this FOR REAL!? It is insane... these dudes are OCTOGENARIANS and are still upright and rocking and swinging savagely when most of their generation is dust in the wind or rotting bones on the ground. This is insane... what a Godsend...

Yeah, so much energy, this could have been recorded 40 years ago ! Talking of guitars, I'm really hearing one stand out, sounds more like Ronnie than Keith ?

put jim price and bobby keys on it i'd have to listen close for a minute to tell its not an exile outtake

and if your talking about the guitar in the left channel it sounds very much like keith to me

Yes the guitar in the left channel is really the only I can hear distinctly and it sounds like a Stratocaster to my ears, so Ronnie ? And the ragged style too...like at Glasto the other day ;-)

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Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: TeddyB1018 ()
Date: July 1, 2025 21:12

The producer said it was KR who jumped in and started playing before the accordion came in, unlike the usual Zydeco protocol. That's the guitar in the left channel.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2025-07-01 21:13 by TeddyB1018.

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Date: July 1, 2025 22:07

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gotdablouse
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ProfessorWolf
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gotdablouse
Quote
Turd On The Run
The Stones (together with the other Zydeco musicians on the track) just burn this mother to the ground. Jagger at 81 sounds like 31... the guitars chime and churn... I mean... is this FOR REAL!? It is insane... these dudes are OCTOGENARIANS and are still upright and rocking and swinging savagely when most of their generation is dust in the wind or rotting bones on the ground. This is insane... what a Godsend...

Yeah, so much energy, this could have been recorded 40 years ago ! Talking of guitars, I'm really hearing one stand out, sounds more like Ronnie than Keith ?

put jim price and bobby keys on it i'd have to listen close for a minute to tell its not an exile outtake

and if your talking about the guitar in the left channel it sounds very much like keith to me

Yes the guitar in the left channel is really the only I can hear distinctly and it sounds like a Stratocaster to my ears, so Ronnie ? And the ragged style too...like at Glasto the other day ;-)

Sounds like classic Keith with Micawber to me, but with a drive and attack I haven't heard for years.

The guitar is tuned in open F, though, so that's a first.

Check out Mel Belli's YouTube video for a more detailed analysis.

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: MelBelli ()
Date: July 1, 2025 22:40

Yes, definitely Keith and definitely a Telecaster.

I’ve tried in vain to hear Ronnie on the track at all.

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: MelBelli ()
Date: July 1, 2025 22:56

And here is my short little video lesson. Thanks for the plug, DP!

[youtube.com]

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: ChrisL ()
Date: July 1, 2025 23:03

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MelBelli
And here is my short little video lesson. Thanks for the plug, DP!

[youtube.com]

Cool, thanks for that.

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: TeddyB1018 ()
Date: July 1, 2025 23:29

Yes, thank you.

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: GasLightStreet ()
Date: July 2, 2025 01:22

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DandelionPowderman
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gotdablouse
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ProfessorWolf
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gotdablouse
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Turd On The Run
The Stones (together with the other Zydeco musicians on the track) just burn this mother to the ground. Jagger at 81 sounds like 31... the guitars chime and churn... I mean... is this FOR REAL!? It is insane... these dudes are OCTOGENARIANS and are still upright and rocking and swinging savagely when most of their generation is dust in the wind or rotting bones on the ground. This is insane... what a Godsend...

Yeah, so much energy, this could have been recorded 40 years ago ! Talking of guitars, I'm really hearing one stand out, sounds more like Ronnie than Keith ?

put jim price and bobby keys on it i'd have to listen close for a minute to tell its not an exile outtake

and if your talking about the guitar in the left channel it sounds very much like keith to me

Yes the guitar in the left channel is really the only I can hear distinctly and it sounds like a Stratocaster to my ears, so Ronnie ? And the ragged style too...like at Glasto the other day ;-)

Sounds like classic Keith with Micawber to me, but with a drive and attack I haven't heard for years.

The guitar is tuned in open F, though, so that's a first.

Check out Mel Belli's YouTube video for a more detailed analysis.


At the Hit Factory, the star pulled out his iconic butterscotch Telecaster, the same guitar he deployed on “Brown Sugar” and “Start Me Up.”

“The track starts and he does every damn thing you can do to get fired from a zydeco band,” Adcock recalled. “He started before the accordion, (played) louder than everybody else, just cutting it all up.

“The kid in me that had always wanted to try that experiment and never had the guts was like, ‘Yes!’ It immediately sounded like rock ‘n’ roll, just killer. His instincts were, of course, dead-on.”

The end result “still sounds like a great south Louisiana dance track, but it sounds like the Stones. Keith is the first thing you hear.”

Ronnie Wood would later record his guitar parts in London.



[www.nola.com]

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Date: July 2, 2025 02:37

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MelBelli
Yes, definitely Keith and definitely a Telecaster.

I’ve tried in vain to hear Ronnie on the track at all.

The very last lick in the end. Apart from that I can't hear him at all.

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: MelBelli ()
Date: July 2, 2025 02:56

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DandelionPowderman
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MelBelli
Yes, definitely Keith and definitely a Telecaster.

I’ve tried in vain to hear Ronnie on the track at all.

The very last lick in the end. Apart from that I can't hear him at all.

The lick with the natural harmonics?

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: z ()
Date: July 2, 2025 16:10

I hear rhythm guitar on the right side too.

"A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: bye bye johnny ()
Date: July 2, 2025 18:24

‘He made the dust fly!’ Mick Jagger and others on 100 years of Clifton Chenier, the king of zydeco

Whether playing the Royal Albert Hall or a rooster fight, Chenier’s scorching Creole blues blew minds. As a tribute album is released, starry admirers and family members remember one of history’s great live performers

Garth Cartwright
2 Jul 2025


Clifton Chenier (Paul Natkin/Getty Images)

"Clifton Chenier was one of the most influential musicians to come out of Louisiana,” Mick Jagger tells me. “He turned so many people on to the wonderful, free spirited dance music of zydeco. He was a true original, a trailblazer.” Jagger acknowledges that while no music style can be attributed to one artist, “there is not a zydeco band who has not followed the template Chenier created”.

Jagger is not engaging in hyperbole here: Clifton Chenier’s swaggering, accordion-driven sound introduced the Creole music of rural Louisiana to the world – now known as zydeco, the name derived either from the Creole pronunciation of haricots, or possibly a west African word for music-making. Created by the US’s poorest communities, zydeco is very much dance music, and concerts were once held outside to “make the dust fly”, says Chenier’s grandniece, Sherelle Chenier Mouton. At its most elemental, it’s made with an accordion, a rubboard – a steel washboard played with beer bottle caps attached to the player’s fingers to scrape percussive rhythms – and the human voice, and shares characteristics with music made in Haiti, Brazil and other African diaspora nations.

Chenier adapted zydeco into an offshoot of R&B – “French blues”, according to blues legend Jimmie Vaughan – and this funky, swampy music is now beloved across the American south and internationally. Even Beyoncé nodded to zydeco and her “Creole mama” with her song Formation. “Uncle Clifton’s music brings every kind of people from every background together to dance the two-step,” Mouton says.

Chenier was born 100 years ago this month, and died from kidney disease aged 62 in 1987. To celebrate the centenary there’s a biography, a forthcoming Smithsonian Folkways box set and a truly starry tribute album: Tribute to the King of Zydeco has the likes of Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Jimmie Vaughan and the Rolling Stones joining zydeco and Cajun musicians to play Chenier songs.

“I first discovered his music by buying Chenier LPs in New York jazz and blues record stores in the late 1960s,” says Jagger. “The Stones always really enjoyed listening to his special blend of Cajun dance music. And still do.”

Indeed, the Stones open Tribute to the King with their version of Zydeco Sont Pas Salés, which has Jagger singing in “Louisiana French” (a Creolised French patois) while Richards and Wood rock with abandon. This might just be the loosest, rawest Stones recording since Exile on Main St.

“Instantly they made the track, and zydeco, their very own style,” says CC Adcock, a Lafayette-based guitarist-producer who oversaw the Stones session. “Keith used bendy licks to navigate and emphasise the idiosyncratic traditional accordion chord changes. Ronnie instinctively held down a funky boogie rhythm part in a way that a modern zydeco guitarist might.”

Adcock called on Robert St Julien, Chenier’s drummer, and Cajun accordionist Steve Riley, to serve as “honorary Stones” and ensure a strong Louisiana flavour. “It’s a profound honour to collaborate with the Rolling Stones,” says Riley. “The fact that they are a part of this is testament to the impact of Clifton’s music.”

Born to impoverished sharecroppers outside Opelousas, Louisiana, Chenier was Creole: the Black people of the US south-west who speak French, or whose ancestors did. His father Joseph played accordion at dances (“French music” or “la-la” as zydeco was then called). Chenier cut sugar cane on plantations before working for the petrochemical industry, playing accordion and singing for his fellow workers. Blues and Caribbean influences spiced his sound and he released his first hit in 1955, Ay Tete-Fee, a success that enabled Clifton and band to tour nationally with Etta James and Little Richard.

“I came out a hole, man,” Chenier told Louisiana writer Ben Sandmel in 1983. “I mean out the mud; they had to dig me out the mud to bring me into town. All my people speak French and I learned it from them. A lot of people ‘shamed of speakin’ French, but not me. The old generation had [zydeco] but it died out. I brought zydeco back.”

But he also made an attempt at straight R&B, which failed, and by the early 1960s, Chenier was reduced to working alongside a drummer playing rowdy bars in Houston’s Frenchtown. It was here in 1964 that bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins brought Chris Strachwitz, the founder of Arhoolie Records. Strachwitz began recording him, initially releasing 45s for the local market, before his 1966 debut album Louisiana Blues and Zydeco launched him from Houston bars to Newport folk festival, Montreux jazz festival and the Royal Albert Hall. “People ask me how I can get up on the bandstand and play four hours without stopping,” he told Sandmel. “It’s because I’ve always been a hard worker, always. When I get up there, I’m up there, no half-steppin’.”

“I saw him in New Orleans in the 70s, then at a high school dance in the Watts neighbourhood outside LA,” Jagger says. “A night to remember. He was quite magnificent.” Jagger notes how the Watts concert was packed with transplanted Louisiana Creoles all dancing the two-step and, when post-concert he was introduced to Chenier as “from the Rolling Stones” Clifton thanked him for “writing nice things about my music” – he was aware of Rolling Stone magazine but completely unaware of the band.

Ann Savoy, a musician and chronicler of Cajun and Creole culture, saw him around the same era, in early 1970s Cankton, Louisiana at a place called Jay’s Lounge. “There were rooster fights going on out the back, gumbo was cooking, people were dancing, it was a hot, sultry night, and the music was smoking.”

Jon Cleary, raised in Kent and long resident in Louisiana, transforms I’m On the Wonder into a deep soul ballad on the tribute album – and remembers that by the early 1980s, Chenier’s playing was still just as hot.

“I moved to New Orleans after leaving school,” says Cleary, “and I saw Clifton every chance I got. He’d be up there sweating in a suit and tie, a giant crown on his head – the king of zydeco! – and the groove was relentless. He’d be wailing a slow blues, a waltz, and then bust out into straight zydeco. And zydeco was a different beast: two beats, two chords – just him on accordion and his brother Cleveland churning out wild funky grooves on a metal washboard.”

Chenier would release a dozen albums on Arhoolie and establish an international platform for zydeco. Esteemed documentary film-maker Les Blank directed 1973’s Hot Pepper, which documents Clifton playing Creole clubs; Paul Simon sang of Chenier on Graceland; Rory Gallagher honoured him with the song The King of Zydeco. In 1984 Chenier won a Grammy, a huge honour for the often downtrodden Creole people.

In the early 20th century, parts of the US and Canada introduced legislation banning children from speaking French in public schools, but while “French music” had endured underground in Creole communities, it was Chenier’s success that encouraged others to follow his lead and consequently zydeco thrives today, with rappers and dance beats adding to zydeco’s musical gumbo. The video to Beyoncé’s Formation references zydeco trail rides: a popular weekend community gathering involving horse riding, barbecues and dancing to zydeco. What Chenier helped shape is now an emblem of the Black south, alongside Cajun culture, created by the white descendants of French ancestors.

“Historically we’d say, down here, if you’re white and you play the accordion, then you play Cajun. And if you’re Black and you play the accordion, then you play zydeco,” says Joel Savoy of Valcour Records. Cultures that were once drawn along racial lines “are very blurred now, the two scenes overlap a lot, both musician-wise and audience-wise. Cajun and zydeco music coexist very happily.”

Indeed, on Tribute to the King the cream of Louisiana’s zydeco and Cajun musicians accompany the famous guests. There’s also Chenier’s son CJ, who inherited his father’s accordions and band, and Mouton, granddaughter of Chenier’s brother Cleveland, who plays rubboard, the ribbed steel washboard Cleveland and Clifton invented for performing.

“Picking up my grandfather’s washboard after he passed I wondered if I could play that thing,” Mouton says. “Well, I strapped it around my neck, turned on some of Uncle Clifton’s music and started playing along. Now my three-year-old son, Levi, has his own washboard and joins me on stage every chance he gets. Guess it’s safe to say the legacy will live on for generations to come.”

A Tribute to the King of Zydeco is on Valcour Records. Celebrating the Centenary of Clifton Chenier (with Ruben Moreno) takes place at Maverick festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk, 4-6 July.

[www.theguardian.com]

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: gotdablouse ()
Date: July 2, 2025 19:54

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DandelionPowderman

Sounds like classic Keith with Micawber to me, but with a drive and attack I haven't heard for years.

The guitar is tuned in open F, though, so that's a first.

Check out Mel Belli's YouTube video for a more detailed analysis.

Huh, Keith has indeed not played like that for years, possibly decades ! I'm going to listen again closely with headphones.

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Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: MonkeyMan2000 ()
Date: July 2, 2025 22:52

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gotdablouse
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DandelionPowderman

Sounds like classic Keith with Micawber to me, but with a drive and attack I haven't heard for years.

The guitar is tuned in open F, though, so that's a first.

Check out Mel Belli's YouTube video for a more detailed analysis.

Huh, Keith has indeed not played like that for years, possibly decades ! I'm going to listen again closely with headphones.

It‘s classic Keith riffing on that track. He still does it all the time live with mostly the same kind of licks during HTW, ADTL and other open G songs…

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: matxil ()
Date: July 3, 2025 17:38

I don't think I like Zydeco very much.
But I like the Stones contribution, mainly because it sounds less like Zydeco and more like the Stones. Mick sings it well and there are all these typical Keith like licks and phrases and small tempo delays and all that. It's got his fingerprints all over the piece.

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: GasLightStreet ()
Date: July 4, 2025 06:53

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matxil
I don't think I like Zydeco very much.
But I like the Stones contribution, mainly because it sounds less like Zydeco and more like the Stones. Mick sings it well and there are all these typical Keith like licks and phrases and small tempo delays and all that. It's got his fingerprints all over the piece.

Zydeco is extremely challenging to tolerate. A lot of songs are the same - accordion blasting away, shuffle beat. It's almost noisy music.

There are exceptions, though. Zachary Richard kills it. Jimmy Buffett sings backing vocals on this 1990 release Who Stole My Monkey and Jimmy had Zachary open for him on a few tours starting in 1990 for Jimmy's JUMP UP tour.

Zachary has some moving music, a lot of albums, but WOMEN IN THE ROOM and SNAKE BITE LOVE feature English singing, and songs like No French, No More, the accordion rocking and harmony laiden My Nanette, Shades Of Blue (if someone else were to ever have a song that could fit on STICKY FINGERS it's possibly this song), as well as Come On Sheila, Sunset On Louisianne and Crawfish, among quite a few others, are exceptional songs.




Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: resotele ()
Date: July 6, 2025 18:13

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GasLightStreet

Zydeco is extremely challenging to tolerate. A lot of songs are the same - accordion blasting away, shuffle beat. It's almost noisy music.


Zydeco isn't my favourite way to play the Blues or r'n'b either (The Rolling Stones were a R'n'B Band, not a R'n'R Band, ask Keith, or you should have asked Brian about this), but it is a legitime way to play the Blues. A lot of the songs in Blues are the same... as in Zydeco.

But what can be wrong with an album featuring so many of my musical heroes ; above all The Rolling Strones, then Lucinda Williams, John Hiatt, Taj Mahall, Steve Earle, Sonny Landreth ...

Resotele

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: Bosmatic1 ()
Date: July 6, 2025 20:02

I think they mix the guitars the way they do so it’s hard to tell whether it’s Keith or Ronnie. They do love to weave.

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: 1962 ()
Date: July 7, 2025 13:53

This recording is like a bootleg treasure from the 70s. I can't get enough of it.
It evokes the best Rolling Stones era. Beautiful.

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Date: July 7, 2025 15:03

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Bosmatic1
I think they mix the guitars the way they do so it’s hard to tell whether it’s Keith or Ronnie. They do love to weave.

On this track they don't, though. Keith is high in the mix and Ronnie is practically inaudible.

Re: "A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco" featuring the Stones and more, out June 27
Posted by: Lien ()
Date: July 7, 2025 18:48

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