Zydeco | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Putumayo World Music
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 10003
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 160
UPC: 790248016023
EAN: 0790248016023
ASIN: B00003OP0X
Release Date: January 25, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Creole Farmers Stomp - The Creole Zydeco Farmers | | • | Co Fa - Keith Frank & The Soileau Zydeco Band | | • | You're No Good For Me - Rosie Ledet | | • | What You Gonna Do? - Beau Jocque | | • | I'm In Love - Nathan And The Zydeco Cha Chas | | • | Burnin' Flames Special - Jude Taylor & His Burning Flames | | • | Lula Lula Don't You Go To Bingo - Boozoo Chavis | | • | My Girl Josephine - Queen Ida & Her Zydeco Band | | • | Calinda - Clifton Chenier | | • | I'm On The Wonder - Buckwheat Zydeco | | • | Bye-Bye Mon Neg - Geno Delafose And French Rockin' Boogie | | • | Hoochie Coochie - Joe K K And Zydeco Force | | • | Stay In Or Stay Out - Pass The Dutchie - Chris Ardoin & Double Clutchin' |
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Amazon.com
From the get-go, Putumayo Presents Zydeco is the down-and-dirtiest most-rockin' Saturday night at a sweaty bayou dance hall or juke joint a non-native can experience. Born of the Creole community in Louisiana's backwaters and moving outward to Texas and California, Zydeco bumps, grinds, and is a wang dang doodle of a big time. Youngblood Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band rip through "Co Fa" with their trademark double-kick beat, the low-end-amped-up sound making heartbreak sound like a raunchy roll in the hay. Rosie Ledet's "You're No Good for Me" is a wailer for all lovers scorned, featuring thudding bass, wiry guitar lines, and sax in a one-upmanship dance with her accordion. Beau Jocque growls, Jude Taylor trades accordion licks with his band's organist, and Queen Ida reigns supreme on "My Girl Josephine." As the Creole Farmers sing on the opening cut, "We gonna party 'til the cows come home!" --Paige La Grone
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
Xenophiles Unite! February 13, 2000
Kevin L. Nenstiel (Kearney, Nebraska)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Putamayo is a good way to get your hands on xenophile music. This latest is a very good album to start one out on zydeco music, comme ca. Zydeco may be an acquired taste for someone who, unlike me, hasn't listened to blues, African music, or Cajun sounds, elements of all of which are in evidence on this CD. Still, if you're willing to take a stab and listen to something too few people ever hear anymore, you'll be very will rewarded.
Excellent! December 12, 2005
Megan Romer (Breaux Bridge, LA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Putumayo's recordings are sort of iffy for those who are really into the music that they compile.... some of them are phenomenal, some of them are disappointing. This one is fortunately one of the former. This CD plays like a who's who of Zydeco music, several tempos and song styles (waltz, two-step and blues, the main three rhythm patterns of zydeco music) are presented and all of the songs are truly classics.
If you're just getting into zydeco, this is the album for you! As I said, it's a who's who of zydeco music, so you can listen through and see which tracks you like, which will help you make informed decisions about which full-length single-band albums to buy. If you are a longstanding zydeco fan, you may well have most of these cuts on CDs you already own, so you could just make yourself a mix CD, but save yourself the trouble and pick this one up.
I can't for the life of me figure out how Putumayo managed to make such a spot-on zydeco collection but only a very mediocre Cajun music collection.
This is the one to buy... September 20, 2004
Stephen Cabral (New England)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you only buy one zydeco collection, this is the one to buy. Putumayo is a label that specializes in world music. All their releases have beautiful artwork and include a booklet with notes about each song. This release is a great compilation of recent and current and most of it rocks. A sampling of the more popular musicians include...Beau Jocque...Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas...Boozoo Chavis...Queen Ida...Clifton Chenier...Buckwheat Zydeco...and Chris Ardoin does a cover of "Pass the Dutchie"
Smoking! September 20, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm a native northerner who didn't know beans about Zydeco until I went to a Swamp Romp festival and was blown away by BooZoo's Magic Sounds. This CD was recommended to me as a great introduction to zydeco. It has become my favorite CD. I have since bought many other zydeco CDs but none as good. Rosie Ledet's "You're No Good For Me" is just killer! Even my 7-year-old asks to hear it over and over. I've "discovered" many great Zydeco musicians through this CD, such as Nathan and the Cha Chas. This music definitely makes you put your troubles on the back burner and dance.
This is the very best zydeco compilation October 12, 2007
C.J. Leach (Midwest, United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have a few zydeco CD's, and this one is far and away my favorite. Hardly a song in the bunch that I can't enjoy again and again.
If you are familiar with zydeco music, you can read Amazon's song list above and there's no need for me to rehash it. If you're not familiar, then no need for a song by song description either, but I'll simply describe zydeco as "happy music" (there are blues tunes in the mix) with cajun roots in the rural Louisiana swamplands. It's from the heart and has a definite rock flavor. (It is not brassy New Orleans rhythem and blues).
This collection is the cream of the crop. If you've got a rock 'n roll heart, you need to check this out. Make your first listen on good equipment with the volume turned up a little and you'll be hooked.
Whether or not you know already know zydeco, BUY THIS CD. You'll like this one and I'm very confident in the recommendation.
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