Rev 20 Redlights
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Rev 20 Redlights wrote on Jun 12 th, 2025 at 11:55pm: An EP! The Chenier track plus several other swamp rock classics in the vein of stuff like Susie Q and Hoodoo Blues
PLUS the title track, an original twangy instrumental, a sixty-years-later companion piece to "Stoned"...
Swamped !
Where am I at ?
Don't bite off me leg ! Don't bite off me arm !  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
also, thanks to iorr's bye bye johnny, a great long article from The Atlantic
The Rolling Stones Play Zydeco
How the legendary rock band discovered the music of Clifton Chenier  https://archive.ph/KyHJXA few excerpts: Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards convene a 3 a.m. jam session at the New York studios of Atlantic Records. On equipment borrowed from Bruce Springsteen, they play “Don’t You Lie to Me”—first the Chuck Berry version, then Clifton Chenier’s Zydeco interpretation
May 3, 2024: the day after the Rolling Stones performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. During their set, the Stones had asked the accordion player Dwayne Dopsie, a son of another zydeco artist, Rockin’ Dopsie, to accompany the band on “Let It Bleed.”
The Stones’ version of “Zydeco Sont Pas Salé” opens with St. Julien, Chenier’s longtime drummer, playing a backbeat with brushes. He’s 77 now, no longer the young man Jagger saw in Watts in 1978. “I quit playing music about 10 years ago, to tell the truth,” he said when we spoke this spring, but you wouldn’t know it by how he sounds on the track. Keith Richards’s guitar part, guttural and revving, meets St. Julien in the intro and builds steadily.
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