Extras

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• Excerpt by Ben Sandmel from Zydeco! about the meaning of "Creole", "Zydeco", and "Cajun"
• Excerpt from Michael Tisserand's The Kingdom of Zydeco.
• Excerpts from Andrew Cornett's dissertation summarizing the literature on Zydeco music
• Biographical sketch of Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco
• Clifton Chenier's albums
• Photos by David Simpson, Jiro Hatano, Claire Myers, Maria Oneide Willey, and Robert Willey
• Interview with Michael Doucet of BeauSoleil about how they started playing French music from Louisiana [ part1 ] and the composition of Zydeco Gris Gris [ part2 ]
• Interview with Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, transcribed and translated by Barry Ancelet, French and English
• Interview with dancing Zydeco Joe (Citizen)
• Producers' notes from Karl Fontenot and Robert Willey

[ From La La to Zydeco ]