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Hear the new Rolling Stones cover song “Zydeco Sont Pas Sales”
The Rolling Stones released “Zydeco Sont Pas Sales”, their first song since their acclaimed 2023 album “Hackney Diamonds”. That track was originally recorded by Clifton Chenier, the pioneer of Zydeco, a music genre created in rural Southwest Louisiana by French speaking Afro-Americans. It mixes African and Caribbean rhythms, Blues and R&B. The main instruments are the accordion and washboard.
The track is part of Chenier’s tribute “Tribute to the King of Zydeco,” album which celebrates his 100th birthday. “We never just listened to the blues. “Zydeco has been a part of what we always listen to, the Mississippi blues, and it’s not a long way from there to Louisiana. We were always listening to stuff from down there. You listen to American music wherever it came from, even if it was in French,” Keith Richards told Rolling Stone.
Hear the new Rolling Stones cover song “Zydeco Sont Pas Sales”
Besides The Rolling Stones, the tribute record also features names like Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Jimmie Vaughan and Taj Mahal. The record was produced by Steve Barlin and Joe Savoy.
Clifton Chenier was born in Opelousas, Louisiana back in 1925 and started his musical career in 1954. He was active until 1987, when he passed away from diabetes-related kidney disease, at the age of 62. A few years before he won a Grammy Award.
He had a prolific career and released many influential albums and singles.
“Tribute to the King of Zydeco” tracklist
Side A
- Zydeco Sont Pas Salés- The Rolling Stones and Steve Riley (Clifton Chenier, Flat Town Music/Tradition Music)
- Easy Easy Baby- Charley Crockett and Nathan Williams Sr. (Clifton Chenier/ Tradition Music)
- Hey ‘Tite Fille- Taj Mahal and Keith Frank (Clifton Chenier/ Sony/ATV Songs LLC)
- I’m On The Wonder- Jon Cleary and Curley Taylor (Clifton Chenier/ Tradition Music Co.)
- Just Like A Woman- Steve Earle and Anthony Dopsie (Claude Demetrius and Fleecie Moore/ Cherio Corporation)
- Release Me- Lucinda Williams, Tommy McLain and Keith Frank (Eddie Miller, James William
- Pebworth, Robert Gene Yount/ Roschelle Publishing Co and Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music)
Side B
- Hot Rod- David Hidalgo and CJ Chenier (Clifton Chenier/ Flat Town/Tradition Music)
- Tout Le Temps En Temps- Shannon McNally, Molly Tuttle and Keith Frank (Clifton Chenier/Flat Town Music/Tradition Music)
- My Soul- Jimmie Vaughan, Johnny Nicholas and Steve Riley (Clifton Chenier/ Tradition Music Co.)
- Ay Ai Ai- Ruben Ramos with Los Texmaniacs and Augie Meyers (Clifton Chenier/ Flat Town/Tradition Music)
- I May Be Wrong- Marcia Ball and Geno Delafose (Clifton Chenier/ Tradition Music Co.)
- I’m Comin’ Home- CJ Chenier and Sonny Landreth (Clifton Chenier/ Flat Town Music/Tradition Music)
Bonus Downloads
- You Used To Call Me- John Hiatt, Sonny Landreth and Roddie Romero (Clifton Chenier/ Flat Town Music)
- Why Did You Go Last Night?- Kam Franklin, AJ Haynes and Roddie Romero (Clifton Chenier/ Tradition Music)
