Clifton Chenier - King Of Louisiana Blues & Zydeco (Box) [CD] recent_bt The Grip Weeds continue to

The Grip Weeds continue to expand: Musical and sonic experimentation abounds

filtered through hook-y earnestness and crunchy six-string bluster

Freaking Out the Neighborhood

soft serve

the North Carolina quartet's first record in 6 years

Clifton Chenier - King Of Louisiana Blues & Zydeco (Box) [CD] recent_bt The Grip Weeds continue toIn South Louisiana, Clifton Chenier (1925 1987) grew up hearing his father play a style of music known as La La at house dances held in Black French Creole communities. It had a percussive and syncopated sound, played in spare combinations of an accordion and a washboard used to scrub out a rhythm. After picking up accordion as a curious teenager, Chenier soon brought into this sound the rhythm and blues that dominated radios and jukeboxes, crafting a