Rolling Stones: A new song cover by Clifton Chenier is coming
THE Rolling Stones they will return with a new song that may surprise occasional fans: “Zydeco Son Pas Sales“, A song with text in French Creolo made popular by the Zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier by Opelousas, Louisiana.
The song was included in the All-Star album “Tribute to the King of Zydeco“, Which will be released on June 27 to celebrate Chenier’s hundredth birthday.
Even the accordionist of Louisiana Steve Riley, appointed to the Grammy, appears in the Stones song.
“Zydeco Sont Pas Sales” is the first musical novelty of the Rolling Stones from “Hackney Diamonds” of 2023. Previously, in 2020 they published the independent single “Living in A Ghost Town“.
The proceeds of “A Tribute to the King of Zydeco” will benefit a new scholarship in memory of Clifton Chenier at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette.
Other tribute songs see the participation of Steve Earle, Jimmie Vaughan, Lucinda Williams, John Hiatt And Taj Mahal.
The interest of the Rolling Stones for Chenier and for Louisiana music is profound. “Clifton had a great influence on me,” said Mick Jagger in Songlinees. “We listened to him for the first time around 1965, when we went to the United States and took his records with the Arhoolie label. We met for the first time with his band in Los Angeles, I think, and I like the way he takes a blues piece and adapts him to his style”.
Lafayette’s saxophonist Dickie Landry organized the meeting, which according to the Kingdom of Zydeco di Michael Tisserand It happened in the interval of a Chenier apparition in 1970 in South Central La.
There was a moment of hilarious initial confusion, however, when Landry told Chenier that Mick Jagger of Rolling Stones wanted to meet him. Tisserand says that Chenier replied: “That magazine made a nice article on me.” Soon, for Chenier the time came to return to the stage of the auditorium of the High School verbum.
“Suddenly a group of people arrived with autograph sheets,” Landry still recalls. “Jagger starts to back away and they pass by to reach Clifton.”
Stars of Louisiana music as Dr. John, Aaron Neville, Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural and Michael Doucet They worked with the Stones in the studio. Their 2016 Rootsy album “Blue and Lonesome” includes three songs of Little Walternative of Louisiana.
Rolling Stones found time to see Zydeco legends Boozoo Chavis And Beau Jocque Before a 1994 concert at the Louisiana Superdome, paying $ 5 to the door.
More recently, they have performed “Let it Bleed“With Lafayette’s accordionist Dwayne Dopsie At the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival of 2024.
