Something as exotic and danceable as Zydeco could only have originated in Louisiana. A mixture of Cajun music, blues and rhythm & blues, zydeco is the music of the Creoles of Louisiana, the French speaking African-Americans of the region.
| Les Blues De Voyages ('34, Bluebird) Amadie Ardoin & Dennis McGee - Zydeco Vol. 1 - Arhoolie Records |
| Les Haricots ('66) Alphonse "Bois-Sec" Ardoin & Canray Fontenot - Cajun Blues - Les Blues De Bayou - Melodeon Records |
| Les Haricot Sont Pa Sale ('61) Albert Chevalier - Zydeco Vol. 1 - Arhoolie Records |
| Old Time Zydeco ('83) Ambrose Sam's Old Time Zydeco - Zydeco Vol. 2 - Arhoolie Records |
| They Call Me Good Rocking ('61) Herbert Sam - Zydeco Vol. 1 - Arhoolie Records |
| Shake What You Got ('81) Preston Frank's Swallow Band - Zydeco Vol. 2 - Arhoolie Records |
| Washboard Choo-Choo ('69) Wild Bill's Blue Washboard Boys - Baby Yum Yum - Flyright Records |
| Paper In My Shoe ('54, Goldband) Boozoo Chavis - The Lake Charles Atomic Bomb - Rounder Records |
| Forty One Days ('55, Goldband) Boozoo Chavis - The Lake Charles Atomic Bomb - Rounder Records |
| Crawfish Song ('85) Fernest & The Thunders - Zydeco Thunder - Greybeard Records |
| Zydeco Stomp ('81) Fernest & The Thunders - Zydeco Stomp! - JSP Records |
| Hey Chere 'Tite Fille ('85) Fernest & The Thunders - Zydeco Thunder - Greybeard Records |
| Louisiana Stomp ('50, Elko) Clifton Chenier - Zydeco Vol. 1 - Arhoolie Records |
| Aye-Te Te Fee ('55) Clifton Chenier - Zoidico Blues & Boogie - Specialty Records |
| Squeeze Box Boogie ('55) Clifton Chenier - The Specialty Story Vol. 4 - Specialty Records |
| Black Gal (?) Clifton Chenier - single - Flashback Records |
| Tu Le Ton Son Ton (Every Now & Then) ('70) Clifton Chenier - King Of The Bayous - Arhoolie Records |
| Dog Hill ('91) Chuubby Carrier & The Bayou Swamp Band - Boogie Woogie Zydeco - Flying Fish Records |
| My Feet Can't Fail Me Now (?) Buckwheat Zydeco - Birthday Present: The Tenth Anniversary Stony Plain Sampler - Stony Plain Records |
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