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Remembering Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco

Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 20 December 1987

THE ONLY WAY Angelenos could get a true glimpse of the musical world of Clifion Chenier, who died last weekend at 62, was to attend one of the numerous benefit dances featuring the zydeco kingpin at Verbum Dei High School in South Central Los Angeles.

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