C.J. Chenier
The Howlin' Wolf
907 S Peters St
New Orleans, LA 70130
Apr 28, 2024
8:00 PM CDT
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🎉🎸 Brace yourselves for the ultimate blues extravaganza! 🌟✨ Get ready to have your socks knocked off because the ALL-STAR BLUES BASH is grooving into New Orleans on April 28th, 2024, for an unforgettable night of music magic featuring a lineup thatll make your heart skip a beat! 🎷🎵And whos bringing this phenomenal party together? None other than the Chicago Music Hall of Fame, Chicago Music Award Winner, and founder of the All-Star Blues Bash - Wayne Baker Brooks! 🎩🎸 The ALL-STAR BLUES BASH NOLA 2024 featured artists to appear: Kenny Neal, Todays most famous Louisiana Blues Legend is a 5-time Blues Music Award Winner, 3-time GRAMMY Nominee. Born and raised in Louisiana as one of the strongest modern proponents of Baton Rouge swamp blues, Kenny is a second-generation southern Louisiana bluesman who is cognizant of the regions venerable blues tradition and imaginative enough to steer it in fresh directions. 🎸💥 CJ Chenier, the GRAMMY award nominated Crown Prince of Zydeco himself, was born and raised in Louisiana CJ is a ready-made party with deep roots in Americana music. He delivers soulful vocals along with masterful accordion-driven Zydeco and Blues that will make you get up and dance 🌟🎶 Jason Ricci, is a harp extraordinaire and a multiple award-winning jazz, funk, and blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter. This 2x Blues Music Award winner is one of the most influential, recorded, celebrated, interviewed, and famous harmonica players working in the world today with an amazing and unique take on modern-day harp playing. Marc Stone, the legendary New Orleans Music Legend finely-crafted Blues-infused Rock/Americana original songs ooze with the vibes hes absorbed performing with legends of Funk, New Orleans RnB, Blues, and Zydeco, as well as his work with cutting-edge Americana phenoms, Jam band heroes, Hip-Hop artists, singer-songwriters and African drum masters. He is known all over New Orleans to get you funkified🌟🎶 Wayne Baker Brooks (host), is an American blues and blues-rock guitarist and singer who is considered one of todays top guitarists whose signature style combines powerful vocals with liquid fire guitar playing that honors his rich blues heritage yet effortlessly expands the boundaries of the genre. Born and raised in Chicago, he is the youngest son of Louisiana-born Blues Master Lonnie Brooks (a staple at the NOJF in the 1990s). Wayne is the recent Chicago Music Award Winner Best Blues Entertainer, Chicago Blues Hall of Fame Inductee, and a HistoryMaker Music Maker Success! Past editions of the All-Star Blues Bash have seen Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, Grammy Winners, platinum-selling artists, and blues masters grace the stage, including the likes of Elvin Bishop, Big Head Todd, Bobby Rush, Pine-Top Perkins, Chris Thomas King, Shannon Curfman, and Waynes father the late, great Lonnie Brooks! 🔥🎉 So, if youre ready to dance the night away, sing your heart out, and witness history in the making, mark your calendars, grab your friends, and join us at the legendary venue The Howlin Wolf at 8 pm
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Laura
February 11th 2024
Fabulous show !! Great music … a fun time was had by all … either listening, dining or dancing the night away
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The Howlin' Wolf has a long history as one of New Orleans' finest locally owned and operated venues. Named after the legendary bluesman Chester "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett, th...
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C.J. Chenier Biography
C.J. Chenier was literally born into the musical tradition of southwest Louisiana and Texas Zydeco, a chugging, accordion-led blend of French Creole and African-derived influences. Born the son of great Zydeco king Clifton Chenier, the first Grammy Award winning musician of his genre, C.J. was totally immersed in R&B, funk and jazz from childhood. Despite his family ties, or maybe because of them, C.J. wasn't terribly interested in his father's music as a teenager. A natural player, C.J. won a scholarship to study music at Texas Southern University and spent his college years exploring his own musical style.
Coming into adulthood, C.J.'s interest in the music of his ancestors grew and after college graduation he joined his father's legendary Red Hot Louisiana Band on the road. After his father's death in 1987, C.J. assumed leadership of the band. While he continued to develop his personal accordion style, C.J. also gradually began grafting on influences from his boyhood. As C.J. explains, "I play it the way I play it. All my father really told me was to do the best I could do with my own style."
For The Desperate Kingdom of Love, C.J. reached back into his father's songbook and recorded a collection of some of the most urgent and heartfelt songs of his career, including "Bogalusa Boogie", a tribute to the Clarence Gatemouth Brown, the revered blues legend who died only days after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home. A eclectic mix of covers like Hank Williams' "Lost on the River" and the devastating P.J. Harvey ballad "The Desperate Kingdom of Love" add to the somber canvas while Van Morrison's "Comfort You" offers healing. But a C.J. Chenier recording, like a traditional New Orlean's funeral, would not be complete without a tremor of hope for the future and a few great dance tunes. C.J. composed several classic songs (with Denise Labrie and Gerard Chenier) for the album including the plaintive "I've Been Good To You Baby" and the swinging mea culpa "Who's Cheatin' Who?"
Inspired by Bob Dylan's 1960's collaboration with The Band, C.J. Chenier sought out an existing working band to back him during these sessions. Rounder Records recording artists The Tarbox Ramblers fit the bill with a combination of tight musical camaraderie from years of touring and a deep knowledge of American roots music history. Augmented by session pianist Joe Deleault, the musicians quickly rehearsed and recorded these songs in the cavernous Room A of Boston's Q Division Studios in the autumn of 2005. Inspired by the 1950's Rudy Van Gelder jazz recordings for Blue Note, and Zydeco albums of Clifton Chenier, the songs were recorded live with everyone playing together in the studio with minimal overdubs.
Aside from performing and recording with his own ensemble, C.J. has worked with an impressive array of collaborators, including Paul Simon and The Gin Blossoms. A self-described "road dog", C.J. will be touring extensively in North America for 2010.
Read MoreComing into adulthood, C.J.'s interest in the music of his ancestors grew and after college graduation he joined his father's legendary Red Hot Louisiana Band on the road. After his father's death in 1987, C.J. assumed leadership of the band. While he continued to develop his personal accordion style, C.J. also gradually began grafting on influences from his boyhood. As C.J. explains, "I play it the way I play it. All my father really told me was to do the best I could do with my own style."
For The Desperate Kingdom of Love, C.J. reached back into his father's songbook and recorded a collection of some of the most urgent and heartfelt songs of his career, including "Bogalusa Boogie", a tribute to the Clarence Gatemouth Brown, the revered blues legend who died only days after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home. A eclectic mix of covers like Hank Williams' "Lost on the River" and the devastating P.J. Harvey ballad "The Desperate Kingdom of Love" add to the somber canvas while Van Morrison's "Comfort You" offers healing. But a C.J. Chenier recording, like a traditional New Orlean's funeral, would not be complete without a tremor of hope for the future and a few great dance tunes. C.J. composed several classic songs (with Denise Labrie and Gerard Chenier) for the album including the plaintive "I've Been Good To You Baby" and the swinging mea culpa "Who's Cheatin' Who?"
Inspired by Bob Dylan's 1960's collaboration with The Band, C.J. Chenier sought out an existing working band to back him during these sessions. Rounder Records recording artists The Tarbox Ramblers fit the bill with a combination of tight musical camaraderie from years of touring and a deep knowledge of American roots music history. Augmented by session pianist Joe Deleault, the musicians quickly rehearsed and recorded these songs in the cavernous Room A of Boston's Q Division Studios in the autumn of 2005. Inspired by the 1950's Rudy Van Gelder jazz recordings for Blue Note, and Zydeco albums of Clifton Chenier, the songs were recorded live with everyone playing together in the studio with minimal overdubs.
Aside from performing and recording with his own ensemble, C.J. has worked with an impressive array of collaborators, including Paul Simon and The Gin Blossoms. A self-described "road dog", C.J. will be touring extensively in North America for 2010.
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