Rockin' Dopsie and the Zydeco Twisters (1984)

Recorded March 24, 1984 at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans. In January 1988, four years after this video was shot in a steamy New Orleans barroom, Alton Jay, Rockin' Dopsie' Rubin was crowned the new, King of Zydeco', following the death of the music's ever name, Clifton Chenier. As can be seen here, however Dopsie had already been dressing regally for some time (and he had in fact just appointed himself dauphin by naming a 1987 album, The Crowned Prince of Zydeco' so perhaps it was only fitting that this majestic title should pass to him, particularly as Chenier had himself guided Dopsie's career some thirty-odd years earlier.