PEL Presents NEM#243: Corey Ledet's Eclectic Zydeco
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Corey has released many of zydeco music since 2004, and mixes his dedication to tradition (even recording a recent album in Louisiana Creole) with his love of many types of music.
We discuss "J'ai Parti dans la Campagne" (and listen at the end to "Outro") from his new release, Live in Alaska; "That Girl Wanna Dance" from the Grammy nominated Nothin' But the Best (2012); and "Way Back Home," a Jazz Crusaders (Wilton Felder) cover recorded for 3 Years 2 Late (2003). Intro: "Boudin Man (Remix)" from Destiny (2013). More at coreyledet.com.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nakedly Examine Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters. My name is Mark Lintonmeyer. |
| 0:14.0 | My guest for episode 243 is Corey Lade, aka Corey Ladezidico, or Corey Ladee and his Zydico band. |
| 0:22.7 | Though he started out as a drummer, he is best known for his accordion work and is a band leader, |
| 0:27.4 | singer, songwriter, you're right now hearing Budan Man from his 2013 album Destiny. |
| 0:33.0 | He has, I believe, eight albums under his own name, and is about to release his ninth live |
| 0:37.2 | in Alaska, and we'll talk about the song Jaipartis d'an la Campagna which is in Creole again |
| 0:43.1 | that's the live version it was originally recorded for his 2012 accordion dragon album |
| 0:47.9 | we'll also talk about that girl want a dance from his 2012 album nothing but the best |
| 0:53.4 | and then discuss how he adapts cover tunes |
| 0:56.6 | for his style, looking at a track from his first album, 2003's Three Years Too Late. The song is |
| 1:03.3 | way back home, which is a Jazz Crusaders cover. We'll conclude by listening to the outro from |
| 1:09.3 | the new album Live in Alaska, which is largely improvised. |
| 1:12.7 | For more information, see Corey Leday.com. For more about this podcast, see NakedlyexaminedMusic.com. |
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| 1:25.6 | slash nakedly examined music. |
| 1:36.4 | All right, so I will play a little bit of a Budan man, the remakes from Destiny 2013 to warm people up. Is that kind of a signature song? I mean, what is, I looked that up, |
| 1:42.2 | and it refers to something culinary. What is that |
| 1:45.2 | actually about? Buda has a creole, like, almost like a sausage. So it's got the casing and it has |
| 1:51.8 | like rice in there, ground up meat. It could be pork or mostly it's pork. Sometimes they |
| 1:57.9 | stuff with like seafood stuff, maybe shrimp, crawfish stuff like that. So it's a Creole food. That's an original, right? Where did that phrase? I'm the Budin man or you tell me. Well, I learned that song from another Zidico group out of Houston. They called the Zidico Dots. Do you know what the origin of that was? Is a folk song, or is there a specific originating artist for that? |
| 2:19.5 | The guy that wrote it, his name is Joseph Rassion. |
| 2:22.2 | Like I said, it's a Creole food. |
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