The Rolling Stones Play Zydeco
The story I’d heard was that Mick Jagger bought his first Clifton Chenier record in the late 1960s, at a store in New York’s Greenwich Village. But when we talked this spring, Jagger told me he didn’t do his record shopping in the Village. It would have been Colony Records in Midtown, he said, “the biggest record store in New York, and it had the best selection.” Jagger was in his 20s, not far removed from a suburban-London boyhood spent steeping in the American blues.