Five Questions With Nathan Williams Of Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas

OffBeat Magazine

June 2018

- Dan Willging

Now in their thirty-third year, Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas are a topflight zydeco band with a signature style that’s closer to Buckwheat Zydeco and founding father Clifton Chenier than anything nouveau hip-hop contemporary. Over the course of eight albums on Rounder and 2013’s self-released A New Road, Nathan Williams has written a bevy of originals ranging from bluesy to rollicking that have weathered the test of time.

Your brother Dennis Paul Williams tells me that when you were a teenager, you were sick and dreamt you would become a zydeco accordion player. Is that what happened?

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