Buckwheat Zydeco to Bobby Jindal: 'You don't Represent Us'! To Bernie Sanders: 'Tres Bien' [View all]

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Buckwheat was not pleased that Jindal used his music for his WH run announcement and tweeted his displeasure calling Jindal's use of his music 'not cool'.

Buckwheat Zydeco to Gov. Bobby Jindal: Don't use my music

First Neil Young, now Buckwheat Zydeco and both are fans of Bernie Sanders:

@The_Gambit Using our music is not cool at all #BobbyJindal. @SenSanders using our "Make A Change" to make his announcement is tres bien!

— Buckwheat Zydeco (@buckwheatzydeco) June 25, 2015

Followed by another tweet:

Let us cleanse our palate of #BobbyJindal by remembering the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, on his 90th birthday!

— Buckwheat Zydeco (@buckwheatzydeco) June 25, 2015

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Buckwheat Zydeco's camp said Gov. Bobby Jindal's use of his music "is not cool at all."

At Jindal’s campaign announcement rally June 24, organizers played songs by several Louisiana artists to entertain the crowd before the main event, including Buckwheat Zydeco’s 1990 cover version of the standard “Hey, Good Lookin’.”

After Gambit reported the Jindal playlist (which also included songs by Wayne Toups and Zydecajun, Garth Brooks, Montgomery Gentry and the Zac Brown Band), Buckwheat Zydeco chided the Jindal campaign in a tweet, indicating that Buck's candidate of choice is Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a registered independent who is challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

“Using our music is not cool at all #BobbyJindal,” the musician tweeted. “@SenSanders using our ‘Make A Change’ to make his announcement is tres bien!”

Jindal's Campaign Responded:

UPDATE: Asked for comment, Shannon Dirmann, a spokeswoman for Jindal, replied:

We licensed the music we played. But if Mr. Zydeco wants to be a good socialist like Bernie Sanders, he might need to rethink the idea of private property.

To which Zydeco's camp responded:

Buckwheat Zydeco ‏@buckwheatzydeco

They can buy a song but can't buy our approval. It's not worth it. We are not a prop. http://bit.ly/1Gvx8Cu

All I can say is I hope they keep doing it. Look at all the free advertising they are giving to Bernie 'a good Socialist" they are so in the past.

Bernie is apparently a fan of Buckwheat also. This is the great song 'Make a Change' he used in his announcement for the WH race: