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Buckwheat Zydeco: Lay Your Burden Down

Revisions (5)

On May 5, 2009, “Aligator” label released “Lay Your Burden Down”, the third Buckwheat Zydeco album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Steve Berlin. In 2010, the album won the “Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album.”  

Personnel:

Buckwheat Zydeco and The Ils Sont Partis Band, (shortened to Buckwheat Zydeco.)

  • Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr. – lead and backing vocals, accordion, Hammond B3 organ, synth keyboard
  • Sir Reginald Master Dural – rubboard, backing vocals
  • Michael Melchione – guitar
  • Olivier Scoazec – guitar
  • Curtis Watson – trumpet
  • Lee Allen Zeno – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Kevin Menard – drums.
  • Sonny Landreth – slide guitar
  • Warren Haynes – slide guitar
  • Steve Berlin – baritone saxophone
  • Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews – trombone
  • John “J.J.” Grey – Wurlitzer electric piano, backing vocals
  • David Farrell – engineer, mixing
  • Korey Richey – second engineer

Track listing:

  1. When the Levee Breaks – Kansas Joe McCoy, Memphis Minnie
  2. The Wrong Side – JJ Grey
  3. Let Your Yeah Be Yeah – James B. Chambers
  4. Don’t Leave Me – Buckwheat Zydeco, Ted Fox
  5. Back in Your Arms – Bruce Springsteen
  6. Throw Me Something Mister – Buckwheat Zydeco
  7. Ley Your Burden Down – Warren Heynes, Michael Berbiero
  8. Time Goes By – Buckwheat Zydeco, Ted Fox
  9. Ninth Place – Buckwheat Zydeco, Ted Fox
  10. Too Much Time – Don Van Vliet
  11. Finding My Way Back Home – Buckwheat Zydeco

Guitar Shorty: Watch Your Back

On April 27, 2004, “Alligator” label released “Watch Your Back”, the sixth  Guitar Shorty (David Kearney) studio album. It was recorded in 2003, and was produced by Brian Brinkerhoff and Jesse Harms.

Personnel:

  • Guitar Shorty – vocals, guitar
  • Sweet William Bouchard – bass
  • Electric Vic Johnson – rhythm guitar
  • Alvino Bennett — drums, percussion
  • Jesse Harms — piano, engineer, mixing
  • Dan Stout — mastering
  • Marc Lipkin — liner notes
  • Kevin Niemiec — design
  • Dan Monick — photography

Track listing:

  1. Old School – Jesse Harms
  2. Story of My Life – Jesse Harms, Truitt
  3. I’m Gonna Leave You – Truitt
  4. What She Don’t Know – Truitt
  5. I’ve Been Working – Van Morrison
  6. Get Busy – Jesse Harms
  7. Let My Guitar Do the Talking – Jesse Harms, O’Keefe
  8. It Ain’t the Fall That Kills You – Jesse Harms
  9. Right Tool for the Job – Truitt

Barcia Ball: So Many Rivers

On April 22, 2003, “Aligator” label released “So Many Rivers” the eleventh Marcia Ball album. It was recorded in 2002, at “The Hit Shack” in Austin, Texas, “Greenleaf Place” in Hollywood, California, and was produced by Stephen Bruton.

Personnel:

  • Marcia Ball – vocals, piano
  • Stephen Bruton – acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin
  • James Pennebaker – guitar, lap steel, baritone guitar, fiddle
  • Pat Boyack – guitar
  • Wayne Toups – vocal, accordion
  • Johnny Nicholas – harmonica
  • Red Young – Hammond B3 Organ
  • Don Bennett – bass
  • Yoggie Musgrove – bass
  • Chris Maresh – bass
  • Tom Fillman – drums
  • Keith Robinson – drums
  • Deborah Dobkin: percussion
  • Chet Himes – engineer, mixing
  • Ross Hogarth – engineer
  • Todd Dillon – engineer assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Marcia Ball, except where noted.

  1. Foreclose On The House Of Love – John Lee Sanders
  2. Dance with Me – Danny Timms
  3. Baby, Why Not
  4. Honeypie – Danny Timms
  5. Give Me a Chance
  6. Didn’t You Know
  7. Give It Up (Give In)
  8. So Many Rivers to Cross – Jodi Siegel, Daniel Moore
  9. The Storm
  10. The Lowdown
  11. Hurricane on China Lake – Danny Timms
  12. Three Hundred Pounds of Hongry – Donnie Fritts, Eddie Hinton
  13. If It’s Really Got To Be This Way – Donnie Frits, Arthur Alexander, Gary Nicholson
  14. If It Ain’t One Thing – Doug Duffey

Koko Taylor: The Earthshaker

On March 1, 1978, “Aligator” label released “The Earthshaker”, the seventh Koko Taylor album. It was recorded in 1977 and was produced by Koko Taylor, Bruce Iglauer and Richard McLeese.

Personnel:

  • Koko Taylor- vocals
  • Johnny B. Moore- guitar
  • Sammy Lawhorn- guitar
  • Pinetop Perkins- keyboards
  • Mervyn “Harmonica” Hinds- harmonica
  • Abb Locke – saxophone
  • Cornelius “Mule” Boyson – bass
  • Vince Chappelle – drums

Track listing:

  1. Let the Good Times Roll – Moore, Theard
  2. Spoonful – Willie Dixon
  3. Walking the Back Streets – Jones
  4. Cut You Loose – London
  5. Hey Bartender – Terry
  6. I’m a Woman – McDaniel, Koko Taylor
  7. You Can Have My Husband (But Please Don’t Mess With My Man) – La Bostrie
  8. Please Don’t Dog Me – Koko Taylor
  9. Wang Dang Doodle – Willie Dixon