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Trouble
Buckwheat Zydeco
Trouble
Genres: Blues, International Music, Pop
 
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Over the years, accordion and keyboard player Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. has extended his sphere of influence far beyond southern Louisiana and East Texas. Today Dural's still going strong; he's even releasing this albu...  more »

     
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All Artists: Buckwheat Zydeco
Title: Trouble
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Release Date: 4/29/1997
Genres: Blues, International Music, Pop
Styles: Regional Blues, Cajun & Zydeco
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 075679276322

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Over the years, accordion and keyboard player Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. has extended his sphere of influence far beyond southern Louisiana and East Texas. Today Dural's still going strong; he's even releasing this album on his very own record label. Central to his allure as a singer and instrumentalist is how fascinatingly Dural works his cadences into the mighty file-seasoned grooves conjured by world-class bassist Lee Allen Zeno and drummer Kevin Menard, who are lent able assistance by horns, a rhythm guitarist, a second keyboardist, and a washboard player. Songs written by Dural (or cowritten with his longtime manager Ted Fox) have all the let-the-good-times-roll exuberance suggested by titles like "Hard Chargin'," "Hard to Stop," and "Put It in the Pocket." The rhythms cool down only for the unabashedly charming "Do You Remember the Time?" Dural's one misstep is subverting the poignant storytelling aspect of the Robert Johnson classic "Crossroads" in the name of fun. All told, Trouble's pleasure quotient almost matches that of 1990's Where There's Smoke There's Fire. --Frank-John Hadley

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Swap-Boogie Joy Ride
11/08/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"For 20 years, Stanley "Buckwheat"Dural Jr. has been dishing up zydeco's musical gumbo -- gobs of Creole accordion music mixed with Afro-Cuban rhythms and Southern rock-and-soul as hot and zesty as the crawfish étoufée whipped up from his wife Bernite's published recipes. Hailing from Lafayette, Louisiana's French-speaking Creole country, Dural, 51, was taught to play zydeco accordion by his father and was organist for Joe Tex and the late zydeco king Clifton Chenier before launching his own group in 1979. Now celebrating two decades at the helm of Buckwheat Zydeco with this, his 16th album--and the first on his own Tomorrow label--Dural and his nine-piece band deliver 10 tracks of propulsive, rollicking dance party music. Among the highlights: a French-language invitation to a back-swamp pig roast, "Allons à Boucherie," and the reeling, mostly instrumental "Hard Chargin'," which was heard throughout Adam Sandler's The Waterboy soundtrack."
Buckwheat Boogies Again Down in the BAYOU! BRAVO!!
01/19/1999
(4 out of 5 stars)

"The foot stomping,ground pounding,throw your hands in the air music of the mighty delta comes alive and kicking with Buckwheat's latest album , TROUBLE. His funky down home blends of cajun rhythms and melodic overtones of local accordian styles makes one of the few living icons left in America today worth listening to for this particular blues,funk,swamp,infectious blend of boogieing inside your soul."