Search - Buckwheat Zydeco :: Lay Your Burden Down

Lay Your Burden Down
Buckwheat Zydeco
Lay Your Burden Down
Genres: Blues, International Music, Pop
 
  •  Track Listings (11) - Disc #1

LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN is the most ambitious, deepest and varied recording of Buckwheat Zydeco's career. It is a remarkably conceived, rocking album featuring five new Buckwheat originals and complete reinventions of songs b...  more »

     
?

Larger Image

CD Details

All Artists: Buckwheat Zydeco
Title: Lay Your Burden Down
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Alligator Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 5/5/2009
Genres: Blues, International Music, Pop
Styles: Contemporary Blues, Regional Blues, Cajun & Zydeco
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 014551492924

Synopsis

Album Description
LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN is the most ambitious, deepest and varied recording of Buckwheat Zydeco's career. It is a remarkably conceived, rocking album featuring five new Buckwheat originals and complete reinventions of songs by Memphis Minnie (When The Levee Breaks, made famous by Led Zeppelin), Bruce Springsteen (Back In Your Arms), Gov't Mule (Lay Your Burden Down), Captain Beefheart (Too Much Time), Jimmy Cliff (Let Your Yeah Be Yeah) and JJ Grey & Mofro (The Wrong Side). Guests on the album include Sonny Landreth, Warren Haynes, Steve Berlin, JJ Grey and Trombone Shorty. As New Orleans author Ben Sandmel writes in the liner notes, "LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN pulses with music that tells a story. Since it's zydeco, this album will naturally get feet to moving. But LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN speaks with equal eloquence to the head, and the heart." In this, Buckwheat's first post-Katrina album, Louisiana's life-affirming jazz funeral philosophy of renewal - partying in the face of adversity - is on full display, with joyful, rhythmic dance music and deeper, more intense songs sharing the same celebratory bayou sprit. With LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN, Buckwheat Zydeco's large and loyal fan base will have to make room for a massive influx of new converts.

Similar CDs


Similarly Requested CDs

 

CD Reviews

Lay Your Burden Down
James Weaver | Concord, NC | 09/22/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Great Unique sound varying between Cajun and Reggae. Prompt service, arrived in good condition."