Led by accordion and keyboards player Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural, Jr. Buckwheat Zydeco took up where zydeco pioneer Clifton Chebier and his Red Hot Louisiana Bandc left off. In the 1980s Dural and Buckwheat Zydeco moved zydeco into the mainstream by adding liberal doses of R&B, blues, rock, soiul and pop to the Louisiana dance music, by touring with the Irish rock group U2, blues-rock guitarist Eric Clapton and bluesman Robert Cray, and by becoming the best-known and most-recorded zydeco act of the decade. (Robert Santelli, The Big Bpok of Blues p. 69_
Interesting. File under: Back on the Bayou
In the music library: Menagerie: The Essential Zydeco Collection
The Big Easy: Buck's Nouvelle Jole Blon
Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box Of New Orleans: Hot Tamale Baby
Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album: Cryin' In The Streets
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