Buckwheat Zydeco
unknown venue
Charlotte, NC
February 17, 1988

Source : AUD > low gen cassette (Maxell XL-IIS) (courtesy of Chazarrelli)

Transfer : Tascam CD-A580 > Sony RCD-W500C standalone CD recorder

Editing : Sound Forge (volume, tracking) > Wave > TLH (SBE aligned) Flac 8

Traders Den - June 18, 2023

edited & posted by kingrue upload #3694
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Stanley Dural, Jr., better known by his stage name Buckwheat Zydeco.
He was an American accordionist and zydeco musician.
He was one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success.

Here we have something fun and definitely very rare. There really isn’t much live material from Buckwheat Zydeco.
The sound quality is amazingly good on this and it’s probably a first generation copy, but we don’t know for sure.
Thanks to Chazarrelli for supplying the tape transfer and David Babb for assisting with the set list.

As far as the band lineup is concerned, it’s really impossible to know who is in the band during this time.
But I found a lineup from October 1987 and I’ve also compiled a listing for an alternate lineup in 1988.
Both are very different, so I’ve decided to list both of them and it could be even a combination of both.

Band line-up for Oct 1987
Lee Allen Zeno - bass
Dennis Taylor - tenor sax
Anthony Butler alto sax
Melvin Veazie - guitar
Wilbur Willis - rubboard
Nat Jolivette - drums

Band line-up that i compiled
Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural - accordion, vocals (died September 24, 2016 age 68)
Dennis Taylor .- tenor saxophone (died October 17, 2010 age 56)
Patrick "Red" Landry - rubboard, tambourine
Jimmy Reed - guitar
Melvin Veazie - guitar
Lee Allen Zeno - bass
Kevin Menard - drums


Total Time = 01:31:53

01 Soul Serenade (pt 1) > incl. Buckwheat Introduction
02 Soul Serenade (pt 2)
03 Good Rockin Tonight
04 Joe Pete
05 Bon Ton Roulet
06 Hot Tamale Baby
07 Sweet Marie
-- tape flip --
08 Somebody Told Me
09 I Betcha
10 Ya Ya (pt 1)
11 Ya Ya (pt 2)
12 Tu Le Ton Son Ton
13 Ma Tit Fille
14 When the Saints Go Marching In
15 J'ai Comet, C'est Pa Ma Femme


Notes:
This tape came in without a venue listed.
So here is a list of venues that were open and operating during 1988 in Charlotte.

Pterodactyl Club, Charlotte, NC
Grady Cole Center, Charlotte, NC
Park Elevator, Charlotte, NC
Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC
Ovens Auditorium, Charlotte, NC
The Milestone Club, Charlotte, NC
Carowinds Paladium, Charlotte, NC
The Double Door Inn, Charlotte, NC
The International Club, Charlotte, NC

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