Lay Your Burden Down Explained

Lay Your Burden Down
Type:	studio
Artist:	Buckwheat Zydeco
Cover:	Buckwheat Zydeco - Lay Your Burden Down.jpg
Released:	^[1]
Genre:	Zydeco
Label:	Alligator
Producer:	Steve Berlin^[2]
Prev Title:	The Best of Buckwheat Zydeco: Millennium Collection
Prev Year:	2009
Next Title:	Let The Good Times Roll: Essential Recordings
Next Year:	2006

Lay Your Burden Down is a studio album by Buckwheat Zydeco, released in 2009 through Alligator Records.^[3] The album ranked number five on Billboards Top Blues Albums. In 2010, the album earned Buckwheat Zydeco the Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album. This is Buckwheat Zydeco's first record with Alligator Records and was produced by Steve Berlin, who produced his 1994 album Five Card Stud.

Personnel

The album features the Buckwheat Zydeco and The Ils Sont Partis Band, usually shortened to just Buckwheat Zydeco. In the album, this band included:

• Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. on accordion, Hammond B3 organ, synth keyboard, lead vocals & backing vocals;^[4]
• Sir Reginald Master Dural on rubboard, backing vocals;
• Michael Melchione on guitar;
• Olivier Scoazec on guitar;
• Curtis Watson on trumpet;
• Lee Allen Zeno on bass guitar, backing vocals;
• Kevin Menard on drums.^[5]

Also, helped create the album:

• Steve Berlin – baritone saxophone
• Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews – trombone
• John "J.J." Grey – backing vocal & Wurlitzer electric piano (on track 2)
• Sonny Landreth – slide guitar (on tracks 1, 2)
• Warren Haynes – slide guitar (on track 7)
• David Farrell – engineer/mixer
• Korey Richey - second engineer

Notes and References

1. Web site: Buckwheat Zydeco – Lay Your Burden Down (2009). 2011-06-15. Reverend Keith A. Gordon. About.com.
2. Web site: FAME Review: Buckwheat Zydeco – Lay Your Burden Down. 2011-06-05. Gottlieb. Bob. 2009. Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange.
3. Web site: Lay Your Burden Down. May 9, 2011. AllMusic. Leggett. Steve.
4. Web site: Alligator Records Info: Buckwheat Zydeco – Lay Your Burden Down. Alligator.com. 2014-03-24.
5. Web site: Grammy.com – Buckwheat Zydeco. 2011-06-15. Grammy Awards.