Waitin' for My Ya-Ya

From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
Creole Southern soul/zydeco exponent Stanley -"Buckwheat" Dural is self-deluded about his ascension to Clifton Chenier's throne, but the former Chenier organist sure knows what keys to press on his accordion during this 1985 session. His Ils Sont Partis swamp band, unfortunately, appears ill at ease with the faraway Boston studio. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

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Average customer rating: Waitin' for My Ya-Ya by Buckwheat Zydeco - Great Album Going strong before hitting the big time ! ! !

Waitin' for My Ya-Ya Buckwheat Zydeco Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Zydeco | Cajun & Zydeco | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Cajun & Creole | Cajun & Zydeco | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Rounder Records | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: On a Night Like This The Ultimate Collection ASIN: B0000002WG Release Date: 1992-02-14

Tracks:

1. My Feet Can't Fail Me Now
2. Someone Else Is Steppin' In
3. Lache Pas La Patate
4. Warn And Tender Love
5. Walkin' To New Orleans
6. Ya Ya
7. Your Man Is Home Tonight
8. Tee Nah Nah
9. Think It Over One More Time
10. Buck's Step Up
11. Hot Tamale Baby

Customer Reviews:

Waitin' for My Ya-Ya by Buckwheat Zydeco - Great Album.......2007-03-13

I always enjoy good Zydeco and this is great. I had this album on tape and I wanted a cd so I bought it. It arrived within a week.

Going strong before hitting the big time ! ! ! .......2005-05-24

Recorded a bit before the big ZYDECO break through (remember that era with Paul Simon's Graceland and Queen Ida ?) as well as Buckwheat's own breathrough touring with the likes of Eric Clapton, this album has Dural hitting hard and strong, playing a very different type of Zydeco than the world's ever heard before... one in which the blues, R & B and memphis soul mix isn't merely hinted at in the mix, but thrown in your face. - - de-"ruralized" Zydeco taken in an amazing different direction than most of the zydeco of the time. Slick, tight, unpretentious and un-"commercially" cajun creole (something that Dural apparent takes pleasure in... celebrating, but not exploiting his own culture !) it is neither B.B. Kingified Cajun in the tradition of the legends (Chenier and disciple Rockin' Dopsie) nor country or tex mex (in the tradition of such breakthrough groups as Beausoliel and Los Lobos) - - Instead, Buckwheat's music takes elements of traditional zydeco (accordian, washboard, some of the rhythmic syncopations) and puts a mix that would please any fan of Wilson Pickett or the Blues Brothers on the spot. - - This CD, recorded almost 20 years ago shows that Dural had the formula down right well before breaking through, and his recent recordings have shown that he's got back with it. This is one of my favorite Buckwheat Zydeco CDs and represents the birth of a new type of soul, blues and Zydeco right under a party master's healm !

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