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Double Time (Leon Redbone album)

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Released
  
1977

Artist
  
Leon Redbone

Producer
  
Joel Dorn

Genre
  
Ragtime

Length
  
31:33

Release date
  
1977

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

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Double Time is the second studio album by singer/guitarist Leon Redbone, released in 1977. It peaked at #38 on the Billboard pop album charts.

Contents

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Track listing

  1. "Diddy Wa Diddie" (Blind Blake) – 3:05
  2. "Nobody's Sweetheart" (Ernie Erdman, Gus Kahn, Billy Meyers, Elmer Schoebel) – 2:13
  3. "Shine On Harvest Moon" (Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth) – 3:21
  4. "Crazy Blues" (trad. arr. Perry Bradford) – 4:16
  5. "Mississippi Delta Blues" (Jack Neville, Jimmie Rodgers) – 1:44
  6. "Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" (Traditional) – 3:43
  7. "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton, Maybelle Watson) – 3:10
  8. "The Sheik of Araby" (Harry Smith, Ted Snyder, Francis Wheeler) – 2:31
  9. "Mississippi River Blues" (Rodgers) – 3:05
  10. "Winin' Boy Blues" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 4:17
  11. "If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven" (Albert E. Brumley) – 3:18

Personnel

  • Leon Redbone – vocals, guitar, throat tromnet, background whistling on "Crazy Blues"
  • Milt Hinton – bass guitar
  • Jo Jones – drums
  • Bob Greene – piano
  • Don McLean – banjo on "Mississippi Delta Blues"
  • Eric Weissberg – banjo on "Shine On Harvest Moon"
  • Dominic Cortese – accordion
  • Jonathan Dorn – tuba
  • Yusef Lateef – soprano saxophone on "Mississippi River Blues"
  • Ed Polcer – trumpet
  • Ed Barefield – clarinet
  • Vic Dickenson – trombone
  • Dick Rath – trombone
  • Joe Wilder – trumpet on "Nobody's Sweetheart"
  • Kermit Moore – cello
  • Selwart Clarke – viola
  • Lewis Elgy – violin
  • Sanford Allen – violin
  • Captain Billy's Whiz Bang (William Kruse, Frederick Mount III, Andrew Smith, Mark S. Bently) - backing vocals on "Shine On Harvest Moon"
  • The Dixie Hummingbirds (Ira Tucker, Sr., James Walker, James Davis, Beachy Thompson) - backing vocals on "If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven"
  • Jerry Teifer - background whistling on "Shine On Harvest Moon"
  • Beachy Thompson - background whistling on "If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven"
  • Al Cohn – horn arrangements on "Crazy Blues", "Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" and "Diddy Wah Diddy"
  • William S. Fischer – string arrangements on "Mississippi Delta Blues", "Melancholy Baby" and "Shine On Harvest Moon"

    • Production notes

  • Joel Dorn – producer
  • Hal Willner – associate producer
  • Bob Liftin – recording and remix engineer
  • Vince McGarry – additional recording and mastering engineer
  • Neil Brody – additional recording engineer
  • Benno Friedman – backliner photo
  • Michael Horen – cover art

    • Songs

    1Diddy Wa Diddie3:08
    2Nobody's Sweetheart2:14
    3Shine on Harvest Moon3:14

    References

    Double Time (Leon Redbone album) Wikipedia
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