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Lay Your Burden Down

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Lay Your Burden Down
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 5, 2009 (2009-05-05)[1]
GenreZydeco
Length47:01
LabelAlligator
ProducerSteve Berlin[2]
Buckwheat Zydeco chronology
The Best of Buckwheat Zydeco: Millennium Collection
(2009)
Lay Your Burden Down
(2009)
Let The Good Times Roll: Essential Recordings
(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[2] and was produced by Steve Berlin, who produced his 1994 album Five Card Stud.[3]

Track listing

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No.TitleComposer[2]Length
1."When the Levee Breaks"Kansas Joe McCoy, Memphis Minnie5:15
2."The Wrong Side"JJ Grey4:28
3."Let Your Yeah Be Yeah"James B. Chambers3:37
4."Don't Leave Me"Buckwheat Zydeco, Ted Fox4:46
5."Back in Your Arms"Bruce Springsteen4:29
6."Throw Me Something, Mister"Buckwheat Zydeco3:57
7."Lay Your Burden Down"Warren Haynes, Michael Barbiero5:22
8."Time Goes By"Buckwheat Zydeco, Ted Fox4:05
9."Ninth Place"Buckwheat Zydeco, Ted Fox3:23
10."Too Much Time"Don Van Vliet2:59
11."Finding My Way Back Home"Buckwheat Zydeco4:40
Total length:47:01

Personnel

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

Also, helped create the album:

References

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  1. ^ Reverend Keith A. Gordon. "Buckwheat Zydeco – Lay Your Burden Down (2009)". About.com. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Gottlieb, Bob (2009). "FAME Review: Buckwheat Zydeco – Lay Your Burden Down". Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
  3. ^ a b Leggett, Steve. "Lay Your Burden Down". AllMusic. Retrieved May 9, 2011.
  4. ^ "Alligator Records Info: Buckwheat Zydeco – Lay Your Burden Down". Alligator.com. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Grammy.com – Buckwheat Zydeco". Grammy Awards. Retrieved June 15, 2011.