Artist:  Leon Redbone

Title:  Double Time

Date:  1977

Label:  Warner Bros. Records BS 2971

Cover Art By:  Michael Horen and Leon Redbone

Back Liner Photo By: Benno Friedman

Notes:  Like an enigma from the past Leon Redbone walked nto the seventies and brought along a mixture of blues, New Orleans jazz, storytelling and songs of love and loss. Bringing on such guests ad Yusef Lateef and Don McLean shows a little of the bredth of the material within. Odd, amusing, electic and amazing at times he never fails to deliver. Thre cover art and photo show us a relaxed Leon looking for all the world like a mixture of Groucho, Frank Zappa and Col. Sanders. Good for the ears.

Line Up:

Leon Redbone: vocal, guiatr and throat tromnet
Milt Hinton: bass
Jo Jones: drums
Bob Greene: piano
Don McLean, Eric Weissberg: banjo
Dominic Cortese: accordian
Jonathan Dorn: tuba
Yusef Lateef: soprano saxophone
Ed Polcer, Joe Wilder: trumpet
Ed Barefield: clarinet
Vic Dickerson, Dick Rath: trombone
Kermit Moore: cello
Selwart Clarke: viola
Lewis Elgy, Sanford Allen: violin

Track Listing

Side 1

Diddy Wah Diddy
Nobody's Sweetheart
Shine on Harvest Moon
Crazy Blues
Mississippi Delta Blues

Side 2

Mr. Jelly Roll Baker
My Melancholy Baby
The Sheik of Araby
Mississippi River Blues
Winin' Boy Blues
If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven