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Buckwheat Zydeco’s longtime manager and producer Ted Fox reflects on launching zydeco’s first major label release. “I was a senior editor [at Audio magazine] and I started getting into zydeco. Audio ...

Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural waited for decades to get a Grammy Award, and it has a prominent place in his Louisiana home. "I have a upright baby grand, and I keep it up there with a whole bunch of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The American accordionist Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural, Jr., who brought wider attention to the Creole musical styles of his native Louisiana through his band Buckwheat Zydeco, died ...

Buckwheat Zydeco Jr.’s favorite song on his Grammy winning album New Beginnings is “Grandma’s Love.” “I wrote that when my grandmother passed away,” says Zydeco Jr. — whose real name is Reginald ...

Two hours west of New Orleans, the town of Opelousas is one of the best places to experience this irresistibly toe-tapping music genre created by Louisiana’s Black Creole community.

Musician Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr., who rose from a cotton-picking family in southwest Louisiana to introduce zydeco music to the world through his namesake band Buckwheat Zydeco, has died. He was ...

Having been the leading ambassador for zydeco music since the late '70s, Stanley Dural Jr., better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, has become its pied piper as well through family concerts, including the ...

Have you ever heard of the Southwest Louisiana-born genre known as zydeco? This gorgeous genre of music was created by the often French-speaking Afro-American Creole musicians of that particular area, ...

Stanley Dural, better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, realizes that many younger blacks along the Gulf Coast are skeptical about zydeco music. He appreciates that they think the music is for their parents ...