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 ...
Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up (CNN) — Stanley Dural Jr., a Louisiana music legend whose stage ...
Hear the New Orleans-based zydeco crossover band perform a session on World Cafe. Buckwheat Zydeco: America's Party Band Buckwheat Zydeco: America's Party Band Zydeco legend and pianist Stanley ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...