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Trouble

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For 20 years, Stanley "Buckwheat"Dural Jr. has been dishing up zydeco's musical gumbo -- gobs of Creole accordion music mixed with Afro-Cuban rhythms and Southern rock-and-soul as hot and zesty as the crawfish étoufée whipped up from his wife Bernite's published recipes.

Hailing from Lafayette, Louisiana's French-speaking Creole country, Dural, 51, was taught to play zydeco accordion by his father and was organist for Joe Tex and the late zydeco king Clifton Chenier before launching his own group in 1979.

Now celebrating two decades at the helm of Buckwheat Zydeco with this, his 16th album--and the first on his own Tomorrow label--Dural and his nine-piece band deliver 10 tracks of propulsive, rollicking dance party music. Among the highlights: a French-language invitation to a back-swamp pig roast, "Allons à Boucherie," and the reeling, mostly instrumental "Hard Chargin'," which was heard throughout Adam Sandler's The Waterboy soundtrack.

The foot stomping,ground pounding,throw your hands in the air music of the mighty delta comes alive and kicking with Buckwheat's latest album , TROUBLE. His funky down home blends of cajun rhythms and melodic overtones of local accordian styles makes one of the few living icons left in America today worth listening to for this particular blues,funk,swamp,infectious blend of boogieing inside your soul.

Buckwheat Zydeco is amazing!! The songs on this album will raise your temperature and get your whole body moving and grooving!!