Waitin' For My Ya-Ya

Buckwheat Zydeco | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 14, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder / Umgd
• ASIN: B0000002WG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,005 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD

Creole Southern soul/zydeco exponent Stanley -"Buckwheat" Dural is self-deluded about his ascension to Clifton Chenier's throne, but the former Chenier organist sure knows what keys to press on his accordion during this 1985 session. His Ils Sont Partis swamp band, unfortunately, appears ill at ease with the faraway Boston studio. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

Product Description

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Genre: Cajun & Zydeco
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 9-JAN-1989

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Going strong before hitting the big time ! ! !, May 23, 2005

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Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waitin' For My Ya-Ya (Audio CD)

Recorded a bit before the big ZYDECO break through (remember that era with Paul Simon's Graceland and Queen Ida ?) as well as Buckwheat's own breathrough touring with the likes of Eric Clapton, this album has Dural hitting hard and strong, playing a very different type of Zydeco than the world's ever heard before... one in which the blues, R & B and memphis soul mix isn't merely hinted at in the mix, but thrown in your face. - - de-"ruralized" Zydeco taken in an amazing different direction than most of the zydeco of the time. Slick, tight, unpretentious and un-"commercially" cajun creole (something that Dural apparent takes pleasure in... celebrating, but not exploiting his own culture !) it is neither B.B. Kingified Cajun in the tradition of the legends (Chenier and disciple Rockin' Dopsie) nor country or tex mex (in the tradition of such breakthrough groups as Beausoliel and Los Lobos) - - Instead, Buckwheat's music takes elements of traditional zydeco (accordian, washboard, some of the rhythmic syncopations) and puts a mix that would please any fan of Wilson Pickett or the Blues Brothers on the spot. - - This CD, recorded almost 20 years ago shows that Dural had the formula down right well before breaking through, and his recent recordings have shown that he's got back with it. This is one of my favorite Buckwheat Zydeco CDs and represents the birth of a new type of soul, blues and Zydeco right under a party master's healm !

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Waitin' for My Ya Ya, February 28, 2010

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David Benson "Deborah D, tea party designer" (On The Lake, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waitin' For My Ya-Ya (Audio CD)

Once I recieved it I was pleased, unfortunately there was some difficulty in the ordering, I also ordered some other items and somehow it all got split up. I ended up just getting 2 items and they were done as 2 different orders and this one came later. I ordered it to take to a concert we were driving 10 hours to see and unfortunately it did not make it in time but the other item which was not for the concert did.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Waitin' for My Ya-Ya by Buckwheat Zydeco - Great Album, March 13, 2007

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J. Cotten (Arlington Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waitin' For My Ya-Ya (Audio CD)

I always enjoy good Zydeco and this is great. I had this album on tape and I wanted a cd so I bought it. It arrived within a week.