''Lay Your Burden Down'' is a studio album by Buckwheat Zydeco, released in 2009 through Alligator Records. The album ranked number five on

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Top Blues Albums. In 2010, the album earned Buckwheat Zydeco the

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for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album. This is Buckwheat Zydeco's first record with Alligator Records and was produced by

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, who produced his 1994 album ''Five Card Stud''.

Track listing

Personnel

The album features the Buckwheat Zydeco and The Ils Sont Partis Band, usually shortened to just Buckwheat Zydeco. In the album, this band included: *Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. on accordion, Hammond B3 organ,

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, lead vocals & backing vocals; *Sir Reginald Master Dural on rubboard, backing vocals; *Michael Melchione on

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; *Olivier Scoazec on guitar; *Curtis Watson on

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; *Lee Allen Zeno on

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, backing vocals; *Kevin Menard on drums. Also, helped create the album: *

– baritone saxophone *

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–

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* John "J.J." Grey – backing vocal &

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(on track 2) *

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– slide guitar (on tracks 1, 2) *

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– slide guitar (on track 7) *David Farrell – engineer/mixer *Korey Richey - second engineer

References

{{Authority control 2009 albums Alligator Records albums Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album