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1977 studio album by Leon Redbone
Double Time is the second studio album by singer/guitarist
Leon Redbone , released in 1977.
[3] It peaked at No. 38 on the
Billboard pop albums chart.
[4]
Track listing
Side one
"
Diddy Wa Diddie " (
Blind Blake ) – 3:05
"
Nobody's Sweetheart " (Ernie Erdman,
Gus Kahn , Billy Meyers,
Elmer Schoebel ) – 2:13
"
Shine On Harvest Moon " (
Nora Bayes ,
Jack Norworth ) – 3:21
"
Crazy Blues " (trad. arr.
Perry Bradford ) – 4:16
"Mississippi Delta Blues" (Jack Neville,
Jimmie Rodgers ) – 1:44
Side two
"Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" (Traditional) – 3:43
"
My Melancholy Baby " (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton, Maybelle Watson) – 3:10
"
The Sheik of Araby " (
Harry Smith ,
Ted Snyder , Francis Wheeler) – 2:31
"Mississippi River Blues" (Rodgers) – 3:05
"Winin' Boy Blues" (
Jelly Roll Morton ) – 4:17
"If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven" (
Albert E. Brumley ) – 3:18
Personnel
Musicians
Source:
[5]
Leon Redbone –
vocals ,
guitar , throat tromnet, background
whistling on "Crazy Blues"
Jack Noseworthy -
pan flute
Milt Hinton –
double bass
Jo Jones –
drums
Bob Greene –
piano
Don McLean –
banjo on "Mississippi Delta Blues"
Eric Weissberg – banjo on "Shine On Harvest Moon"
Dominic Cortese –
accordion
Jonathan Dorn –
tuba
Yusef Lateef –
soprano saxophone on "Mississippi River Blues"
Ed Polcer –
trumpet
Ed Barefield –
clarinet
Vic Dickenson –
trombone
Dick Rath – trombone
Joe Wilder – trumpet on "Nobody's Sweetheart"
Kermit Moore –
cello
Selwart Clarke –
viola
Lewis Elgy –
violin
Sanford Allen – violin
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang (William Kruse, Frederick Mount III, Andrew Smith, Mark S. Bentley) -
backing vocals on "Shine On Harvest Moon"
The Dixie Hummingbirds (Ira Tucker Sr., James Walker, James Davis, Beachy Thompson) - backing vocals on "If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven"
Jerry Teifer - background whistling on "Shine On Harvest Moon"
Beachy Thompson - background whistling on "If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven"
Al Cohn –
horn
arrangements on "Crazy Blues", "Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" and "Diddy Wah Diddy"
William S. Fischer –
string arrangements on "Mississippi Delta Blues", "Melancholy Baby" and "Shine On Harvest Moon"
Technical
Joel Dorn –
producer
Hal Willner – associate producer
Bob Liftin – recording and remix
engineer
Vince McGarry – additional recording and mastering engineer
Neil Brody – additional recording engineer
Benno Friedman – backliner photo
Michael Horen and Leon Redbone – cover art
Charts
References
External links