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Ray – Buckwheat Zydeco, Lay Your Burden Down (2010)
With nearly 20 albums underneath his belt, Louisiana's Buckwheat Zydeco has quite the resume. His debut LP — One For The Road — dropped back in 1979 and the last four decades have seen the 63-year-old accordion guru (real name Stanley Dural, Jr.) bounce around from label to label. He's called imprints like Atlantic, Island, MCA, and Shout Factory home over his illustrious carreer, but it was his 2010 Alligator Records release that earned him a Grammy award for "Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album." Making light of the NARAS' often aloof nature, the album actually trancends the Zydeco & Cajun spectrum and finds Dural joined by the likes of Warren Haynes, Trobone Shorty, and Steve Berlin. JJ Grey even lends vocals to Buckwheat's cover of the 2004 Mofro cut, "The Wrong Side." It's one of the high points of a great run, and he looks to be catching his second (or is it a third?) wind. A chance to see it in person happens on Fri., Oct. 7 when Buckwheat Zydeco is joined by Beth McKee at Skipper's Smokehouse.

Gabe – Daryl Hall, Laughing Down Crying (2011)
Although he hasn't released a solo album in nearly 15 years, Daryl Hall has been a very busy guy. As half of the best selling duo of all time, he and John Oates have released several records, repeatedly toured the globe and gained indie credibility in the timespan since Hall's last solo venture. The man is still the best and most gifted blue-eyed soul singer in the business and this brand new album is continued proof of that. Daryl continues to dip into his mixed bag of R&B, jazz, soul and catchy pop, and the results are as dazzling as ever. [More after the jump.]

This article appears in Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2011.

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