Double Time (Leon Redbone album)

Double Time
Studio album by Leon Redbone
Released	1977
Genre	Ragtime
Length	31:33
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Joel Dorn
Leon Redbone chronology
On the Track (1975)On the Track1975 Double Time (1977) Champagne Charlie (1978)Champagne Charlie1978

Double Time is the second studio album by singer/guitarist Leon Redbone, released in 1977. It peaked at #38 on the Billboard Pop Album charts.

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Robert Christgau	B− link

Track listing

1. "Diddy Wa Diddie" (Blind Blake) – 3:05
2. "Nobody's Sweetheart" (Ernie Erdman, Gus Kahn, Billy Meyers, Elmer Schoebel) – 2:13
3. "Shine On Harvest Moon" (Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth) – 3:21
4. "Crazy Blues" (trad. arr. Perry Bradford) – 4:16
5. "Mississippi Delta Blues" (Jack Neville, Jimmie Rodgers) – 1:44
6. "Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" (Traditional) – 3:43
7. "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton, Maybelle Watson) – 3:10
8. "The Sheik of Araby" (Harry Smith, Ted Snyder, Francis Wheeler) – 2:31
9. "Mississippi River Blues" (Rodgers) – 3:05
10. "Winin' Boy Blues" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 4:17
11. "If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven" (Albert E. Brumley) – 3:18

Personnel

• Leon Redbone – vocals, guitar, throat tromnet, background whistling on "Crazy Blues"
• Milt Hinton – bass guitar
• 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. Bently) - 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"

Production notes

• 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 – cover art