Double Time (Leon Redbone album)

Double Time
Studio album by Leon Redbone
Released	1977
Studio	Regent Sound Studios, NYC and Village Recorders, Los Angeles
Genre	Ragtime
Length	34:43
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Joel Dorn
Leon Redbone chronology
On the Track (1975) Double Time (1977) Champagne Charlie (1978)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B−[2]

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

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

Side two

1. "Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" (Traditional) – 3:43
2. "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton, Maybelle Watson) – 3:10
3. "The Sheik of Araby" (Harry Smith, Ted Snyder, Francis Wheeler) – 2:31
4. "Mississippi River Blues" (Rodgers) – 3:05
5. "Winin' Boy Blues" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 4:17
6. "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

Chart (1977)	Peak position
US Billboard 200[4]	38

References

1. Double Time at AllMusic
2. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: R". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 10, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
3. McGrath, Paul (28 Dec 1977). "The Music Hits the Earth". The Globe and Mail. p. F3.
4. "Leon Redbone Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
5. Double Time, Warner Bros.: K56301, 1977 - sleeve notes

External links

• Leon Redbone- Sheik of Araby on YouTube