Double Time (Leon Redbone album)
Double Time is the second album by singer/guitarist Leon Redbone, released in 1976. It peaked at No. 38 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.
Track listing
- "Diddy Wah Diddy" (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" (Perry Bradford) – 4:16
- "Mississippi Delta Blues" (Jack Neville, Jimmie Rodgers) – 1:44
- "Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" (Traditional) – 3:43
- "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton) – 3:10
- "The Sheik of Araby" (Harry Smith, Ted Snyder, Francis Wheeler) – 2:31
- "Mississippi River Blues" (Jimmie 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
- Leon Redbone – vocals, guitar, throat tromnet, background whistling (on "Crazy Blues")
- Milt Hinton – 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. Bently) - background vocals (on "Shine On Harvest Moon")
- The Dixie Hummingbirds (Ira Tucker sr., James Walker, James Davis, Beachy Thompson) - background 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", "Diddy Wah Diddy")
- William S. Fischer – string arrangements (on "Mississippi Delta Blues", "Melancholy Baby", "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