Lil Buck Sinegal: A Louisiana Treasure, On Display at New Orleans Jazz Fest
Lil' Buck Sinegal Keeps the Blues Tradition Strong!
April 29, 2013
by Alison Fensterstock
NOLA.com
Saturday morning (and early afternoon) at New Orleans Jazz Fest, the Blues Tent offered a triple threat of ace sidemen, from the back pages of Louisiana rock 'n'roll. Classie Ballou, who played guitar for Boozoo Chavis, Roscoe Gordon and Big Joe Turner, among others, opened the day with his family band. Herbert Hardesty, Fats Domino's longtime sax man (who, in 2012, released his first solo album) followed.
At 1:30 p.m., it was guitarist Lil Buck Sinegal's turn, leading a big R&B band with a horn section, keyboards and daughter Sherelle on rub board and percussion. Some local music fans may recall Buck as the anchor of the annual Ponderosa Stomp concerts, leading the house band for stretches of many hours at a time as they backed headliners. Those marathon shows were nothing to the septuagenarian guitar slinger, who spent many years on the road as the secret weapon in the band of zydeco king Clifton Chenier, a famously tough taskmaster; he's also played with Henry Gray, Buckwheat Zydeco, and others, and honed his skill as a session man on dozens of sides for the Excello label.
So an hour in the Blues Tent is, more or less, a walk in the park for Buck, and he seemed to thoroughly enjoy it with a band full of family and friends around him.
Leading his own group, Buck likes to stretch out in long blues jams, as opposed to the short, tight zydeco-R&B rockers of his past; he did so Saturday, sprinkling in familiar covers like "Johnny B. Goode" and Santo & Johnny's "Sleepwalk."
Close to the end of the set, he had the crowd on its feet with an electric-blues version of the national anthem. Immediately following, he swung into the set's closer - his own original wild soul track "Monkey In A Sack," which had the patriotic onlookers pledging allegiance to rock 'n'roll.
At 4 p.m. Saturday, Lil Buck reminisces about his years in rock 'n'roll on the Allison Miner Heritage Stage with WWOZ DJ David Kunian. I'll add to this post after hearing them talk.
Lil' Buck Sinegal Keeps the Blues Tradition Strong!
April 29, 2013
by Alison Fensterstock
NOLA.com
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| Blues Master, Paul "Lil Buck" Sinegal played was the original guitar player for Clifton Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band. |
Saturday morning (and early afternoon) at New Orleans Jazz Fest, the Blues Tent offered a triple threat of ace sidemen, from the back pages of Louisiana rock 'n'roll. Classie Ballou, who played guitar for Boozoo Chavis, Roscoe Gordon and Big Joe Turner, among others, opened the day with his family band. Herbert Hardesty, Fats Domino's longtime sax man (who, in 2012, released his first solo album) followed.
At 1:30 p.m., it was guitarist Lil Buck Sinegal's turn, leading a big R&B band with a horn section, keyboards and daughter Sherelle on rub board and percussion. Some local music fans may recall Buck as the anchor of the annual Ponderosa Stomp concerts, leading the house band for stretches of many hours at a time as they backed headliners. Those marathon shows were nothing to the septuagenarian guitar slinger, who spent many years on the road as the secret weapon in the band of zydeco king Clifton Chenier, a famously tough taskmaster; he's also played with Henry Gray, Buckwheat Zydeco, and others, and honed his skill as a session man on dozens of sides for the Excello label.
So an hour in the Blues Tent is, more or less, a walk in the park for Buck, and he seemed to thoroughly enjoy it with a band full of family and friends around him.
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| Paul 'Lil Buck' Sinegal plays 'I Got Loaded' with daughter Sherelle Mouton on washboard during an interview at the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage on Saturday, April 27, at the New Orleans Jazz Fest 2013. |
Close to the end of the set, he had the crowd on its feet with an electric-blues version of the national anthem. Immediately following, he swung into the set's closer - his own original wild soul track "Monkey In A Sack," which had the patriotic onlookers pledging allegiance to rock 'n'roll.
At 4 p.m. Saturday, Lil Buck reminisces about his years in rock 'n'roll on the Allison Miner Heritage Stage with WWOZ DJ David Kunian. I'll add to this post after hearing them talk.
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