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Double Time
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

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

"Diddy Wa Diddie" (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" (trad. arr. Perry Bradford) – 4:16
"Mississippi Delta Blues" (Jack Neville, Jimmie Rodgers) – 1:44

Side two

"Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" (Traditional) – 3:43
"My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton, Maybelle Watson) – 3:10
"The Sheik of Araby" (Harry Smith, Ted Snyder, Francis Wheeler) – 2:31
"Mississippi River Blues" (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

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

^ Double Time at AllMusic
^ 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.
^ McGrath, Paul (28 Dec 1977). "The Music Hits the Earth". The Globe and Mail. p. F3.
^ ^a ^b "Leon Redbone Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
^ Double Time, Warner Bros.: K56301, 1977 - sleeve notes

External links

Leon Redbone- Sheik of Araby on YouTube

[1] Double Time at AllMusic

[CG-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.

[BB1-4] "Leon Redbone Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 6, 2021.

[5] Double Time, Warner Bros.: K56301, 1977 - sleeve notes

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