Double Time (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Double Time
Type = studio album
Artist = Leon Redbone


Released = 1977
Genre = Ragtime
Length = 31:33
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Joel Dorn
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wm10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:09fqxqt5ldke link]
*Robert Christgau (B-) [http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=leon+redbone link]
Last album = "On the Track"
(1975)
This album = "Double Time"
(1977)
Next album = "Champagne Charlie"
(1978)

"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" (Leon Redbone) – 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, harmonica, whistle (Human)
*Dom Cortese – accordion
*Eric Weissberg – banjo
*Dick Dickinson – bass
*Bob Greene – piano
*Milt Hinton – bass
*Bruce Jones – drums
*Jo Jones – drums
*Don McLean – banjo
*Kermit Moore – cello
*Joe Wilder – trumpet
*Vic Dickenson – trombone
*Dick Braff – trombone
*Yusef Lateef – saxophone
*Ed Polcer – trumpet
*Ed Pulsar – trumpet
*Lewis Algee – violin
*Sanford Allen – violin
*Eddie Barefield – clarinet
*Ed Bearfield – clarinet
*Seeward Clark – violin
*Selwart Clarke – viola
*Joe Venuti – violin
*Jonathan Dorn – horn
*Lewis Elgy – violin
*Jerry Teiffer – whistle (Human)
*The Dixie Hummingbirds – background vocals
*James "Thunderbird" Davis – background vocals
*Andrew Smith – background vocals
*Beachy Thompson – background vocals
*Frederick Mount III – background vocals
*James Walker – background vocals
*Mark S. Bentley – background vocals
*Al Cohn – horn arrangements
*William S. Fischer – string arrangementsProduction notes
*Joel Dorn – producer
*Hal Willner – associate producer
*Bob Liftin – engineer, remixing
*Vince McGarry – engineer, mastering
*Neil Brody – engineer
*Benno Friedman – photography
*Michael Horen – artwork