Double Time (Leon Redbone album)

Double Time
Studio album by Leon Redbone
Released	1977
Genre	Ragtime
Length	31:33
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Joel Dorn
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Leon Redbone chronology
On the Track (1975) Double Time (1977) 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

1. "Diddy Wah Diddy" (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" (Perry Bradford) – 4:16
5. "Mississippi Delta Blues" (Jack Neville, Jimmie Rodgers) – 1:44
6. "Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" (Traditional) – 3:43
7. "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton) – 3:10
8. "The Sheik of Araby" (Harry Smith, Ted Snyder, Francis Wheeler) – 2:31
9. "Mississippi River Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 3:05
10. "Winin' Boy Blues" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 4:17
11. "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