Double Time (Leon Redbone album)

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Double Time is the second studio album by singer/guitarist Leon Redbone, released in 1977. It peaked at #38 on the Billboard Pop Album charts.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Robert Christgau	B− link

Track listing

1. "Diddy Wa Diddie" (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" (trad. arr. 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, Maybelle Watson) – 3:10
8. "The Sheik of Araby" (Harry Smith, Ted Snyder, Francis Wheeler) – 2:31
9. "Mississippi River Blues" (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 guitar
• 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) - 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"

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