MEMBERS OF Los
Zydeco’s latest.

re Rees

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Lobos and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band make appearances on Buckwheat

_ Zydeco to go in this fine feast of rural Louisiana

Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

UCKWHEAT IS col-
, lected; Pink Floyd
waa milestone is
revisited; James Brown
sparks on release number
79.

Buckwheat Zydeco —- Menager-
ie: The Essential Zydeco Coillec-
tion, Isiand Records 1993

Feel good despite innately
cranky inclinations? How can this
be? That all-time nerdy instrument,
the accordion, is the backbone of
this bastard son of R&B? :

Welt it is and you'll gobble your
snapbeans with gusto, tos, when
you plug Buckwheat into-the
home entertainment system.

Watch you don't step on the kit-
ty.
This is a Buckwheat “‘best of’
deal anci it doesn't really matter
much what they picked to out on
here because it all flows with an
up-tempo rhythmic inevitability.

Los Lobos big man David
Hidalgo guests on Pour Tout
Quelque‘un, country fixture
Dwight Yoakam contributes vocals
on Hey, Good Lookin’, and
various Dirty Dozen Brass Band
members fill out the sound
throughout.

Catch Buckwheat in a rare
small-venue setting for a Louisiana
Creole dance party at The Yale,
Sunday, April 4.

Pink Floyd — Dark Side Of
The Moon, EMI 1992

The translucent pyramidical rock
monolith squatted atop the
Billboard Top 200 chan for an as-
tounding 741 consecutive weeks.

It remains the best-selling album
in the history.of Capitol Records,
although at the time the label's
executives didn’t quite know whai
to make of it.

Before it became boomer fodder

for classic rock radio, it provided a
soundtrack for countless kids
gathered in darkened hideaways,
dabbling in exotic new brain
foods.

It is the 20th anniversary for
Dark Side Of The Moon. To
.commemorate the milestone, the
album has returned remastered
and spiffed up in a limited-edition
box complete with a lyric booklet
and cool new graphics by
Hipgnosis.

Trigger the repeat function but-
ton on your CD player and presto:
time stands still. You do not age
on the dark side of the moon,
James Brown — Universal
James, Scotti Bros. 1993

Whether you think of him as
Hardest Working Man In Show’
Business, or the Most Sampled Liv-
ing Man In The Western Hemi-
sphere, James Brown remains
Funk Man Supremo.

Universal James, release No. 79
for Brown, sees the soul-man icon
teamed up with Soul tl Soul pro-
ducer Jazzie B and C&C Music
Factory brain trust Robert Clivilles
and David Cole.

Brown’s influence on cantem-
porary soul, funk, R&B and dance
music is massive,

The danger of a project like
Universal James is the risk of
defusing Mr. Dynamite within the
context of a tribute album of sorts,
though one in which the focus of
the creative accolade is an active
participant.

It happens with a few of the
tracks where the complimentary
kid gloves of Brown's col-
laborators were on a tad too tight.

Yet most of the cuts cook with
trademark energy, Brown is back
and in control when he does what
he does so well -- that Georgia

struttin’ funky thang.

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The spring Vancouver Records
Collectors Association 1993 Re-
cord and CD sale is set for Sunday,
April 4, at the Kitsilano Communi-
ty Centre, 2690 Larch St, in Van-
couver.

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