Taking It Home

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Taking It Home
Studio album by
Buckwheat Zydeco
Released1988
GenreZydeco
LabelIsland Records
ProducerTed Fox
Buckwheat Zydeco chronology
On a Night Like This
(1987) 		Taking It Home
(1988) 		Where There's Smoke, There's Fire
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic2.5/5 stars[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[2]
Houston Chronicle4.5/5 stars[3]
MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide2.5/5 stars[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide3.5/5 stars[5]

Taking It Home is a studio album by the zydeco musician Buckwheat Zydeco, released in 1988.[6][7] The title was also used for a 1990 video release of a Buckwheat Zydeco show recorded in London.[8]

The album peaked at No. 104 on the Billboard 200.[9]

Production[]

The album was produced by Ted Fox.[10] It was recorded with Buckwheat Zydeco's eight-member band, Ils Sont Partis.[11] Eric Clapton contributed a guitar solo to the cover of "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad".[12]

Critical reception[]

The St. Petersburg Times wrote that Buckwheat "mixed vibrant, up-to-the-minute sound quality and full production with the kinetic rootsiness of straight-up zydeco."[11] The San Francisco Chronicle found the album to be inferior to On a Night Like This, but praised Buckwheat's decision to give "Clapton a chance to outdo his old solo on a romping, rollicking 'Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad'."[13] The Houston Chronicle stated: "Feasting off the Creole culture's self-renaissance of the '70s and '80s, [Buckwheat]'s been able to move zydeco into the contemporary marketplace without sacrificing its roots. That is the major accomplishment here."[3] The Chicago Tribune thought that Taking It Home "finally crosses the line and becomes the nightmare purists always warned about ... With few exceptions, the overblown, overly fast, repetitive pop tunes are mindless mainstream music with an accordion."[14]

Track listing[]

No.TitleLength
1."Creole Country"2:08
2."Down Dallas Alley"4:13
3."These Things You Do"3:37
4."Drivin' Old Grey"4:59
5."Make A Change"4:02
6."Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad"4:43
7."Ooh Wow"3:18
8."In And Out Of My Life"3:51
9."Taking It Home"4:13
10."Creole Country Part 2"1:40

References[]

  1. ^ "Taking It Home - Buckwheat Zydeco | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 2: MUZE. p. 46.CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Racine, Marty (September 25, 1988). "Records". Houston Chronicle. Zest. p. 11.
  4. ^ MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1998. p. 105.
  5. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 94–95.
  6. ^ "Buckwheat Zydeco | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. ^ Wood, Roger; Fraher, James (September 1, 2006). "Texas Zydeco". University of Texas Press – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Voedisch, Lynn (July 15, 1990). "Oldies but goodies - Home in on family favorites". Chicago Sun-Times. At Home. p. 5.
  9. ^ "Chart History Buckwheat Zydeco". Billboard. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  10. ^ Tisserand, Michael (1998). The Kingdom of Zydeco. Arcade Publishing. p. 159.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b Snider, Eric (2 Oct 1988). "Squeezing out sparks // The accordion becomes trendy". St. Petersburg Times. p. 2F.
  12. ^ "Buckwheat Zydeco Happily Plays to the Younger Set". Los Angeles Times. May 26, 1988.
  13. ^ Selvin, Joel (September 18, 1988). "BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO: Taking It Home". San Francisco Chronicle. Sunday. p. 37.
  14. ^ Heim, Chris (20 Oct 1988). "2 POTENTIAL KINGS VIE FOR ZYDECO CORONATION". Chicago Tribune. Tempo. p. 16.
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