Double Time is the second studio album by singer/guitarist Leon Redbone, released in 1977. It peaked at No. 38 on the Billboard pop albums chart.
Track listing Side one "Diddy Wa Diddie" (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" (trad. arr. Perry Bradford) – 4:16 "Mississippi Delta Blues" (Jack Neville, Jimmie Rodgers) – 1:44
Side two "Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" (Traditional) – 3:43 "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton, Maybelle Watson) – 3:10 "The Sheik of Araby" (Harry Smith, Ted Snyder, Francis Wheeler) – 2:31 "Mississippi River Blues" (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 Musicians Source:Double Time, Warner Bros.: K56301, 1977 - sleeve notes
Leon Redbone – vocals, guitar, throat tromnet, background whistling on "Crazy Blues" Jack Noseworthy – pan flute Milt Hinton – double 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. Bentley) – 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" Gerry 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"
Technical
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 and Leon Redbone – cover art
Charts Chart (1977) Peakposition
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