Buckwheat Zydeco Jr.

Buckwheat Zydeco Jr.

Buckwheat Zydeco Jr.

Lost Bayou Ramblers

Video: Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. & The Ils Sont Partis Band – LIVE @ 2024 Performance at Louisiana Grammy Nominee Celebration – Grammy Museum Downtown Los Angeles

Congratulations to Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. and the Lost Bayou Ramblers with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in a tie with the Lost Bayou Ramblers to win the 2024 Best Regional Roots Album Grammy on February 5, 2024.

Buckwheat Zydeco (Stanley Dural) and Buckwheat Zydeco Jr.(Reggie Dural) are the first Zydeco musicians/Father and Son duo to win Grammy Awards for their own independent music! It’s a tie and big congratulations to local Grammy winners and friends Buckwheat Zydeco and Lost Bayou Ramblers for Best Regional Roots Album! Buckwheat Zydeco Junior’s newest album “New Beginnings” is the first album Sir Regg has released since his father’s (Stanley Dural) passing in 2016. Buckwheat Zydeco Junior, also known as Sir Regg, Buckwheat Zydeco, his father, and the band won a Grammy back in 2014 for their album “Lay Your Burden Down”.

The Lost Bayou Ramblers “LIVE: ORPHEUM THEATER NOLA”, Lost Bayou Rambler’s winning Grammy album in collaboration with Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra is now available for vinyl pre order! Almost a year to the date LBR joined the LPO for a single performance at Orpheum Theater New Orleans. The recording by Esplanade Studios is now being lacquered and pressed to vinyl at New Orleans Record Press and will be available on May 1, 2024.

Bands competing in the category included:
Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. & The Legendary Ils Sont Partis Band – New Beginnings — was the winner at the 2024 GRAMMY

Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers – Live At The 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Lost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra – Live: Orpheum Theater Nola — WINNER

New Breed Bass Band – Made in New Orleans 

New Orleans Nightcrawlers – Too Much to Hold 

The Rumble Feature Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr. – Live at the Maple Leaf

Excerpts from Wikipedia: The Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 as the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the regionally based traditional American music, including Hawaiian, Native American, polka, zydeco and Cajun music genres. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to “honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position”.

The category was introduced in 2012 in which the previous Best Hawaiian Music Album, Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album and Best Native American Music Album categories were combined. The change was the result of a major overhaul of Grammy categories, announced in April 2011. The new category also recognizes other American roots forms, such as polka, whose own Grammy category was discontinued in 2009. In 2021, the category added the inclusion of Go-go music.

Photo up: Buckwheat Zydeco receives award on February 5, 2024
Photo down: Lost Bayou Ramblers received award.
Photo left: New Beginnings Album cover by Buckwheat Zydeco, Jr.
Photo right: Lost Bayou Ramblers Cover