{"id":9989,"date":"2019-05-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2024-01-01T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T02:32:09","slug":"cover-me-buckwheat-zydeco-back-in-your-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/23\/cover-me-buckwheat-zydeco-back-in-your-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Buckwheat Zydeco: Back in Your Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late, great Buckwheat Zydeco covered one of Bruce’s more obscure tracks on his final studio album,\u00a0Lay Your Burden Down. <\/em><\/p>\n

For an artist with a distinct sound of his own, Zydeco’s version of “Back in Your Arms<\/a>” is surprisingly faithful to the original… for about thirty seconds. Then Zydeco shifts the song into a reggae arrangement and never looks back.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, it works. I’d never have imagined Bruce’s R&B torch song recast as a reggae ballad, but that’s the wonderful thing about covers: sometimes they deliver surprises that cast new light on an old favorite.<\/p>\n