{"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":"<p>The late, great Buckwheat Zydeco covered one of Bruce&#8217;s more obscure tracks on his final studio album,\u00a0<em>Lay Your Burden Down. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>For an artist with a distinct sound of his own, Zydeco&#8217;s version of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/roll-of-the-dice-back-in-your-arms\/\">Back in Your Arms<\/a>&#8221; is surprisingly faithful to the original&#8230; for about thirty seconds. Then Zydeco shifts the song into a reggae arrangement and never looks back.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, it works. I&#8217;d never have imagined Bruce&#8217;s R&amp;B torch song recast as a reggae ballad, but that&#8217;s the wonderful thing about covers: sometimes they deliver surprises that cast new light on an old favorite.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8LzWJ2XviRc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last songs Buckwheat Zydeco recorded in the studio was a reggae reinvention of Bruce&#8217;s torch song, &#8220;Back in Your Arms.&#8221; And it 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