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Adcock has made guest appearances on other artists' albums, including several by Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, Red Letter Year by Ani DiFranco, and several by Bramhall.
Adcock recorded a song for the soundtrack of the HBO series True Blood, titled "Bleed 2 Feed" and has also appeared on the series with his band.
In March 2009 a documentary co-produced by Adcock, Promised Land: A Swamp Pop Journey, looked at life on the road with Lil' Band o' Gold. The film made its premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas.
In March 2010 the second Lil' Band O' Gold album The Promised Land was released on the Dust Devil Music label during the band's inaugural Australian tour.
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Richard has recorded Cajun and zydeco music for over 35 years. He has recorded sixteen studio albums of which five were declared gold albums in Canada with 1 double platinum (Cap Enragé). Although recording in both English and French, Richard’s career has been notably Francophone. He has been awarded 5 Félix (Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc). He is an Officier in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres de la République Française and a member of the Ordre des Francophones d’Amérique. In 1980, he was awarded the Prix de la Jeune Chanson Française by the French Minister of Culture.
In addition to his musical works, Richard published works include 3 volumes of poetry and 3 children’s books. Faire Récolte earned the Prix Champlain (Quebec) in 1998 and Feu received the Prix Roland Gasparic (Bucharest Roumania) in 2002.
Richard has collaborated on several television documentary projects including Against the Tide, the Story of the Cajun people of Louisiana (producer and music director) which received the Best Historical Documentary prize in 2000 awarded by the National Educational Television Authority (UA). The French version, Contre vents, contre marées received the Prix Historia the following year. Zachary was narrator and musical director of Migrations", "Vu du Large", "Coeurs Batailleurs (24 part series) and most recently Kouchibouguac, l’histoire de Jackie Vautour et des Expropriés.
A lifelong resident of south Louisiana, Richard is a committed to the protection of the natural environment. In collaboration with the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, he participated in the television documentary Labranche, Legacy of the Lost. A founding member of Action Cadienne, Richard remains committed to the preservation and promotion of the French language of Louisiana.
In 2009, he was made an honorary Member of the Order of Canada "for his contributions as an author, composer, singer and poet, and for his important role in defending and promoting the French language and the "Cadian" and Acadian identity".
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| Name | Jace Everett |
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| Background | solo_singer |
| Born | 1972) is an American recording artist. Signed to Epic Records in 2005, he released his debut single "That's the Kind of Love I'm In" in 2005, which peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and was the first single from his self-titled debut album. He also co-wrote Josh Turner's Number One single "Your Man". His song "Bad Things" was chosen as the theme for the HBO series True Blood. In 2009, he released his third album, Red Revelations, under the Weston Boys label. |
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| Name | Everett, Jace |
| Date of birth | 1972 |
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| Name | Buckwheat Zydeco |
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| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Stanley Dural, Jr. |
| Alias | Buckwheat Zydeco |
| Born | November 14, 1947 |
| Instrument | Accordion |
| Genre | Zydeco, R&B; |
| Years active | 1971— |
| Label | Alligator Records, Tomorrow Recordings, Rounder, Island, |
| Url | www.buckwheatzydeco.com |
The New York Times says, “Stanley ‘Buckwheat’ Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics…propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances.” USA Today calls him “a zydeco trailblazer.”
Buckwheat Zydeco has performed with a large number of famous musicians from Eric Clapton (with whom Buckwheat also recorded) and U2 to The Boston Pops. The band performed at the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics to a worldwide audience of three billion people. Buckwheat performed for President Clinton twice, celebrating both of his inaugurations. The band has appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman, CNN, The Today Show, MTV, NBC News, CBS Morning News, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition. He has just been added to the Voodoo Experience lineup which will take place over Halloween weekend 2010 in New Orleans, LA.
In 1971, he founded Buckwheat & the Hitchhikers, a funk band that he led for five years before switching to zydeco. They were a local sensation and found success with the single, “It’s Hard To Get,” recorded for a local Louisiana-based label.
Buckwheat’s especially powerful and haunting version of the classic "Cryin' in the Streets" appears on the benefit album for Hurricane Katrina recovery, .
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