Double Time (Leon Redbone album)

Double Time is the second studio album by singer/guitarist Leon Redbone, released in 1977. It peaked at #38 on the Billboard pop album charts.

Track listing

 * 1) "Diddy Wa Diddie" (Blind Blake) – 3:05
 * 2) "Nobody's Sweetheart" (Ernie Erdman, Gus Kahn, Billy Meyers, Elmer Schoebel) – 2:13
 * 3) "Shine On Harvest Moon" (Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth) – 3:21
 * 4) "Crazy Blues" (trad. arr. Perry Bradford) – 4:16
 * 5) "Mississippi Delta Blues" (Jack Neville, Jimmie Rodgers) – 1:44
 * 6) "Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" (Traditional) – 3:43
 * 7) "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton, Maybelle Watson) – 3:10
 * 8) "The Sheik of Araby" (Harry Smith, Ted Snyder, Francis Wheeler) – 2:31
 * 9) "Mississippi River Blues" (Rodgers) – 3:05
 * 10) "Winin' Boy Blues" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 4:17
 * 11) "If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven" (Albert E. Brumley) – 3:18

Personnel

 * Leon Redbone – vocals, guitar, throat tromnet, background whistling on "Crazy Blues"
 * Milt Hinton – bass guitar
 * 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. Bently) - 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"
 * Jerry 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"

Production notes

 * 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 – cover art