The Word Is Out On Buckwheat Zydeco

Reuters News Service: "Could Buckwheat Zydeco become a household name? Network television, Hollywood, national magazines and newspapers and a major record label have climbed aboard his bandwagon."

Buffalo News: "Buckwheat is taking zydeco music places it's never gone before -- onto a national record label, into football stadium rock concerts, MTV..."

Philadelphia Inquirer: "Buckwheat is on a roll...It seems as if a guy with a whole-grain nickname is poised to become the next big thing."

ABOUT OPENING FOR U2 AT THE ORANGE BOWL IN MIAMI:

Miami Herald: "From a dancing perspective, the good stuff came first. Opening for U2 was (Louisiana) fixture Buckwheat Zydeco, whose houserocking groove prodded those who still hadn't found their seats into dancing in the aisles."

ABOUT THEIR LIVE SHOW:

Wall Street Journal: "Buck and the band spit out the kind of crackling music that's been missing since the heyday of Stax Records...On stage the attack is relentless...Stanley Dural has hit his stride."

Washington Post: "In front of a sellout crowd desperately searching for a little dancing room Buckwheat Zydeco delivered on their promise to play till closing time. And then some...Dynamic live performances."

New York Times: "Buckwheat Zydec is spearheading the hybrid Creole dance music's move into rock venues. Mr. Dural's playing was expressive, soulful, dynamically varied and rhythmically incisive."

Los Angeles Times: "Buckwheat Zydeco inspires a mouthwatering menu...The only reason no one was doing the two-step was that the dance floor was too crowded."

Vancouver Sun: "Those who were lucky enough to catch his dynamite show will testify to his otherworldly power to set the feet a- stomping."

Toronto Sun: "If you weren't moving to the music, you just weren't listening to the wavy, foot-stomping dance music of Buckwheat Zydeco."

(NYC) Village Voice: "Having packed the joint, Buckwheat and his Ils Sont Partis Band proceed to rock it to the ground...There was no way to cram another body onto the dance floor...drove the audience nuts."

Boston Rock: "I call them hot...Buckwheat comes to center stage and proceeds to blow everyone away...this reviewer wants to move to the bayou."

San Francisco Bay Guardian: "Kept the floor packed with frenzied dancers while the rest of the packed house bounced or swayed in their seats, clapped their hands and stomped their feet."

Dallas Times Herald: "After years of playing small clubs and parties, Buckwheat and his band are a hot item."

Rockbill: "Treat yourself to a good ole time and see Buckwheat Zydeco live!"

Rochester (NY) Times Union: "Credit Buckwheat as the artist most likely to succeed in giving zydeco it's widest exposure."

(Cleveland) Scene: "Music this joyous has to be seen to be fully enjoyed."

St.Louis Post-Dispatch: "The concert certainly did its job of moving the feet for the entirety of two hour-long sets...The result was just a plain old great time had by all in attendance."

Cambridge (MA) Chronicle: "Buckwheat Zydeco cooked, scraped and romped its way through two sold out shows...the overflow crowd for the second show - most of whom stood in line for at least 45 minutes -- were ready for a good time and they were not disappointed."

New Haven (CT) Record-Journal: "Hot enough to make you put stamps on your forehead and write the French Quarter zip code on your shirt pocket."

(New Orleans) Wavelength: "If (he) appears in your area he is not to be missed...get ready to dance."

(Burlington (VT) Vanguard Press: "(He) has toured nationally, packing in huge audiences everywhere...Zydeco, particularly Buckwheat's brand, is a dancer's dream."

Winston-Salem (NC) Journal: "His musical formula is working...the band is in constant demand."

Dayton Daily News/Journal Herald: "Tearing up the nation's nightclub circuit since 1979, (they) have developed pockets of intensely loyal fans wherever they've played."

(Kalamazoo MI) Gazette: "If you can't dance to (Buckwheat), vous etes mort."

Welcomat (Philadelphia): "The funkiest, hottest, most rockin-est live band ever to hold a stage...tore up the house...the bar sold a lot of beer...from start to finish a cathartic groove-a-thon... I've just elected Buckwheat to the real-life top ten."

New Times (Phoenix): "'Best Show of the Year' honors...this has got to be one of the most exciting live bands working these days...simply stupendous."

Cincinnati Post: "His dance-crazed shows have been hotter than Tabasco Sauce...He's hot; he's now...As the craze for all things Louisianan spreads...no sound has caught on faster than the spicy musical gumbo called zydeco. And no zydeco performer has caught on faster than Buckwheat Zydeco."

Syracuse Post Standard: "Dancing made the crowd thirsty, so much so the hotel ran out of several kinds of beer."

Buffalo News: "The show wasn't so much a concert as the fusing of the band and crowd into a single exhuberance...two hours of undiminished good-time zydeco...left the crowd demanding an encore."

Wavelength (New Orleans): "A super-tight, high-voltage, powerhouse ensemble."

Milwaukee Journal: "The cafe didn't stop shaking until long after he left the stage...Buckwheat established an instant rapport with the audience through his force of personality as well as his music."

Scene (Cleveland): "Buckwheat absoultely took no prisoners...From the moment he took the stage, the space in front of the stage was filled with a mass of wildly dancing fans...hotter than Louisiana tabasco sauce."

Oakland Tribune: "The club was packed with zydeco music lovers who danced the night away...Instantly the dance floor was too small for its users."

Calendar Magazine (San Francisco): "WARNING! After seeing Buckwheat Zydeco perform you may be in a delirium of pure joy and do rash, childish things that will affect you the rest of your life...This has been an unqualified rave."

Independent Florida Alligator (UFla-Gainesville): "Beware! He has come from the dark and steamy bayou country of Louisiana to warp the minds of sensible folk and make them jump around like chimps on crack."