Lil Buck & The Top Cats
Lil Buck & The Top Cats
Genres: rhythm and blues
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About Lil Buck & The Top Cats
Lil' Buck Sinegal (Paul Alton Sinegal, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, January 14, 1944 - June 10, 2019) was an American blues and zydeco guitarist and singer. In the late 1960’s Sinegal recorded his own instrumentals, including "Cat Scream" and "Monkey in a Sack", for the La Louisiane Records label. He worked as a session musician for Excello, and played with Clifton Chenier for a long time. In addition he worked with Lil' Bob, Rockin' Dopsie and Fernest Arceneaux. He co-founded the Lafayette-based "Cowboy Stew Blues Revue" together with C.C. Adcock. In 1999, he was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame. Paul Alton "Lil' Buck" Sinegal (January 14, 1944 – June 10, 2019) was an American blues and zydeco guitarist and singer. Paul Alton Sinegal was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. According to researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc, the spelling "Sinegal" rather than "Senegal" was the result of a passport error, which he never corrected. Senegal was nicknamed "Little Buck" (for buckwheat) or "Lil' Buck" because of his short stature. Senegal’s mother, Odette Broussard, played guitar. In the late 1950‘s Senegal began performing with other musicians, such as Carol Fran, James "Thunderbird" Davis, Lee Dorsey, and Joe Tex. Sinegal entered the music industry as a session musician at Excello Records, working with musicians such as Slim Harpo, Lazy Lester. Sinegal recorded the song Rockin' Dopsie along side Katie Webster, and Lil' Bob. In the late 1960’s Sinegal recorded his own instrumentals, including "Cat Scream" and "Monkey in a Sack", for the La Louisiane record label. Sinegal joined Clifton Chenier's band in 1969, and toured regularly with him in Europe and elsewhere over the next decade. Later, in the 1980s and 1990s, Senegal also toured internationally with Buckwheat Zydeco and Rockin' Dopsie. Sinegal founded the Cowboy Stew Blues Revue with C. C. Adcock. In 1999, Sinegal released the album The Buck Starts Here, featuring songs predominantly written and produced by, Allen Toussaint. Critic Richie Unterberger described the record as "a fairly straight blues album with faint or nonexistent traces of zydeco", Sinegal commented: "I am probably more known as a zydeco guitarist... but I've always been a bluesman...Zydeco is the blues. It's basically blues played with accordion. Clifton Chenier's music was blues throughout." Sinegal appeared in the 2015 documentary film I Am the Blues. Sinegal was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame in 1999.
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