''Taking It Home'' is a studio album by the

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musician

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, released in 1988. Zydeco supported the album with a North American tour. The title was also used for a 1990 video release of a Buckwheat Zydeco show recorded in London. The album peaked at No. 104 on the ''Billboard'' 200.

Production

The album was produced by Ted Fox. It was recorded with Buckwheat Zydeco's eight-member band, Ils Sont Partis.

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contributed a guitar solo to the cover of "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad".

Critical reception

The ''

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'' wrote that Buckwheat "mixed vibrant, up-to-the-minute sound quality and full production with the kinetic rootsiness of straight-up zydeco." The ''

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'' found the album to be inferior to ''On a Night Like This'', but praised Buckwheat's decision to give "Clapton a chance to outdo his old solo on a romping, rollicking 'Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad'." The ''

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'' stated: "Feasting off the Creole culture's self-renaissance of the '70s and '80s, uckwheats been able to move zydeco into the contemporary marketplace without sacrificing its roots. That is the major accomplishment here." The ''

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'' thought that ''Taking It Home'' "finally crosses the line and becomes the nightmare purists always warned about... With few exceptions, the overblown, overly fast, repetitive pop tunes are mindless mainstream music with an accordion."

Track listing

References

{{Authority control 1988 albums Island Records albums Buckwheat Zydeco albums