Lil Buck Sinegal: "Down Home Blues" - Live from Lafayette (2014)

Lil Buck Sinegal covering 'Down Home Blues' at the Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette, Louisiana on August 15, 2014. Lil’ Buck Sinegal, “Master of the Stratocaster,” from Lafayette, Louisiana, is the guy Eric Clapton says is the best blues guitarist alive. His career has spanned more than five decades, with over 300 recordings, having played and recorded with Clifton Chenier, Henry Gray, Rockin’ Dopsie, Buckwheat Zydeco, and other blues artists, including Grammy-winning efforts with Paul Simon’s 1987 album “Graceland.” Lil’ Buck Sinegal (Paul Alton Sinegal) was born on January 14, 1944 in his parents Lafayette, LA home on St. Charles Street. Sinegal, the fourth of six children born to his Creole parents, Joseph Senegal and Odette Broussard, Lil’ Buck honors the tradition of family ties seen so often in Southwest Louisiana. Despite his career which has taken him to many parts of the world, Lil’ Buck maintains his family home as a secondary residence where he and his close friends gather to cook, barbecue, and have refreshments while reminiscing and telling stories … Around the age of ten or eleven (1954-1955), Sinegal received his first guitar- a Harmony, from his blind uncle from New Iberia. Within a short time, Sinegal began to figure out licks and parts of tunes. It was at this time that Sinegal began to earn money playing the guitar down at the corner newsstand. He would sit outside on the corner and some of the newsstand patrons would put coins in his guitar to encourage him. Sinegal would give his grandmere the money. She kept it in a sock. When he wanted some ice cream or a soda, she would pull some change from the sock and give Sinegal some coins. Playing the guitar replaced Sinegal’s dancing activities … Within a year or so after receiving the guitar from his uncle, Sinegal had an amazing encounter with Raymond “Swank” Monet, a very talented Lafayette Creole guitarist. Listening to Sinegal reminisce about this encounter, one gets the feeling it was a “mystical” experience. Sinegal credits the encounter as the event that sealed his fate with the guitar and music. More at americancajunfestival.de/cms/index.php/en/bands/101-paul-sinegal http://wwoz.org