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  • Buckwheat Zydeco's Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural Jr. Dies At 68

    09/24/2016 10:23:12 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 24 replies
    NPR ^ | September 24, 2016 | MARK MOBLEY
    Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr., an international ambassador for Louisiana roots music with his genre-leaping band Buckwheat Zydeco, died early Saturday morning. He was 68. Dural died of lung cancer at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette, La. In August, Cynthia Simien, an agent and manager who is married to Zydeco musician Terrance Simien, and Dural's daughter Tomorrow Dural started a GoFundMe account to defray Dural's medical expenses. Listen to Buckwheat Zydeco perform in 2009 on World Cafe Given the easy familiarity of the zydeco sound — accordion, washboard, a driving beat and infectious energy — in everything...