Little Buck

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Creole Zydeco and Blues guitarist, Paul Alton Sinegal (or Senegal), known to the Zydeco and Blues Nation as “Lil Buck” (or "Little Buck"), was born on Friday, January 14, 1944 in his Creole parent’s (Joseph Senegal and Odette Broussard) home on St. Charles Street in Lafayette, Louisiana. He began playing music at the age of ten when he received a Harmony guitar from his is blind uncle from New Iberia. “Lil Buck” earned money playing the guitar down at the corner newsstand and eventually met Raymond "Swank" Monet, a very talented Lafayette Creole guitarist. Monet, seeing that Sinegal did not have any strings on his guitar, borrowed his bike and brought back guitar strings, and put them on Lil’ Buck’s guitar. For three consecutive days “Lil Buck” and Monet spent many hours together with their guitars on Sinegal's front porch on St. Charles Street where Monet showed “Lil Buck” how to play chord progressions and riffs. Not long after, He formed his first band called the “Jive Five” where he earned the nickname “Lil Buck.” In 1958, he formed the “Top Cats”, a fifteen-piece band with a rhythm section (bass, drums, guitar, keyboard), horn section and male and female vocalists and backup singers. He later became part of Clifton Chenier’s “Red Hot Louisiana Band” where his blues guitar riffs became legendary. He later worked with Rockin’ Dopsie, Fernest Arceneaux, Buckwheat Zydeco and Lil Bob. He played on Paul Simon’s “Graceland” CD and worked as a session guitarist for artist like S

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Best of Bo

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Funky Funky New Orleans 5

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The Instant & Minit Story CD 2

The Complete New Orleans Recordings 1966-1970

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Soul of New Orleans 1958-1962

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I Don't Have To Steal What's Mine

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Seven B 45

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R&B Rarities

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The Instant And Minit Story

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I Pity The Fool: The Duke Records Story 1952-1962

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Product Placement

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Little Boy Blue

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