Musician Stanley Dural Jr. dies at 68
NEW ORLEANS — Musician Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr., who rose from a cottonpicking family in southwest Louisiana to introduce zydeco music to the world through his namesake band Buckwheat Zydeco, has died. He was 68.
His longtime manager Ted Fox told The Associated Press that the musician and accordionist died at 1:32 a.m. Saturday morning Louisiana time at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette, La. He had suffered from lung cancer.