page_title: Paul "Lil' Buck" Sinegal
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Paul "Lil' Buck" Sinegal / Career
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le guitariste Paul Senegal au sein de l'orchestre de Clifton Chenier au Palace à Paris English: Guitarist Paul Senegal in the Clifton Chenier Orchestra, in Paris, France
context_page_description: Paul Alton "Lil' Buck" Sinegal was an American blues and zydeco guitarist and singer.
context_section_description: Senegal entered the music industry as a  session musician at Excello Records, working with musicians such as Slim Harpo, Lazy Lester. Senegal recorded with Rockin' Dopsie, as well as Katie Webster and Lil' Bob.  In the late 1960s Senegal recorded his own instrumentals, including "Cat Scream" and "Monkey in a Sack", for the La Louisiane record label.
  Senegal joined Clifton Chenier's band in 1969, and toured regularly with him in Europe and elsewhere over the next decade.  Later, in the 1980s and 1990s, Senegal also toured internationally with Buckwheat Zydeco and Rockin' Dopsie.
  Senegal founded the Cowboy Stew Blues Revue with C. C. Adcock.   In 1999, Senegal released the album The Buck Starts Here, featuring songs predominantly written and produced by Allen Toussaint.  Critic Richie Unterberger described the record as "a fairly straight blues album with faint or nonexistent traces of zydeco", Sinegal commented: "I am probably more known as a zydeco guitarist... [but] I've always been a bluesman...Zydeco is the blues. It's basically blues played with accordion. Clifton Chenier's music was blues throughout."
  Senegal appeared in the 2015 documentary film I Am the Blues.
caption: Paul Sinegal in 1977
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