Description
Release Date: 2019
Label: Factory of Sounds
Track List
1 Fats Domino – Walking to New Orleans
2 Lee Dorsey – Ya Ya
3 Aaron Neville – Every Day
4 Mac Rebennack (DR. John) – the Point
5 Clifton Chenier – Ay-Tete Fee
6 Chris Kenner – I Like It Like That (Part 1)
7 Allen Toussaint – Sweetie-Pie
8 Earl King – Trick Bag
9 Barbara George – I Know (You Don’t Love Me No More)
10 Johnny Adams – a Losing Battle
11 Sugar Boy Crawford – Jock-A-Mo
12 Irma Thomas – It’s Raining
13 Al Johnson – Carnival Time
14 Sidney Bechet – When the Saints Go Marching in
15 Art Neville – All These Things
16 Smiley Lewis – I Hear You Knocking
17 Professor Longhair – Tipitina
18 Percy Mayfield – Louisiana
19 Lloyd Price – Stagger Lee
20 Snooks Eaglin – St. James Infirmary
21 D.L. Menard – the Back Door (La Porte D’en Arriere)
22 Frankie Ford – Roberta
23 Annie Laurie & Paul Gayten – I’ll Never Be Free
24 Benny Spellman – Lipstick Traces
25 Jessie Hill – Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Part 2)
26 The Spiders – Witchcraft
27 Louis Armstrong – Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
28 James Booker – Gonzo
29 Ernie K-Doe – I Cried My Last Tear
30 L’il Millet & His Creoles – Rich Woman
31 Shirley & Lee – Let the Good Times Roll
Notes
New Orleans surely has one of the richest musical cultures of any metropolitan area in the world. In addition to being hailed as the birthplace of jazz, it has also spawned nationally successful and creative musicians in every imaginable musical genre: the blues like Snooks Eaglin, soul singers like Irma Thomas, Aaron Neville, and Lee Dorsey, the R&B from Ernie K-Doe, and genre-hopping figures like Allen Toussaint and Dr. John, to name just a few. There are tracks from many well-known figures, Clifton Chenier, Professor Longhair, a cut of bluesy jazz made famous by Louis Armstrong and a wave in the direction of Latin music, the funk, the brass and of course Mardi Gras tunes and the many tunes for horn lines.
