Description
Release Date: 2007
Label: Independent
Track List
- New Orleans On A Saturday Night
- Streetcar Run Right By My Door
- Nothing Two Loving Hearts Can’t Do
- Where Were You
- The Mirror Of Love
- You Burn Me Twice…Shame On Me
- Streetcar Keeps Rollin’
- Those People Don’t Live Here No More
- True Love Is Gone
- Do You Miss Me
Personnel
- Al Farrell – keyboards, vocals
- Allen Linker – trumpet
- Jerry Jumonville – saxophones
- Don Delahoussaye – saxophones
- Jerry Verges – trombone
- James Rivers – flute
- Cranston Clements – guitar
- Ralph Bowers – bass, percussion
- Harry Ravain – drums
Notes
For all the New Orleans music stories that become part of the city’s funky little canon, there are many more, through circumstance, which slip through the cracks. Farrell, who honed his piano chops alongside James Booker, has for a long time been among them. Farrell, a Fortier High School graduate (class of ’62), was a veteran of New Orleans’ classic ’50s prom-band sound, like the Dukes of Rhythm, the Jokers, the Playboys and the Satellites — the underage kids who hung around French Quarter clubs, ate and drank beer at Ye Olde College Inn, and played teen dances. (A young Mac Rebennack, who attended Jesuit High School and played with Ronnie Barron and the Delinquents, was among them.) Farrell’s career nearly hit the skids when he disobeyed parental orders in the late ’50s and traveled to Biloxi to play with a popular DJ, but once he was allowed out of the house again, he rebounded and put together the band the Counts, with which he played from 1959 until 1967, when he graduated from UNO. Fats Domino went to see the Counts and sat at the bar with Farrell talking afterward. The group also backed up Benny Spellman, Snooks Eaglin, Shirley and Lee, Earl King and others.
