Description
Release Date: 2024
Label: Jasmine
Track List
Disc: 1
- 1 Fats Domino – Walking to New Orleans
- 2 Roy Brown – Good Rocking Tonight
- 3 Jewel King – 3 X 7 = 21
- 4 Fats Domino – Little Bee
- 5 Archibald – Great Big Eyes
- 6 Lloyd Price – Mailman Blues
- 7 The Spiders – You’re the One
- 8 Fats Domino – Swanee River Hop
- 9 Guitar Slim – the Story of My Life
- 10 Smiley Lewis – Real Gone Lover
- 11 Billy Tate – Single Life
- 12 Little Booker – Thinkin’ ‘Bout My Baby
- 13 Tommy Ridgley – Jam Up
- 14 Papa Lightfoot – Wine, Women, Whiskey
- 15 The Hawketts – Mardi Gras Mambo
- 16 Charles ‘Hungry’ Williams – So Glad She’s Mine
- 17 Big Boy Myles – Who’s Been Fooling You?
- 18 Li’l Millet and His Creoles – Rich Woman
- 19 Bobby Mitchell – Try Rock and Roll
- 20 Roy Montrell – (Every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone
- 21 Little Richard – Slippin’ and Slidin’ (Peepin’ and Hidin’)
- 22 Paul Gayten – the Music Goes Round and Round
- 23 Amos Milburn – Chicken Shack
- 24 Roy Brown – Saturday Night
- 25 Smiley Lewis – Shame, Shame, Shame
- 26 Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & the Clowns – Little Liza Jane
- 27 Sugar Boy Crawford – She’s Gotta Wobble (When She Walks)
- 28 Dave Bartholomew – the Monkey
- 29 Professor Longhair – Look What You’re Doin’ to Me (Oooh-Wee, Baby)
- 30 Earl King – Well-O, Well-O, Well-O Baby
- 31 Eddie Bo – Oh-Oh
- 32 Art Neville – Cha Dooky-Doo
Disc: 2
- 1 Jerry Byrne – Lights Out
- 2 Earl King – Everybody’s Carried Away
- 3 Eddie Lang – Easy Rockin’
- 4 Mac Rebennack – Storm Warning
- 5 Huey and Jerry – Sea Cruise
- 6 Bobby Marchan & the Clowns – Rockin’ Behind the Iron Curtain
- 7 Robert Parker – All Nite Long Pt. 1
- 8 Lenny Capello & the Dots – Cotton Candy
- 9 Lee Allen – Creole Alley
- 10 Joe & Ann – Gee Baby
- 11 Al Johnson – Carnival Time
- 12 Jessie Hill – Ooh Poo Pah Doo Pt. 2
- 13 Fats Domino – Before I Grow Too Old
- 14 Bobby Charles – I Just Want You
- 15 Frankie Ford – What’s Going on
- 16 Joe Jones – I Love You Still
- 17 Aaron Neville – Over You
- 18 Jimmy Rivers Combo – the Blue Eagle Pt. 1
- 19 Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry – Little Suzy
- 20 Tommy Ridgley – Should I Ever Love Again
- 21 Ernie K-Doe – Real Man
- 22 Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & the Clowns – Somebody Told It
- 23 Ford Eaglin – Travelin’ Mood
- 24 Prince la la – She Put the Hurt on Me
- 25 Chris Kenner – Packin’ Up
- 26 Blazer Boy – New Orleans Twist
- 27 Eddie Bo – Check Mr. Popeye
- 28 Irma Thomas – I Did My Part
- 29 Earl King – Always a First Time
- 30 Reggie Hall – the Joke
- 31 Lee Dorsey – Behind the Eight Ball
- 32 Shirley & Lee – Don’t Stop Now
- 33 Fats Domino – So Long
Notes
John Broven’s iconic, critically-acclaimed tome “Walking To New Orleans”, subtitled “The Story Of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues”, was published in August 1974 as a spinoff of Blues Unlimited magazine It was, in Broven’s own words: ”An original study of New Orleans R&B, chronicling the exciting rise and dramatic fall of the city’s R&B era, from the 1940s through the 1960s, focusing mainly on the artists’ history, on records. The story is enhanced by first-hand interviews with many of the leading exponents of the local music scene, including musicians, producers, songwriters, disc jockeys, jukebox operators, and studio and record-label owners.” To celebrate it’s 50th Anniversary, John has compiled a belated “aural accompaniment” to his fine book. It’s not a typical “New Orleans’ Greatest Hits” set, as there are already plenty on the market, but largely a collection of less readily known recordings by the featured artists.
