Other Mixes By Little Spencer Boys
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Crescent City Rock and Soul
Artist | Song | |
The ReBirth Brass Band | Do Watcha Wanna | |
Huey (Piano) Smith | Don't You Just Know It | |
Frankie Ford | Sea Cruise | |
Professor Longhair | Go To The Mardi Gras | |
Huey (Piano) Smith | Rockin' Pheumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu | |
Amos Milburn | Chicken Shack Boogie | |
Roy Brown | Let The Four Winds Blow | |
Alvin Robinson | Down Home Girl | |
Shirley and Lee | Let The Good Times Roll | |
Joe Jones | You Talk Too Much | |
Robert Parker | Barefootin' | |
Sugarboy Crawford | Jockomo | |
Ernie K. Doe | Mother-in-law | |
Barbara George | I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) | |
Benny Spellman | Fortune Teller | |
Chris Kenner | I Like It Like That | |
Earl King | Come On - Parts 1 and 2 | |
Ernie K. Doe | Te Ta Te Ta Ta | |
Jessie Hill | Ohh Poo Pah Doo (Part 1) | |
Lee Dorsey | Ya Ya | |
Little Richard | Long Tall Sally | |
Lloyd Price | Lawdy Miss Clawdy | |
Ernie K. Doe | A Certain Girl | |
Smiley Lewis | I Hear You Knockin' | |
Lee Dorsey | Ride Your Pony | |
The Neville Brothers | Hey Pokey-A-Way | |
The Showmwn | It Will Stand | |
Aaron Neville | Tell It Like It Is | |
The Showmen | 39-21-46 | |
The Meters | Fire On The Bayou | |
Comment:
(From www.allmusic.com:New Orleans R&B:
Primarily a piano- and horn-driven style, New Orleans R&B is the next step over from its more bluesier practitioners. There's a cheerful good-naturedness to the style that infuses the music with a good-time feel, no matter how somber the lyrical text. The music itself uses a distinctively "lazy" feel, with all of its somewhat complex rhythms falling just a hair behind the beat, making for what is known as "the sway." The vocals can run the full emotional gamut, from laid-back crooning to full-throated gospel shouting, while the horn lines provide a perfect droning backdrop. Enlivened by Caribbean rhythms, an unrelenting party atmosphere, and the distinctive "second-line" strut of the Dixieland music so indigenous to the area, there's nothing quite as intoxicating as the sound of Crescent City R&B. - Cub Koda
First and foremost, the music is fun! The shuffle beat is easy to dance (or at least nod you head) to. The lyrics are heavy on the nonsense and silly content-wise, hey what's not to like?
Additionally the music is one of those genres that has had an impact outside its roots. Anyone who knows of `East Coast Beach music' (`The Myrtle Beach Sound') (the dance style is The Shag) is hearing an offshoot of New Orleans - most directly here "It Will Stand" and "39-21-45" both by the Showman.
Finally, the early bands of the British Invasion routinely covered these tunes. Look to Dave Edmunds with "I Hear You Knocking", The Yardbirds with "A Certain Girl", and the Stones (among many others) with "Fortune Teller" and certainly "Down Home Girl"
Why Little Richard? His band members were all crescent city musicians. Why no Fats Domino? Fats is here as a session man. find the track!
Feedback:
Man, this is superb love it all but the brace of Huey (Piano) Smith cuts for me are a particular hi-lite.
Killer stuff. If the Exhibits were functioning, I would add this to
Where You Got Those Shoes: New Orleans.
Where You Got Those Shoes: New Orleans.
Love this stuff, Huey, The Professor, Ernie K, the Meters. A favorite sound for sure.
This is absolutely fantastic. I've been meaning to do a two-disc monster of New Orleans stuff for quite some time...
so much good stuff here my head is spinning
i am on the bandwagon. this is great.
i dig it!
classic stuff...
C'mon Smiley..., LET'S GO!!! (It's all in the gumbo!)
MoTW
Yowza!