Description
Release Date: 2010
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Track List
- Just A Little While To Stay Here – Eureka Brass Band
- Shine-Hambone – Shoeshine Boy
- Tiger Rag – Freddie L. Small
- Blackberries! – Dora Bliggen
- Red White And Blue Got The Golden Band – Mardi Gras Indians
- Times Done Changed – Sister Dora Alexander
- Dark Was The Night – Rev. Lewis Jackson & Charlotte Rucell
- Back To The Time – Choir Of Pilgrim Baptist Church
- We Shall Walk Through The Streets Of The City (dirge) – Doc Paulin
- We Shall Walk Through The Streets Of The City (march) – Doc Paulin
- Bucket’s Got A Hole In It – Punch Miller with Samuel B. Charters
- Spooky Drums #1 – Baby Dodds
- Milenberg Joys – Emile Barnes
- Clarinet Marmalade – The Six And Seven-Eights String Band Of New Orleans
- High Society – Snooks Eaglin
- Careless Love – Lonnie Johnson
- Lonesome Road – Billie And De De Pierce with Emile Barnes
- Corrine, Corrina – Kid Clayton
- Saint James Infirmary -Snooks Eaglin
- Take Your Big Leg Off Me/Easy Rider/Mama Don’t ‘Low No Music Playing Here – H.J. Bolusseau
- Rattlesnake Boogie – Champion Jack Dupree
- Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone – Roosevelt Sykes
- Jimmy’s Blues – Kid Clayton
- C.C. Rider – Lonnie Johnson
- Shake It And Break It – Emile Barnes And Lawrence Tocca with Billie Pierce
- Lord, Lord, Lord – Eureka Brass Band
Notes
From street parades to nightclubs, from churches to dance halls, music has been essential to New Orleans’ unique culture. These sounds that emanated from the Crescent City have played a key role in the evolution of American music. Spanning improvised, polyrhythmic, call & response drum performances on the streets of Congo Sq. To symphony orchestras & opera houses that, although segregated, were open to whites, Creoles & slaves, some of the 20th century’s most creative & influential music emerged from the expressive melting pot of diverse musical styles in New Orleans.
