Various Artists - Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol` Box Of New Orleans [Box]

Artist:

Various Artists

UPC:

826663744125

Description:

Includes 80-page booklet with photos, discography and an extensive essay by Chuck Taggart.
Liner Note Author: Chuck Taggart.
It reads splendidly on paper: Shout Factory`s Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol` Box of New Orleans is a traveler`s guide to the legendary city`s rich musical heritage. Over the course of four discs, it attempts to touch on all of the kinds of music associated with New Orleans -- everything from brass bands and piano blues to zydeco, jazz and klezmer -- and represent recordings from the `20s to the modern day. Add an 84-page book, complete with advice on where tourists should go in the Crescent City, and it seems like this is the definitive word on New Orleans. Well, not quite. While the idea of mixing eras is theoretically appealing, since it would emphasize common threads within New Orleans music, it winds up being distracting not only because of the different qualities of recordings, but because the sequencing isn`t logical; instead of leading the listener through the changes, subtly instructing on the similarities between the seemingly dissimilar styles, the box seems like it`s stuck on shuffle-play, whipping between songs without much rhyme or reason. And that haphazard sequencing brings another troubling flaw with the set into sharp relief: the musicians behind the recent recordings simply aren`t a patch on the giants that provide New Orleans music with its heart, soul, blood and bone. Those musicians are here, no doubt -- Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, Allen Toussaint, the Meters, Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis, the Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Huey "Piano" Smith -- are all here, but when they`re combined with solid but undistinguished modern artists, the results are less than definitive. It`s pleasant, and representative of what you`d hear on a trip to New Orleans, and the book is highly instructive, but as a pure, enjoyable listening experience, Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens pales next to previous New Orleans sets. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Track Listing:

DISC 1:

1. Welcome to New Orleans - Galactic/Theryl DeClouet
2. Drop Me Off in New Orleans - Kermit Ruffins
3. I`m Walkin` - Fats Domino
4. Iko Iko - Dr. John
5. Potato Head Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
6. My Darlin` New Orleans - Lil` Queenie & The Percolators
7. Para Donde Vas (Where Are You Going) - The Iguanas
8. Meet the Boyz on the Battlefront - Big Chief Monk Boudreaux
9. Ain`t Got No Home - Clarence "Frogman" Henry
10. Feel Like Funkin` It Up - Rebirth Brass Band
11. Zydeco Gris-Gris - Beausoleil
12. Mother-in-Law - Ernie K-Doe
13. That`s Enough of That Stuff - Marcia Ball
14. Confidential - The Radiators
15. Hey Pooky a-Way - The Meters
16. I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say - Jelly Roll Morton`s New Orleans Jazzmen
17. Foot of Canal Street - Paul Sanchez
18. One Mo Time - Vernal Bagneris & The Cast Of One Mo` Time
19. Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu - Huey "Piano" Smith/The Clowns
20. More Hipper - Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen
21. Release Me - Johnny Adams
22. Preachin` Blues - Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers
23. Jambalaya - Clifton Chenier

DISC 2:

1. Dog Days - Leigh Harris
2. No City Like New Orleans - Earl King
3. Salee Dames, Bon Jour - Don Vappie & The Creole Jazz Serenaders
4. Marshall`s Club - Balfa Toujours
5. You Can Have My Husband - Irma Thomas
6. Go Go - Galactic
7. Not Too Eggy - New Orleans Klezmer All Stars
8. St. James Infirmary - Preservation Hall Jazz Band
9. Going Back to New Orleans - Decon John Moore
10. Hot Tamale Baby - Buckwheat Zydeco
11. Fear, Hate, Envy, Jealousy - Neville Brothers
12. Poop Ain`t Gotta Sucuffle Nomore - James Andrews
13. Mardi Gras Mambo - Hawketts
14. Ice Cream - George Lewis Ragtime Band
15. No Doubt About It - J. Monque`D
16. Don`t You Feel My Leg - The Dirty Dozen Brass Band/Danny Barker/Eddie Bo
17. Dog Hill - Boozoo Chavis
18. Au Bord de Lac Bijou - Zachary Richard
19. Mardi Gras in New Orleans - Tuba Fats` Chosen Few Brass Band

DISC 3:

1. Shrimp and Gumbo - Dave Bartholomew
2. St. Phillip Street Breakdown - Dr. Michael White
3. Going Back to Louisiana - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
4. Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville
5. Saints, The - Coolbone
6. Canaille (You`re Cute, But You`re Sneaky) - Geno Delafose/French Rockin` Boogie
7. Carnival Time - Al Johnson
8. La Negra Tomasa
9. Let the Good Times Roll - Shirley & Lee
10. Broken Windmill, The - Tom McDermott/Evan Christopher
11. Way Down - Champion Jack Dupree
12. Hallelujah - Raymond Anthony Myles/The Rams
13. I Hear You Knocking - Smiley Lewis
14. La Creve De Faim / Starvation - Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
15. Main Street Blues - Red Stick Ramblers
16. Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford
17. Tee-Nah-Nah - Henry Butler
18. Smoke That Fire - New Birth Brass Band
19. Give Him Cornbread - Beau Jocque/Zydeco Hi-Rollers
20. I Like It Like That (Part 1) - Chris Kenner
21. Classified (Version Two) - James Booker
22. Southern Nights - Allen Toussaint

DISC 4:

1. Tipitina - Professor Longhair
2. Party - The Wild Magnolias
3. Dr. Jazz - Ellis Marsalis
4. Ooh Poo Pah Doo - Troy Andrews
5. South of 1-10 - Sonny Landreth
6. Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) - Benny Spellman
7. Right Key But the Wrong Keyhole, The - Charmaine Neville/Reggie Houston
8. Rip It Up - Little Richard
9. Royal Garden Blues - Kid Ory & His Creole Jazz Band
10. Stoned, Drunk & Naked - Anders Osborne
11. Lasissez Faire (Let It Be) - Bruce Daigrepont
12. Digga-Digga-Do - New Orleans Jazz Vipers
13. Tailspin - Walter "Wolfman" Washington
14. Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Lloyd Price
15. Havin` Fun in New Orleans - Eddie Bo
16. King of the Mardi Gras - Tim Laughlin
17. Red Beans - Snooks Eaglin
18. S.U.V. - Mem Shannon & The Membership
19. Tits Yeux Noirs (Little Black Eyes) - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
20. Lazy River - Pete Fountain & His Band
21. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? - Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven

Album Information

Release Date:

10/26/2004

Type:

Collection

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Piano

Label:

Shout! Factory

Producer:

Chuck Taggart (Compilation)

Catalog Number:

37441

Original Release Year:

2004

# of Discs:

4

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Mixed

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