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- Date Released: April 16, 2001
- Genre: Blues
- Style: Soul/R&B, Louisiana Blues
- Label: Fantasy / Specialty
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We Say...
This is a wild and woolly collection. New Orleans was a recording mecca during the '50s, producing huge national hits by such rock and R&B pioneers as Little Richard, Lloyd Price and Fats Domino. But the real story was the steady stream of regional and secondary R&B hits it produced, many of them by players native to the Crescent City's fertile music scene. And while there were certainly hits on local labels like Jewel and Paula, New Orleans also held a special attractions for labels like New York's Atlantic and Los Angeles' Imperial and Specialty. These two collections offer up a superb sampling of New Orleans music of the '50s, from the blues of Guitar Slim to the Zydeco of Clifton Chenier — but the real emphasis is placed firmly in the city's peerless R&B scene.
Volume 2 continues mining the same rich vein of its predecessor: outstanding and largely overlooked tracks by some of New Orleans finest R&B artists. Two tracks by Lloyd Price and four by Professor Longhair again anchor the set, while two by the overlooked singer Willie Johnson — "Say Baby" and "That Night" — are its biggest revelations. But the real finds here are Roy Montrell's "Oooh-Wow," Earl King's "Eating and Sleeping," Zydeco king Clifton Chenier's "Squeeze Box Boogie" and songwriter Bumps Blackwell's own version of "Good Golly Miss Molly."
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| 01. |  |
Bouncin' The Boogie - The Royal Kings |
1:59 |
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| 02. | |
Got A Brand New Baby - Little Mr. Midnight With Paul Gayten Band |
2:19 |
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| 03. | |
4 O'Clock Blues - Little Mr. Midnight With Paul Gayten Band |
2:43 |
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| 04. | |
Restless Heart
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2:36 |
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| 05. | |
Ain't It A Shame
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2:42 |
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| 06. | |
Say Baby - Willie Johnson |
2:17 |
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| 07. | |
That Night - Willie Johnson |
2:39 |
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| 08. | |
Eating And Sleeping
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2:17 |
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| 09. | |
Heavy Sugar - Lloyd Lambert Band |
2:52 |
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| 10. | |
Think It Over
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2:30 |
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| 11. | |
So Glad You're Mine - Ernest Kador |
2:16 |
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| 12. | |
That Girl I Married - Big Boy Myles And The Sha-Weez |
2:09 |
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| 13. | |
Squeeze Box Boogie
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1:58 |
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| 14. | |
Good Golly Miss Molly - Bumps Blackwell |
3:03 |
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| 15. | |
Oooh-wow - Roy Montrell |
2:30 |
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| 16. | |
Stepping High - Edgar Blanchard |
1:52 |
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| 17. | |
All Around The World - Li'l Millet |
2:24 |
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| 18. | |
Oooh-Whee Baby
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2:11 |
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| 19. | |
Just Because
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2:48 |
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| 20. | |
Cry Pretty Baby
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2:19 |
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| 21. | |
Look What You're Doing To Me
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2:27 |
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| 22. | |
Misery
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2:01 |
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| 23. | |
Looka, No Hair
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2:07 |
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| 24. | |
Rock 'N' Roll Fever - The Monitors |
2:26 |
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| 25. | |
Carry On - Jerry Byrne |
1:57 |
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25 Total Tracks, 59:22 Total Length
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