In addition to all the live music I wrote about yesterday, I spent a very enjoyable hour and a half in the Louisiana Music Factory at 210 Decatur Street in the French Quarter (504) 586-1094. They have a series of listening stations and I worked through all of them. The following New Orleans artists made the cut after much deliberation. There were some people from Canada there and we shared favorites. When I checked out the guy at the desk, who looked even older than me, said this was great taste and the best collection he handled that day, made my day. Hope you enjoy them. The links all go to the Louisiana Music Factory where you can order them.
Irma Thomas - Wish Someone Would Care/Take A Look – provides two albums from her early days. Wonderful soul music, mostly ballads. There is Time is on My Side made famous by the Stones. (2007 Big Easy Music Award Nominee - R&B, Best Female, and Best Album - After the Rain)
Marva Wright - Do Right Woman - The Soul Of New Orleans – gives very blues soul. She has been around a while and still performs in town. (2007 Big Easy Music Award Nominee - R&B) (see cover below)
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Papa Grows Funk Live At The Leaf - I heard this group at last year’s French Quarter Festival., organ driven funk. (2007 Big Easy Music Award Nominee - Funk)
Putumayo Presents Kermit Ruffins – here he does old style jazz in the mode of Louis Armstrong. I also got Kermits’ Live at Vaughn’s which has more recent work.
Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen - Pin Your Spin – This is a very smooth bluesy funk. He used to back up or open for Bonnie Raitt
Very Best Of The Meters – more funk by the group that inspired many others
Little Freddie King - You Don't Know What I Know – old style blues, a little Delta and Chicago style
Fats & Friends - Filmed at the Storyville nightclub in New Orleans, “Fats Domino and Friends features three performers who virtually defined rock 'n' roll piano in the '50's Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles – playing individually and collectively, and joined onstage by Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood.”
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