Thursday, January 17, 2013

GIVE THE BEADS TO BOBBY

If you dig the sound of New Orleans, you're probably well aware of the spectacle of Mardi Gras. That's when music lovers and boneheads alike descend on the French Quarter and try to cram as much music alcohol, and all around idiocy (that, courtesy of visiting party monsters) into a day or two of letting it all hang out, the crescendo of which occurs on Fat Tuesday. After a recent post of Huey "Piano" Smith's "Don't You Know Yockomo" at Diddy Wah, it occurred to me that Fat Tuesday will be here before you know it, so I checked. It's early this year, February 12 to be exact. Yikes! Time to start scavenging. Though a handful of songs do not a party mix make, these will get you started. There'll be more from other New Orleans artists in the next few weeks, provided I don't flake.

If these songs don't seem very wild to your sophisticated ears, you're missing the point. You need to walk in the streets of New Orleans and hear music like this streaming out of the windows of shops, bars and homes. If you weren't in a rush to get anywhere, you'd stop and rock the groove.

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Listen:
Huey "Piano" Smith - Don't You Know Yockomo mp3 at Diddy Wah
Huey "Piano" Smith - Would You Believe It mp3 at Modern Kicks
Huey "Piano" Smith - Don't You Just Know It mp3 at Dalston Oxfam Shop
Huey "Piano" Smith - Popeye mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People
Shirley and Lee - The Flirt mp3 at Diddy Wah
Shirley and Lee - Feel So Good mp3 at Rocky 52
Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller mp3 at Dalston Oxfam Shop

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