Monday, March 3, 2014

SHOW US YOUR 78S

Tuesday, March 4 is Fat Tuesday. You do know what that means right? It's the day you get it all out of your system, one last blow out, traditionally the day before Ash Wednesday, a day in which practicing Christians straighten up and fly right, for forty days anyway, in observance of Lent. For a particular breed though, it's just about beads and breasts and party 'til you puke. You know them. Then there's that other group, the group that digs the rich cultural history of the carnival season, including the music. There is a subgroup of that, a group I really admire, and feel a kind of absentee kinship with. They're the locals, the ones who get more into it. They know where the backstreet Indian showdowns are, when Ernie K. Doe is on the air, what tiny bar Professor Longhair's cousin is playing in, and where to get 78s. Everyone I know that has lived, or currently lives, in New Orleans, has been in that last group. Some weird sort of pride about that. West Coast representin'.

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 Listen: 
Al Tousan (Allen Toussaint) - Cow Cow Blues mp3
at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Dave Bartholomew - Carnival Time mp3 at Home of the Groove
Eddie Bo - Check Mr. Popeye mp3
at Probe Is Turning-On the People
Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Pt 1 mp3
(via DivShare) at Junk Shop Juke Box
Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Pt 2 mp3
(via DivShare) at Junk Shop Juke Box
The Showmen - It Will Stand mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & The Clowns – Don’t You Just Know It mp3 at Augasm
Al Tousan (Allen Toussaint) - Moo Moo mp3
at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Bobby Marchan - Get Down With It mp3
at Beware of the Blog
Shirley and Lee - Let the Good Times Roll mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Lee Dorsey - Yes We Can, Pt 1 mp3
at Boogie Woogie Flu
Lee Dorsey - Yes We Can, Pt 2 mp3
at Videogotz  
Huey "Piano" Smith - Would You Believe It mp3
at Modern Kicks
Jessie Hill - Oogsey Moo mp3
at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Jessie Hill - Whip It On Me mp3
at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Shirley and Lee - Feel So Good mp3
at Rocky 52 
Lee Dorsey - Holy Cow mp3
at Probe Is Turning-On the People
Al Tousan (Allen Toussaint) - Pelican Parade mp3
at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban  
Huey "Piano" Smith - Popeye mp3
at Probe Is Turning-On the People 
Vintage ranting
Ernie-K Doe on WWOZ, New Orleans (1980s) mp3
at Beware of the Blog An hour and ten minutes of K Doe going off, DJing, ranting and actually playing some records.
Listen live:
WWOZ "Guardians of the Groove"
streaming here

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