Thursday, February 16, 2023

AND I THOUGHT IT WAS SOME SMART HIPPIE.


I know exactly when I first heard Professor Longhair. Back when we were in our twenties my brother, ever the music fiend, bought his New Orleans Piano LP because he'd heard so many people referencing his music. It was the first time my brothers and I realized that there even was a New Orleans-centric type of music. Yeah, rabbit hole, this way.


New Orleans Piano was a great place to start the dive. A 1972 compilation of early 45s and unreleased material recorded from 1949-1953, this is early stuff, the very stuff digested by subsequent New Orleans greats Fats Domino, Huey "Piano" Smith, and (him again) Allen Toussaint, among many others.
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