Time: 80:07
Size: 183.4 MB
Styles: New Orleans blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front
[2:25] 1. Mardi Gras
[3:19] 2. Hey Little Girl
[5:43] 3. Hey Now Baby
[5:32] 4. How Long Has That Train Been Gone
[3:33] 5. I'm Movin' On
[3:54] 6. Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
[3:08] 7. Rum And Coca-Cola
[3:00] 8. Stagger Lee
[3:55] 9. Tell Me Pretty Baby
[3:46] 10. Tipitina
[5:37] 11. Whole Lotta Lovin'
[3:25] 12. 501 Boogie
[3:34] 13. Big Chief
[2:42] 14. Cry To Me
[4:58] 15. Doin' It, Pt. 2
[3:51] 16. Every Day I Have The Blues
[4:09] 17. Junco Partner
[2:51] 18. Lovely Lady
[3:31] 19. Medley She Walks Right In Shake, Rattle & Roll Sick & Tired
[4:17] 20. Mess Around
[2:46] 21. Goin' To The Mardi Gras
Justly worshipped a decade and a half after his death as a founding father of New Orleans R&B, Roy "Professor Longhair" Byrd was nevertheless so down-and-out at one point in his long career that he was reduced to sweeping the floors in a record shop that once could have moved his platters by the boxful.
That Longhair made such a marvelous comeback testifies to the resiliency of this late legend, whose Latin-tinged rhumba-rocking piano style and croaking, yodeling vocals were as singular and spicy as the second-line beats that power his hometown's musical heartbeat. Longhair brought an irresistible Caribbean feel to his playing, full of rolling flourishes that every Crescent City ivories man had to learn inside out (Fats Domino, Huey Smith, and Allen Toussaint all paid homage early and often).
Longhair went to bed on January 30, 1980, and never woke up. A heart attack in the night stilled one of New Orleans' seminal R&B stars, but his music is played in his hometown so often and so reverently you'd swear he was still around. ~bio by Bill Dahl
That Longhair made such a marvelous comeback testifies to the resiliency of this late legend, whose Latin-tinged rhumba-rocking piano style and croaking, yodeling vocals were as singular and spicy as the second-line beats that power his hometown's musical heartbeat. Longhair brought an irresistible Caribbean feel to his playing, full of rolling flourishes that every Crescent City ivories man had to learn inside out (Fats Domino, Huey Smith, and Allen Toussaint all paid homage early and often).
Longhair went to bed on January 30, 1980, and never woke up. A heart attack in the night stilled one of New Orleans' seminal R&B stars, but his music is played in his hometown so often and so reverently you'd swear he was still around. ~bio by Bill Dahl
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