Mitch Woods - Big Easy Boogie

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2006
Styles: Blues
Time: 46:24
Size: 107,0 MB
Art: Full

(4:00) 1. Big Easy Boogie
(3:38) 2. Thought I Heard Satchmo Say
(3:46) 3. Fallin' for You
(3:26) 4. Counting the Days
(3:44) 5. Mojo Mambo
(3:04) 6. Crescent City Flyer
(3:31) 7. Heart and Soul to You
(3:09) 8. Short, Sweet and Tender
(3:06) 9. Back in My Arms Again
(3:25) 10. I Left My Baby at the Mardi Gras Cryin'
(3:51) 11. New Gert Town Blues
(2:59) 12. I'm Ready
(4:42) 13. The Ballad of Dr. Daddy-O

Singer/pianist Mitch Woods, in addition to playing and recording with his regular band, the Rocket 88s, has devoted some of his discs to tributes to his blues, jump blues, and boogie-woogie heroes, particularly Keeper of the Flame, which features John Lee Hooker and James Cotton. Big Easy Boogie, as its name suggests, is Woods' salute to the music of New Orleans. The audio portion is a studio recording made in November 2000 that finds him fronting a band of New Orleans all-stars including such septuagenarian veterans as drummer Earl Palmer and saxophonist Herb Hardesty, with Dave Bartholomew, known as Fats Domino's co-writer/producer, producing and playing trumpet. Appropriately, Woods' songs are in a second-line New Orleans style, and the band plays them that way. This session in which the nominal frontman, very much a traditionalist devoted to the idea of re-creating vintage musical styles, frequently takes a backseat to these seasoned sidemen, each of whom is old enough to be his father. -- Allmusic.

Big Easy Boogie
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