Album
Classic Sounds of New Orleans from Smithsonian Folkways
Various Artists
2010Jazz · Music · Blues
Street-level field recordings illuminate Crescent City contrasts.
Tracks
- 1Just a Little While to Stay HereEureka Brass Band3:59
- 2Shine–HamboneShoeshine boy1:05
- 3Tiger RagFreddie L. Small1:45
- 4Blackberries!Dora Bliggen0:21
- 5Red White and Blue Got the Golden BandMardi Gras Indians5:11
- 6Times Done ChangedSister Dora Alexander1:27
- 7Dark Was the NightRev. Lewis Jackson & Charlotte Rucell0:56
- 8Back to the TimeChoir of Pilgrim Baptist Church2:18
- 94:03
- 103:05
- 11Bucket's Got a Hole In ItPunch Miller2:17
- 12Spooky Drums #1Baby Dodds2:24
- 13Milenberg JoysEmile Barnes3:07
- 14Clarinet MarmaladeThe Six and Seven-Eight String Band of New Orleans2:11
- 151:37
- 163:54
- 175:42
- 18Corrine, CorrinaKid Clayton4:23
- 192:23
- 202:23
- 21Rattlesnake BoogieChampion Jack Dupree3:04
- 22Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm GoneRoosevelt Sykes2:31
- 23Jimmy's BluesKid Clayton5:06
- 242:30
- 25Shake It and Break ItEmile Barnes & Lawrence Tocca3:44
- 26Lord, Lord, LordEureka Brass Band3:07
About this album
The Eureka Brass Band's gospel swing opens and closes this overview of Crescent City sounds of the '50s and '60s, collected via street-level field recordings. The work songs of a shoeshine boy ("Shine—Hambone") and fruit vendor ("Blackberries!") hold their own with Doc Paulin's transfixing funeral music, Kid Clayton's spidery Dixieland jazz, and a remarkably intimate discussion and sing-off between two groups of Mardi Gras Indians ("Red White and Blue Got the Golden Band").