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Classic Sounds of New Orleans from Smithsonian Folkways

Album

Classic Sounds of New Orleans from Smithsonian Folkways

Various Artists

2010Jazz · Music · Blues

Street-level field recordings illuminate Crescent City contrasts.

Tracks

  1. 13:59
  2. 2
    Shine–HamboneShoeshine boy
    1:05
  3. 3
    Tiger RagFreddie L. Small
    1:45
  4. 4
    Blackberries!Dora Bliggen
    0:21
  5. 55:11
  6. 6
    Times Done ChangedSister Dora Alexander
    1:27
  7. 7
    Dark Was the NightRev. Lewis Jackson & Charlotte Rucell
    0:56
  8. 8
    Back to the TimeChoir of Pilgrim Baptist Church
    2:18
  9. 94:03
  10. 103:05
  11. 112:17
  12. 12
    Spooky Drums #1Baby Dodds
    2:24
  13. 13
    Milenberg JoysEmile Barnes
    3:07
  14. 14
    Clarinet MarmaladeThe Six and Seven-Eight String Band of New Orleans
    2:11
  15. 151:37
  16. 163:54
  17. 175:42
  18. 18
    Corrine, CorrinaKid Clayton
    4:23
  19. 192:23
  20. 202:23
  21. 21
    Rattlesnake BoogieChampion Jack Dupree
    3:04
  22. 222:31
  23. 23
    Jimmy's BluesKid Clayton
    5:06
  24. 242:30
  25. 25
    Shake It and Break ItEmile Barnes & Lawrence Tocca
    3:44
  26. 26
    Lord, Lord, LordEureka Brass Band
    3:07

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").