Mar 8, 2011
Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras. A day of excess before weeks of denial, leading up to the Easter Sunday celebration. It calls for over-the-top celebration, and here’s the music for it – an hour-plus long collection of New Orleans jazz, R&B and funk, both old and new, including:
Dejan’s Original Olympia Brass Band – “Olympia Special”
Louis Armstrong – “Gutbucket Blues”
The Meters – “Chicken Strut”
7 Walkers – “New Orleans Crawl”
Bunk Johnson – “When the Saints Go Marching In”
Donald Harrison – “Dance Hall”
Eddie Bo – “SGB”
George Lewis – “Bourbon Street Parade”
Nicholas Payton – “You Rascal You”
Marcia Ball – “Crawfishin’”
Piron's New Orleans Orchestra – “New Orleans Wiggle”
Lois DeLoatch - “Down By the Riverside”
Professor Longhair – “Go to theMardi Gras”
Dr. John – “Mardi Gras Day” (live in Montreux)
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!