Led by singer-songwriter Alynda Lee, New Orleans folk rockers Hurray for the Riff Raff play a Liveset show outside the Art House on the Levee in the Lower 9, near the band regular practice site.
This performance, about 36 minutes long, was originally streamed live on June 26, 2012. It's in HD, so go full screen if you can.
This is actually "the Ernie K-Doe Official Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame Induction video", but the bulk of it consists of K-Doe performing a couple of songs (including "Mother-in-Law") at Jazz Fest, sometime during the 1980s. The sign in the background ("Schlitz Welcomes You to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival") may be quaint, but the performance hot.
According to the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, the video was "first presented at his Mother-in-Law Lounge in NOLA. 8-2-2009.... The closing footage is from Ernie and Antoinette's appearance in the movie 'Happy, Now & Then'."
This month Tipitina's is celebrating its 35th Anniversary. This famous New Orleans venue opened its doors in 1977 when a group of 14 Tulane alumni and students (the "Fabulous Fourteen") pooled their money to buy a club where New Orleans musical giant Professor Longhair could perform -- he had burned too many bridges in the French Quarter, and was out of venues where he could play. So the Fabulous Fourteen opened Tipitina's Uptown on Napoleon and Tchoupitoulas, where the Professor played for the last three years of his life.
A very important FYI: Tipitina's plays a critical role in WWOZ's history. Our first broadcasts in 1980 were from a cramped apartment above Tip's. WWOZ's tradition of bringing live, local music to the airwaves began when DJs would drop a microphone through a hole in the floor to record performances from Tip's stage.
Now, 35 years later, after thousands of shows, a change in ownership, and the incredible development of the Tipitina's Foundation, one question remains: why, oh why, is that banana on Tipitina's logo?
We started doing some digging and, as it turns out, there is no one clear answer to this quandary. Many rumors are circulating, some clearly not true. But they all have a place in Tipitina's lore:
Legend #1: The artist who created the Tipitina's logo signed all of her work by dipping a banana into paint and using it as a brush to leave her mark. While we can't say for certain this never happened, there is a framed logo upstairs at Tipitina's bearing the artist's signature - definitely not a la banana.
Legend #2: This was the '70s and yoga was all the rage. The Fab Fourteen knew a Swami with a name that rhymed with banana, and they simply called him Swami Banana. The Swami didn't last, but the joke did when it was worked into the Tip's logo.
Legend #3: Tipitina's is named after a Professor Longhair song called Tipitina (known fact). The song is supposedly about a French Quarter woman with no toes who was, quite literally, "Tippy Tina." Rumor has it that Tina had a fruit stand in the Quarter, and the banana is another allusion to the song and an homage to Tippy Tina herself.
Legend #4: The club was originally called Tipitina, but the artist who conceived of the logo added the "'s" and the banana, just because it felt aesthetically right to her. The Tip's owners liked the "s", but not the banana. Unfortunately for them, the artist said it was a package deal: no banana, no "s". In a take-it-or-leave-it sort of deal, Tip's took the banana.
Legend #5: While an apple a day might keep someone healthy up north, down here in the northernmost city of the Caribbean, a saying that the Fabulous Fourteen used to toss around was "a banana a day keeps the doctor away."
Legend #6: The Fab Fourteen couldn't get a liquor license when Tipitina's first opened its doors, so instead they served juice and other health snacks -- including bananas.
Legend #7: Tipitina's used to be a banana warehouse. This one is possible. By the looks of it, Tipitina's was previously a warehouse. It's near the Uptown shipyards, and New Orleans was a major banana port.
Mr. French last performed with the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band in the summer of 2011. Afflicted with dementia and suffering from diabetes-related complications, he then moved into an assisted-living facility.
Mr. French grew up immersed in the traditional sounds of New Orleans. His father, banjo player Albert "Papa" French, took over the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band in the 1950s after the death of Oscar "Papa" Celestin, who founded the group in 1910.
As a young man, Mr. French rejected his father's music in favor of rhythm and blues. His first gig in 1954 included Art and Charles Neville and piano wizard James Booker. One day, Papa French recruited his son to fill in for the Original Tuxedo's ailing drummer. Bob French was so mortified by his sloppy performance that he committed himself to a proper study of traditional New Orleans jazz.
When Papa French died in 1977, his son took over the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band. Under Bob French’s leadership, the band expanded its repertoire during an itinerant existence around town. He restored the Original Tuxedo to Bourbon Street in 2009 via a Monday night residency at Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse in the Royal Sonesta Hotel. That he would work at a club owned by Mayfield, whom Mr. French occasionally bashed on the airwaves, caught some observers by surprise. "I love to play music, and I love money," Mr. French said by way of explanation. "And I get both of them there."
After his retirement in 2011, his nephew, Gerald French, took over the drum chair and leadership of the band.
His blunt talk, strong opinions and force of personality earned him detractors; an altercation with a fellow WWOZ deejay reportedly got him booted off the air. But he also had his fans, including Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis. Both appeared on Mr. French’s 2007 CD, "Marsalis Music Honors Bob French," issued by Marsalis' namesake record label. Both stars also joined him for a performance in the Jazz Tent at that year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell.
Thanks to Connick's and Marsalis' involvement, that CD was the most prominent of Mr. French’s 50-year career. It was smartly produced and played, beautifully packaged and distributed around the globe. Across 11 tracks, the drummer and his band revisited well-traveled standards, including "When the Saints Go Marching In," which Mr. French generally declined to perform onstage.
In the fall of 2006, Marsalis served as guest editor of the glossy jazz magazine DownBeat, and put Mr. French on the cover. It was a rare turn in the national spotlight for a musician who was more familiar with the six sets a night, six nights a week grind. He spent years at the now-defunct Crazy Shirley's at the corner of Bourbon and St. Peter streets in the French Quarter, where patrons included a young Quint Davis, the future producer of Jazz Fest.
As a bandleader, Mr. French took his father's lessons to heart: Charge a higher fee than competitors. Dress sharp. Most important, be on time. None of his father's rules apparently forbade drinking on the job, as Mr. French liked to sip between songs.
"I'm not an alcoholic," he sometimes joked. "I'm a drunk. There's a difference."
From behind his drums, Mr. French kept a watchful eye. He did not permit fans to videotape his shows, and he did not tolerate musicians who made mistakes.
After Hurricane Katrina, he used his position at WWOZ as a bully pulpit to berate elected officials he believed let the city down. Both on air and onstage, he returned to similar themes. "In God we trust, all others pay cash" was a favorite expression. He often referenced red beans as an indicator of his economic status or as an inducement for fans to buy CDs.
His radio vocabulary was much milder than his off-air speech, which he peppered with f-bombs in all their permutations. His broadcasts functioned like a live-action Blackberry. He'd address the likes of Charmaine Neville or Dr. John over the airways: "I need a phone number. Call me back. It's important."
During one two hour-session on the air in the summer of 2007, he lobbied former WWOZ deejay Michael "Mr. Jazz" Gourrier for a free lunch; expounded on singer Tricia "Sista Teedy" Boutte's sore throat and good looks; chatted with in-studio guests Cyril and Gaynielle Neville; commented on the romantic limitations of advancing age; bashed the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Mayor Ray Nagin; and spun a diverse program of mostly traditional, mostly local, jazz. His radio playlists favored the likes of Louis Armstrong, Dr. John, trumpeter Lionel Ferbos, pianist-composer Matt Lemmler, hot jazz singer Ingrid Lucia.
"This show gives me the chance to play what I think is cool," Mr. French once said. "Some people call and say, 'You're not playing any traditional jazz.' Well, it's my show. I can do whatever the f--- I want.' "
Mr. French could sometimes work against himself. During a Los Angeles taping of the now-defunct NBC-TV show "Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip,” he ran afoul of the show’s producers. He was cut from the scene that featured Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and other New Orleanians.
In the mid-2000s, the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band’s Monday night residency bounced around to several clubs, including Donna's, Ray's Boom Boom Room, Cafe Brasil and d.b.a., after his relationship with each club’s proprietor soured.
Privately, Jazz Fest staffers complained about his demands, attitude and bluster. He was not surprised. "I cuss them out," he once said. "I'm not afraid of Quint. I have to fight for every dollar I get.
"(Losing) one gig is not going to hurt me. Two gigs is not going to hurt me. I'm older now. Thank God I get a check every month from Uncle Sam and from the musicians' union. I live alone. I can cook a pot of red beans and eat off of it for three days.
"I don't have to kiss nobody's ass. I'm at the point in my life where I can do what I want. All my children are married and gone, and I'm home alone. When I've eaten, everybody has eaten."
Of his tenure at WWOZ, he said, "I do a lot I'm not supposed to do, but nobody stops me. I think it's good that somebody can do something that's not automatic. I'm not a robot; I'm a human being. And I've always been opinionated. Ask both of my ex-wives."
NEW ORLEANS — The drums could be heard first and then the brass, and then, far down the street in the twilight, people could be seen dancing and swaying, the bells of sousaphones above them like halos. Shuffling back and forth at the front of the parade was a paint horse named Sunshine that somebody taught how to dance.
This was Day 2 of the party that has lasted over a week in the Treme neighborhood. On some nights there have been small, informal parades like this one; on other nights people from around the city and even tourists have flocked to this neighborhood, New Orleans’s cultural and musical heart, to see or be a part of a certain kind of celebration that takes place almost nowhere else.
On the nights between the death and the burial of one of their colleagues, musicians gather to play and remember. This culminates in the funeral procession, one of those local traditions that is featured in the city’s marketing materials but is no less old and true for it. People still talk about processions from years past, but in terms of size, the one coming up this Friday may be among the largest in recent memory.
“The way things is going, this is probably going to be the biggest,” said Action Jackson, a D.J. who follows cultural events for the local radio station WWOZ.
The man being laid to rest is Lionel Batiste, known to everyone for decades as Uncle Lionel, to many simply as “Unc.” Mr. Batiste, who was 80 when he died of cancer on July 8, was the singer, bass drummer and assistant grand marshal for the Treme Brass Band. He was also one of the great New Orleans personalities, the face of Treme and a consummate man about town.
On today’s program, we jump into a car with the one and only Walter Wolfman Washington for an hour of not just music but also a road trip to a local clothing store. Tune in as we drive and talk about music, shoes, and his music mentors. I also stop by Willie Mae’s Scotch House for a taste of food worthy of a James Beard Award.
Wolfman and I cruised across town and over the Mississippi to Soul Train Fashions on the West Bank of New Orleans on our quest for the perfect shoes. The NOATWL web audience gets a glimpse of that store, as well as a venture into the Soul Train Suit Warehouse back on the east side of the river in Gentilly. We wanted to give you feel for the experience so we invited a few members of Sports & Leisure to come along to try out the suits that we see on dapper gentlemen across the city.
'OZ fans Courtney Katzenstein and Jon McHugh have more than friendship and their love of 'OZ in common, they are also both Scorpios. What's that mean for our listeners? Jon and Courtney have graciously offered to let us broadcast their birthday party, featuring Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk and the Stooges Brass Band. Courtney has also made 'OZ her charity of choice and requests for gifts to be in the form of donations to the station. So thank you, and happy birthday to Courtney and Jon!Please note: This is a private party, but will be broadcast on WWOZ 90.7 fm and online at wwoz.org
On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig set off an historic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, just off the Louisiana coast. Efforts to keep the leaking oil out of sensitive wetlands and bayous are ongoing, but the potential effects on the fishing and wildlife are disastrous.
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In a small office just off of the main studio, music director Scott Borne sits among stacks of boxes containing 25,000 CD's with a machine that picks up a CD from a stack, copies it and then digitizes it. The music from that CD will now be safely housed on a server in the second floor studio and offices of public radio station WWOZ located in an historic building on the river in New Orleans. Just in case, the digital version of all 250,000 songs will have a copy on a server well outside of the city. The staff and volunteers nearly learned a tough lesson in 2005 when the breaks in the faulty federal levees after Hurricane Katrina left their Treme neighborhood under water. WWOZ was lucky: only some minor roof damage, less than a foot of water, and some tower damage. The music collection was in tact and their equipment was mostly undamaged. The station went back on the air as web-only "WWOZ in Exile" out of a radio station in New Jersey within a week, and was able to open a broadcast studio in Baton Rouge by October.
By December 2005, four months after the flooding, they were back on the air in their present studios in the French Quarter. For many, WWOZ coming back on the air was one more step for New Orleans returning to its "new normal."
The New Orleans Saints are the 2009 NFL Champions, defeating the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in their first-ever Superbowl! Congratulations to the Boys in Black & Gold and all of New Orleans! In celebration, WWOZ invites you to groove along with us to these Saints fight songs and videos.
The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living is sponsoring a series of 12 live broadcasts aimed at providing smoke-free environments for live music fans, musicians, and service staff.
WWOZ returns to our old neighborhood, the Tremé, to broadcast the Treme Brass Band live from the group's weekly gig at Candlelight Bar. The 45-minute broadcast will be hosted by 'OZ deejay A.A.
The Treme Brass Band is led by snare drummer Benny Jones, Sr., who founded the group in the mid 1990s after playing with the Olympia Brass Band and leading the Dirty Dozen and Chosen Few Brass Bands.
Although their music is steeped in the roots of New Orleans jazz, this multi-generational ensemble infuses it with a fresh exuberance that mixes in elements of funk, soul, and modern jazz.
Don't miss out on this very special live broadcast sponsored by the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living! For more info, please visit letsbetotallyclear.org.
WWOZ is teaming up with the Grammy Awards for a live broadcast of "A Night of Louisiana Music" from the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on January 30 at 11pm CST.
The event celebrates America's Louisiana-based musical roots and features performances by Louisiana musicians who've been nominated for Grammy awards, including The Magnolia Sisters, Cedric Watson, Zachary Richard, and C.C. Adcock.
This live broadcast is sponsored by the Convention and Visitors Bureaus of Louisiana, through the courtesy of Republic Beverage. The event will also be broadcast live on several affiliated public radio stations in California.
Stay tuned to our Live Broadcast page for details on which artists we'll be broadcasting.
For more info, visit the Grammy Museum Web site.
In addition to being a founding member of Los Hombres Calientes with Irvin Mayfield and a member of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, percussionist Bill Summers has worked with Quincy Jones on the musical score for Roots and the soundtrack to The Color Purple. Summers plays anything from traditional African instruments to pop bottles, bringing diverse people and ideas together.
Summers will perform with his latest band, Jazalsa, live in the WWOZ performance studio on Wednesday, February 3, during the New Orleans Music Show with George Ingmire.
WWOZ takes it back to the streets of New Orleans during Carnival time: We will broadcast live from several nighttime parades in the Uptown section of the Crescent City in the weeks before Mardi Gras (February 16).
WWOZ will bring Mardi Gras 2010 — from high-steppin' high-school marching bands playing the greatest Carnival music classics to on-the-street commentary from parading partiers — live to you wherever you are!
Stay tuned to this page for details about which parades 'OZ will be broadcasting, and check out our Mardi Gras page for items like the complete 2010 parade schedule and much more.
Here are the Best CD releases of 2009, handpicked by WWOZ show hosts. Many of the discs are by local New Orleans artists, while others are from national and international acts, and all of them make great gifts for yourself or loved ones.
Click on the Buy Now buttons next to each disc to purchase it from Louisiana Music Factory, iTunes, or Amazon, and give the gift of music!
Tudo Bem (Brazilian), Saturday 2-4pm
World Journey, Saturday 4-6pm
Brazil:
Carlos Careqa - Tudo Que Respira Quer Comer 
Clara Moreno - Miss Balanço
Eliane Elias - Bossa Nova Stories
Marcio Local - Don Day Don Dre Don Don
Mart'nália - Minha Cara
Milton Nascimento & Jobim Trio - Novas Bossas
Rosalia de Souza - D'Improvviso
Teresa Cristina, Jussara Silveira & Rita Ribeiro - Três Meninas do Brasil
Iberia:
Buika & Chucho Valdés - El Último Trago
MadreDeus & A Banda Cósmica - A Nova Aurora
Rua da Saudade - Canções de Ary dos Santos
Tereza Salgueiro & Lusitânia Ensemble - Tereza Salgueiro & Lusitânia Ensemble
Africa:
Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze - Sira
Baaba Maal (with the Brazilian Girls) - Television
Béla Fleck - Thrown Down Your Heart: Africa Sessions
Lura - Eclipse
New Orleans Music Show, Wednesday 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
New Orleans All the Way Live, Saturday 7-8 a.m.
Alex McMurray - How To Be a Cannonball
Alex is a songwriting fool. His musical maneuvers are dangerously brilliant and edgy. Hand him a whiskey and put it on my tab.
Luther Kent - The Bobby Bland Songbook
A pleasant surprise of beautiful, soulful singing with the orchestrations of Wardell Quezergue to boot. Luther's story is worth checking into — blue-eyed soul at its finest.
Garage à Trois - Power Patriot
Don't leave this CD alone with anyone who's afraid of change, calico cats, or the big bad wolf.
Barbara Lynn - Here Is Barbara Lynn (re-issue)
This woman's singing and guitar work could charm snakes into doing your garden chores.
Neighborhood Story Project: 4 New Books
Not a CD, but a glance into the very heart of New Orleans nonetheless. These books, along with any of the prior releases are worth their weight in gold (eat your heart out, Glenn Beck). More info at www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org.
Kitchen Sink, Tuesday 10 p.m. - midnight
Jazz Lunatique, Thursday 12-3 a.m.
Vijay Iyer - Historicity
Terence Blanchard - Choices
Fred Anderson - 80th Birthday Live At the Velvet Lounge
Steve Lehman - Travail, Transformation, and Flow
Alex McMurray - How To Be a Cannonball
Todd Snider - The Excitement Plan
Fast and Bulbous - Waxed Oop
Shane Theriot - Dirty Power
Steve Gardner/Washboard Chaz/Jake Leg Stompers - Walkin' the Dog
Allen Toussaint - Bright Mississippi
Ramblin' Jack Elliot - A Stranger Here
New Orleans Music Show, Tuesday 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Jazz Roots, Wednesday 9 - 11 a.m.
My top 11 CDs by 2009 New Orleans artists listed alphabetically.
Jimmy Carpenter - Toiling in Obscurity
Topsy Chapman - 3 in 1
Luther Kent - Bobby Bland Songbook
Los Po-Boy-Citos - New Orleans Latin Soul
Ingrid Lucia - St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Tom McDermott - New Orleans Duets
New Orleans Nightcrawlers - Slither Slice
Palmetto Bug Stompers - Live @ d.b.a.
Vic Shepherd - Crescent City Serenade
Allen Toussaint - Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
Luke Winslow-King - Old/New Baby (Fox On a Hill)
Jazz from the Market with Charles Burchell
Monday 4-7pm
It's always hard to do this; I omitted just as many as I included. If you felt that I missed something, you're probably right. Anyway, here goes:
Donald Harrison-The Chosen (Nagel Heyer)
Terence Blanchard-Choices (Blue Note)
Jackie Ryan-Doozy (Open Art Productions)
Stefon Harris & Blackout-Urbanus (Concord Music Group)
Gerald Wilson Orchestra-Detroit (Mack Avenue)
Roy Hargrove Big Band-Emergence (Groovin' High)
Jesse Boyd-True Stories (Contrabass)
Clayton Brothers-Brother To Brother (Artist Share)
Dr. Lonnie Smith-Rise Up! (Palmetto)
Louis Hayes-The Timekeeper (18th & Vine)
James Moody-4A (IPO Recording)
Joe Lovano US Five-Folk Art (Blue Note)
Robert Glasper-Double Booked (Blue Note)
Jeremy Davenport-We'll Dance 'Til Dawn (Basin Street)
New Orleans Music Show with Black Mold or Bill DeTurk
Friday 11am-2pm
Unlike some of my fellow DJs, I patiently waited until the year was OVER so I could include those CDs that didn't materialize until late December. Some of these CDs I haven't even played on the air yet. Disclaimer: Inclusion on, or exclusion from this list may, or may not be attributed to excessive use of drugs, alcohol, or the DEVIL. So here they are, locals and far-away-ers, in no particular order...
Damon Fowler – Sugar Shack - A real picker. Straddles bluz and country.
Eric Lindell – Gulf Coast Highway – His best yet (In my humble opinion).
Tom McDermott – New Orleans Duets
Commander Cody – Dopers, Drunks, and Everyday Losers – great stuff from an Old Master
Alex McMurray – How to be a Cannonball – DUH – one on New Orleans' finest songwriters.
Honey Island Swamp Band – Wishing Well – Great songwriting, well executed.
Little Joe Washington – Texas Fire Line – A fixture on the Houston blues scene in the 50's, homeless in the 70's, and on yer CD player in the 00's. His angst and desperation pour out past his last three teeth (but who needs teeth to sing the bluz?)
Rick Estrin and the Nightcats – Twisted – Fun stuff. Play it at yer next BBQ.
Big Chief Monk Boudreaux – Rising Sun
Shane Theriot – Dirty Power – killer guitar
John Boutte – with Doug Cox/ Salil Bhatt – Slide to Freedom 2 – John Boutte's soulful voice coupled with some Indian instrument with a whole lotta strings and some slide guitar. Plus they cover an Earl King song. And do 'Amazing Grace'.
Michael Juan Nunez – The American Electric – the Erath, LA quintuple threat – he writes the songs, he sings, he play guitar, he produces the CD, and he tap dances (just kidding about the tap dancing part). The guy does it all, and it all ROCKS.
Bonerama – It's their 1st studio CD; PLUS they do 'When the Levee Breaks'. Need I say more?
Rosanne Cash – The List – Yeah, it's the CD that everyone's talking about.
Radiators – The Lost Southlake Sessions – uncovered gems from the past
Brother Tyrone – Mindbender – A fine CD overall, but 'When It's Gone, It's Gone' is one my favorite 'Katrina' songs. A beautiful blend of humor and pathos.
Shannon McNally – Coldwater
Charlie Miller – And I don't even like Chrimmus CDs, but this one is simply beautiful. Just Charlie's trumpet (and occasionally his flute) putting his spin on the standards.
James McMurtry – Live in Europe, Disc 1 (Don't ask me about Disc 2 – it didn't make it to the 'OZ library) Yer basic live CD, which translates into 'Greatest Hitz'. I love this guy, he's the poet laureate of the underbelly of Middle America (Yeah, his dad's the famous author). And although it's not on this CD, if you want the definitive song about the Crystal Meth trade along the Texas/Oklahoma state line, get his song 'Choctaw Bingo'. Play it for yer in-laws, it'll make quite an impression.
Tom Russel – Blood and Candle Smoke - Old West mysticism, if yer into that sorta thing.
M for Mississippi – the soundtrack to the “Winner of the 2009 Blues Music Award for DVD of the Year”. Great raw jukin' bluz by a bunch of people you & I never heard of. It'll make you wanna get in a good bar fight. Google it, or call Andrew Grafe (Mondays 2 – 4 pm).
Things About Comin' My Way – A Tribute to the Music of the Mississippi Sheiks
Note to local musicians: If you wanna get some airplay on 'OZ, don't just drop off a SINGLE CD to the station. Those are the CDs that fall into the Black Hole and are never heard from again. You gotta bring a WHOLE LOTTA CDs to the station and put one in the mailbox of every DJ who you even THINK will play your stuff. Don't be cheap! (Mr. Toussaint, you're never gonna get anywhere in the music biz if you don't heed my advice. I'm just sayin'...)
Kitchen Sink 10 to 12 with A.J. Rodrigue and A.A.
Wednesday 10pm-Thursday 12am
Alex McMurray - How to Be a Cannonball
Clint Maedgan – Open Restraints
Preservation Hall Jazz Band – New Orleans Preservation Vol. 1
Allen Toussaint - Bright Mississippi
Hart McNee – Bywater Blues
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live
Booker T w/Drive by Truckers and Neil Young – Potato Hole
Lil’ Band O’ Gold – Music From The film The Promised Land
Pine Leaf Boys – Homage Au Passe
Odoms – Let Me Atom
Forgotten Souls Bras Band – Big Chief / Indian Red (45)
Los Po-boy Citos – Brand New Dance / Trinidad (45)
Guitar Lightnin’ Lee and his Thunder Band featuring Antoine Domino III – Call up the Band
Cale Pellick – In the Loop
2009 Top Reissue
Snooks Eaglin – Baby, You Can Get Your Gun
It appears that Hepcat Records has the Black Top Catalog and is starting to rerelease some of the great recordings of Hammond and Nauman Scott! I see a couple of other Snooks releases are re-issued as well as Anson Funderburgh, Sam Myers and Ronnie Earl. Black Top released over 100 records in the 80's and 90's. Hope to see more in 2010!
