While We’re Driving...Let’s Head on Down to New Orleans in Bobby's Bus

Black History Month takes on The Big Easy

It’s hot up in here.

Since I over-stayed my visit to New Jersey, I’ve hit the road once more. Heading down to New Orleans for my next Black History hit.

Let’s start off with a man who does the sound of New Orleans I love the best...Emmett Ellis, Jr. More than seven decades into his storied music career, the Funky Old Man Mr. Bobby Rush.

Bobby Rush With Blinddog Smokin'  – Decisions, Silver Talon STF-393, 2014.
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Another Murder in New Orleans
Decisions
Bobby Rush's Bus
If That's the Way You Like it, I Like It
Funky Old Man
Love of a Woman
Stand Back
Skinny Little Woman
Dr. Rush
Too Much Weekend

 

Born in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, the unrivaled Queen of New Orleans Soul, a title officially bestowed on her by local officials, no less...Ms. Irma Lee Thomas. Sweet soul surrender.

Irma Thomas - Soul Queen of New Orleans, Maison De Soul LP 1005, 1978.

Side One -
Breakaway
Ruler of My Heart
Hittin' on Nothin'
Hip Shakin' Mama
For the Good Times

Side Two -
Don't Blame Him
It's Raining
Wish Someone Would Care

 

 

Born in 1938 in New Orleans, raised in a shotgun shack in the Gert Town neighborhood by his mother, Naomi Neville. The Dew Drop Tousan. Mr. New Orleans. Allen Toussaint.

 

 

Allen Toussaint - From a Whisper to a Scream re-issue, Kent Records CDKENM 036, 1985.

From a Whisper to a Scream
Chokin' Kind
Sweet Touch of Love
What is Success
Working in the Coal Mine
Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky
Either
Louie
Cast Your Fate to the Wind
Number Nine
Pickles

Rerelease of Toussaint on Scepter Records SPS 24003, 1970 with slightly different track order & addition song ''Number Nine''.

 

 

 

& finally, a mix of deep & dirty New Orleans Funk.

 

Various - Voodoo Soul, Metro METRCD060, 2001

Cissy Strut - The Meters
Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky - Lee Dorsey
Ride Your Pony - Betty Harris
Brother Man, Sister Ann - Clemon Smith
Here Comes the Metermen - The Meters
A Lover & a Friend - Eddie Bo & Inez Cheatham
I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Skip Easterling
Occapella - Lee Dorsey
Fairchild - Willie West
Pass the Hatchet - Roger & the Gypsies
Ease Back - The Meters
Louie - Allen Toussaint
Get ta Steppin' - Robert Palmer
Sissy Walk - Skip Jones
Soul Junction - Backyard Heavies
We're Doing It (Thang) - Eddie Bo

Enjoy,
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