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Dr. John - Goin' Back To New Orleans (1992)

Track listing:
  1. Litanie Des Saints
  2. Careless Love
  3. My Indian Red
  4. Milneburg Joys
  5. I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden
  6. Basin Street Blues
  7. Didn't He Ramble
  8. Do You Call That A Buddy?
  9. How Come My Dog Don't Bark Whe
  10. Good Night, Irene
  11. Fess Up
  12. Since I Fell For You
  13. I'll Be Glad When You're Dead,
  14. Cabbage Head
  15. Goin' Home Tomorrow
  16. Blue Monday
  17. Scald Dog
  18. Goin' Back To New Orleans

Notes

Having cut an album of standards on his first Warner Brothers album, In a Sentimental Mood (1989), Dr. John turned for its follow-up to a collection of New Orleans standards. On an album he described in the liner notes as "a little history of New Orleans music," Dr. John returned to his hometown and set up shop at local Ultrasonic Studios, inviting in such local musicians as Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, and the Neville Brothers and addressing the music and styles of such local legends as Jelly Roll Morton, Huey "Piano" Smith, Fats Domino, James Booker, and Professor Longhair. The geography may have been circumscribed, but the stylistic range was extensive, from jazz and blues to folk and rock. And it was all played with festive conviction—Dr. John is the perfect archivist for the music, being one of its primary popularizers, yet he had never addressed it quite as directly as he did here.