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Various Artists - Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans (2003)

Track listing:
CD1
  1. Welcome To New Orleans Galactic Feat. Theryl DeClouet 0:15
  2. Drop Me Off In New Orleans Kermit Ruffins 4:28
  3. I'm Walkin' Fats Domino 2:07
  4. Iko Iko Dr. John 4:08
  5. Potato Head Blues Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven 2:55
  6. My Darlin' New Orleans Lil' Queenie & The Percolators 4:01
  7. Para Donde Vas (Where Are You Going) The Iguanas 3:17
  8. Meet The Boyz On The Battlefront Anders Osborne & "Big Chief" Monk Boudreaux 4:36
  9. Ain't Got No Home Clarence "Frogman" Henry 2:19
  10. Feel Like Funkin' It Up Rebirth Brass Band 5:05
  11. Zydeco Gris-Gris Beausoleil 3:38
  12. Mother-In-Law Ernie K-Doe 2:32
  13. That's Enough Of That Stuff Marcia Ball 4:30
  14. Confidential The Radiators 4:11
  15. Hey Pocky A-Way The Meters 4:03
  16. I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say Jelly Roll Morton & His New Orleans Jazzmen 3:13
  17. Foot Of Canel Street Paul Sanchez 3:48
  18. Down In Honky Tonk Town Vernel Bagneris & The Cast Of One Mo' Time 3:01
  19. Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu Huey (Piano) Smith & The Clowns 2:17
  20. More Hipper Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen 5:28
  21. Release Me Johnny Adams 2:51
  22. Preachin' Blues Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feet Warmers 3:13
  23. Jambalaya Clifton Chenier 3:35
CD2
  1. Dog Days Leigh Harris 5:49
  2. No City Like New Orleans Earl King 4:33
  3. Sale'e Dames, Bon Jour Don Vappie & The Creole Jazz Serenaders 2:48
  4. Marshall's Club Balfa Toujours 3:42
  5. You Can Have My Husband Irma Thomas 3:13
  6. Go Go Galactic 3:04
  7. Not To Eggy The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars 2:11
  8. St. James Infirmary Preservation Hall Jazz Band 5:37
  9. Going Back To New Orleans Deacon John Moore 2:45
  10. Hot Tamale Baby Buckwheat Zydeco 4:08
  11. Fear, Hate, Envy, Jeslousy The Neville Brothers 4:25
  12. Poop Ain't Gotta Scuffle No More James Andrews 5:37
  13. Mardi Gras Mambo The Hawketts 2:16
  14. Ice Cream George Lewis' Ragtime Band 5:48
  15. No Doubt About It J. Monque'D 4:08
  16. Don't You Feel My Leg The Dirty Dozen Brass Band With Danny Barker & Eddie Bo 4:17
  17. Dog Hill Boozoo Chavis 2:38
  18. Au Bord De Lac Bijou Zachary Richard 4:41
  19. Mardi Gras In New Orleans Tuba Fats' Chosen Few Brass Band 6:12
CD3
  1. Shrimp And Gumbo Dave Bartholomew 2:05
  2. St. Phillip Street Breakdown Dr. Michael White 5:01
  3. Going Back To Louisiana Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 4:40
  4. Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville 2:41
  5. The Saints Coolbone 3:15
  6. Canaille Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie 3:06
  7. Carnival Time Al Johnson 2:41
  8. La Negra Tomasa Fredy Omar Con Su Banda 5:04
  9. Let The Good Times Roll Shirley & Lee 2:24
  10. The Broken Windmill Tom McDermott & Evan Christopher 3:53
  11. Way Down Champion Jack Dupree 3:48
  12. Hallelujah Raymond Myles 3:58
  13. I Hear You Knocking Smiley Lewis 2:45
  14. La Cre've De Faim (Starvation 2-Step) Steve Riley And The Mamou Playboys 3:07
  15. Main Street Blues The Red Stick Ramblers 4:37
  16. Sea Cruise Frankie Ford 2:44
  17. Tee-Nah-Nah Henry Butler 3:49
  18. Smoke That Fire New Birth Brass Band 3:06
  19. Give Him Cornbread Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers 4:15
  20. I Like It Like That Chris Kenner 1:57
  21. Classified (Version Two) James Booker 3:08
  22. Southern Nights Allen Toussaint 3:35
CD4
  1. Tipitina Professor Longhair 2:39
  2. Party The Wild Magnolias 4:43
  3. Dr.Jazz Ellis Marsalis 4:29
  4. Ooh Poo Pah Doo Troy Andrews 3:15
  5. South Of I-10 Sonny Landreth 3:40
  6. Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette) Benny Spellman 2:25
  7. The Right Key But The Wrong Keyhole Charmaine Neville Band With Reggie Houston & Amasa Miller 5:46
  8. Rip It Up Little Richard 2:23
  9. Royal Garden Blues Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band 3:31
  10. Stoned, Drunk & Naked Anders Osborne 4:52
  11. Laissez Faire (Let It Be) Bruce Daigrepont 2:28
  12. Digga-Digga-Do The New Orleans Jazz Vipers 5:25
  13. Tailspin Walter "Wolfman" Washington 3:03
  14. Lawdy Miss Clawdy Lloyd Price 2:32
  15. Havin' Fun In New Orleans Eddie Bo 5:01
  16. King Of The Mardi Gras Tim Laughlin 4:03
  17. Red Beans Snooks Eaglin 3:53
  18. S.U.V. Mem Shannon & The Membership 3:43
  19. 'Tits Yeux Noirs (Little Black Eyes) The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band 3:49
  20. Lazy River Pete Fountain & His Band 3:39
  21. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven 2:58

Notes

It reads splendidly on paper: Shout Factory's Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans is a traveler's guide to the legendary city's rich musical heritage. Over the course of four discs, it attempts to touch on all of the kinds of music associated with New Orleans — everything from brass bands and piano blues to zydeco, jazz and klezmer — and represent recordings from the '20s to the modern day. Add an 84-page book, complete with advice on where tourists should go in the Crescent City, and it seems like this is the definitive word on New Orleans. Well, not quite. While the idea of mixing eras is theoretically appealing, since it would emphasize common threads within New Orleans music, it winds up being distracting not only because of the different qualities of recordings, but because the sequencing isn't logical; instead of leading the listener through the changes, subtly instructing on the similarities between the seemingly dissimilar styles, the box seems like it's stuck on shuffle-play, whipping between songs without much rhyme or reason. And that haphazard sequencing brings another troubling flaw with the set into sharp relief: the musicians behind the recent recordings simply aren't a patch on the giants that provide New Orleans music with its heart, soul, blood and bone. Those musicians are here, no doubt — Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, Allen Toussaint, the Meters, Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis, the Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Huey "Piano" Smith — are all here, but when they're combined with solid but undistinguished modern artists, the results are less than definitive. It's pleasant, and representative of what you'd hear on a trip to New Orleans, and the book is highly instructive, but as a pure, enjoyable listening experience, Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens pales next to previous New Orleans sets.