For your listening pleasure, here is a compilation of tunes beloved of Gulf Watchers and mentioned in the ROV diaries, plus some of my own additions. It is a celebration of all kinds of music - blues, jazz, zydeco, Cajun, you name it. The appropriate emphasis is on Louisiana. The list is in order by the name of the group or artist as I hope you would look for it. For example, Jelly Roll Morton is under J because I can't bring myself to list him as "Morton, J.R."
Please share your own favorites reflecting the music and culture of the Gulf Coast area. Be kind to those with low bandwidth and just post links, not embeds/images/videos.
Your rec of the Mothership would be much appreciated.
And now, laissez les bon temps rouller!
Aaron Neville
Bird on a Wire http://www.youtube.com/...
Louisiana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aeMw4ZdbAA&feature=related
Voodoo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcr9_dCOusk&feature=related
Allen Toussaint
Southern Nights http://www.youtube.com/...
(look under Professor Longhair, too)
PBS video on Toussaint = http://video.pbs.org/...
BeauSoleil
Theogene Creole http://www.youtube.com/...
Kolinda http://www.youtube.com/...
Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and more
French Quarter Jazz Festival 2010 http://www.youtube.com/...
Blind Boys of Alabama
Free at Last http://www.youtube.com/...
Buckwheat Zyedeco
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/...
Cayouche
Tu m’as flushe http://www.youtube.com/...
Clifton Chenier
Bon Ton Roulet http://www.youtube.com/...
Creole String Beans
Sea Cruise http://www.youtube.com/...
You Never Can Tell http://www.youtube.com/...
Dewey Balfa & Nathan Abshire
Jolie Blon http://www.youtube.com/...
(look under Nathan Abshire, too)
The Dixie Cups
Iko Iko http://www.youtube.com/...
Dr. John
How Come My Dog Don’t Bark When You Come Around? http://www.youtube.com/...
Iko Iko http://www.youtube.com/...
Dr. John and Randy Newman
I Ate Up the Apple Tree http://www.youtube.com/...
Elizabeth Cotten
Mama, Your Papa Loves You http://www.youtube.com/...
Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie http://www.youtube.com/...
Shake Sugaree (Her 14-year-old granddaughter provided the vocal.) http://www.youtube.com/...
Fats Domino
Ain't That a Shame http://www.youtube.com/...
Fou Follet
Cajun music (what is name of song?) http://www.youtube.com/...
Harry Connick, Jr.
Jambalaya http://www.youtube.com/...
Irma Thomas
My Heart’s in Memphis http://www.youtube.com/...
Ruler of My Heart http://www.youtube.com/...
Time is on My Side http://www.youtube.com/...
JJ Cale
Magnolia http://www.youtube.com/...
Jelly Roll Morton and His New Orleans Jazzmen
Didn't He Ramble http://www.youtube.com/...
Lee Dorsey
Ya Ya http://www.youtube.com/...
Lightnin' Hopkins
Rollin' and Rollin' http://www.youtube.com/...
Lucinda Williams
Crescent City http://www.youtube.com/...
Marcia Ball
In Lafayette Square, New Orleans http://www.youtube.com/...
Louisiana http://www.youtube.com/...
The Meters
Cissy Strut http://www.youtube.com/...
They All Ask'd for You http://www.youtube.com/...
Mississippi John Hurt
Stagger Lee http://www.youtube.com/...
You Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley http://www.youtube.com/...
Nathan Abshire
Jolie Blond http://www.youtube.com/...
Professor Longhair and The Meters
Allen Toussaint on Professor Longhair http://www.youtube.com/...
http://www.youtube.com/...
Bald Head http://www.youtube.com/...
Tipitina http://www.youtube.com/...
Pete Fountain
Closer Walk with Thee/Amazing Grace http://www.youtube.com/...
Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Big Legged Woman http://www.youtube.com/...
Black Spider Blues http://www.youtube.com/...
Rockin’ Doopsie and Zydeco Twisters
Louisiana Twostep and You Keep Knockin’ But You Can’t Come In
http://www.youtube.com/...
Tab Benoit
When a Cajun Man Gets the Blues http://www.youtube.com/...
Saving the Wetlands & Hurricane on the Bayou http://www.youtube.com/...
Zachary Richard
Au Bord du Lac Bijou http://www.youtube.com/...