This week in the Shack

If you've listened to me dj on here or for dancers for any time at all, then you know how much I love New Orleans music. With Fat Tuesday and the end of the carnival season just around the corner, it's time to fill the Shack with the sounds of the Crescent City, from the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands, a little bitta fifties R&B, a little bitta soul, and some of that sweet NOLA funk. If this doesn't make you want to get up and move, nothing will.


1. Kermit Ruffins/ReBirth Brass Band - Mardi Gras Day (4:45)
2. Dr. John - My Indian Red (4:47)
3. Lil' Queenie & The Percolators - My Darlin' New Orleans (4:01)
4. Marcia Ball - Party Town (4:15)
5. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Junko Partner (4:23)
6. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (3:26)
7. Allen Toussaint - What Is Success (3:36)
8. The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py (3:19)
9. The Wild Magnolias - Two-Way-Pak-E-Way (7:52)
10. Lee Dorsey - Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On) (3:10)
11. Cyril Neville - Soul Train (3:43)
12. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - John The Revelator (4:39)
13. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - St. James Infirmary (3:19)
14. Marcia Ball - Louisiana 1927 (6:54)
15. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - His Eye Is on the Sparrow (6:11)
16. Henry Butler - Tee-Nah-Nah (3:48)
17. Dr. John - Such A Night (7:25)
18. Clarence "Frogman" Henry - Lonely Street (2:08)
19. Shirley & Lee - Let the Good Times Roll (2:23)
20. The Wild Magnolias - New Kinda Groove (4:02)
21. Jon Cleary - More Hipper (5:27)
22. Coolbone - The Saints (3:16)
23. ReBirth Brass Band - Let's Get It On (3:54)
24. The Neville Brothers - Brother John/Iko Iko (5:36)
25. Irma Thomas/Marcia Ball - I Just Can't Get New Orleans off My Mind (3:28)
26. Cyril Neville - New Orleans Cookin' (4:05)
27. Neville, Brother Charles/Sixth Ward All-Stars Brass Band Revue/The New Orleans Social Club - Where Y'At? Medley: Jesus on the Main Line/I'm Walking/The Saints (5:59)
28. Marcia Ball - That's Enough of That Stuff (6:29)
29. Irma Thomas; John Medeski - Somebody Told You (3:17)
30. Henry Butler - Some Iko (5:08)
31. Aaron Neville - Life On The Layaway Plan (Dark Streets Album Version) (4:11)
32. Dr. John - Ki Ya Gris Gris (4:03)
33. The Wild Magnolias - Smoke My Peace Pipe (Smoke It Right) (6:58)
34. Jon Cleary - Too Damn Hot (5:11)
35. The Neville Brothers - Fly Like an Eagle (4:46)
36. Cyril Neville - Gossip (2:37)
37. Dr. John; Lower 911 - We Gettin' There (5:11)
38. The Meters - Just Kissed My Baby (4:43)
39. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Dive In The Gumbo (3:56)
40. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - That Bucket's Got a Hole in It (6:10)

(Mardi Gras 2009)