This Week in the Shack

It's carnival time, and that means that the Shotgun Shack moves back to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. So dip yourself a nice big bowl of red beans & rice, mix up that hurricane, and kick back for three and a half hours of those unmistakeable NOLA sounds. Whether it's that line of piano professors from Jelly Roll to Fess to James Booker to Dr. John; the percussion-heavy chants of the Mardi Gras Indian tribes; that sweet Crescent City R&B of the fifties; or hot horn playing from Pops to Kermit Ruffins and Trombone Shorty, there's no city that has consistently produced finer music and finer musicians consistently over the last hundred years.

This set will stay up through Fat Tuesday. In the meantime, I'll decide if I'm going to do a gospel set for the beginning of Lent or go back to the blues.

Lastly, this set is dedicated to Dan Baum, whose Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans was one of the two or three best books I read last year, and gave me a so much greater appreciation and understanding of New Orleans culture.


1. The Golden Eagles - Two-Way-Pak-E-Way (5:40)
2. Kermit Ruffins/ReBirth Brass Band - Mardi Gras Day (4:45)
3. Dr. John - My Indian Red (4:47)
4. Kid Ory - Do What Ory Say (4:27)
5. Clarence "Frogman" Henry - Ain't Got No Home (2:21)
6. Paul Sanchez - Foot Of Canal Street (3:48)
7. Olu Dara; The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Junko Partner (3:52)
8. Allen Toussaint - St. James Infirmary (3:51)
9. Wynton Marsalis - New Orleans Bump (4:32)
10. Sidney Bechet - Shake It and Break It (2:55)
11. Lil' Queenie & The Percolators - My Darlin' New Orleans (4:01)
12. Marcia Ball - That's Enough of That Stuff (6:29)
13. Jon Cleary - Fool's Game (4:42)
14. The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py (3:19)
15. Galactic - Hamp's Hump (3:47)
16. ReBirth Brass Band - We Come to Party (7:53)
17. The Neville Brothers - Hey Pocky Way (4:13)
18. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Meet The Boyz On The Battlefront (4:36)
19. Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias - Iko, Iko (3:40)
20. Buckwheat Zydeco - Hard to Stop (4:43)
21. Zachary Richard - Who Stole My Monkey? (3:38)
22. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Eh, La Bas (3:52)
23. Professor Longhair - Tipitina [*] (2:24)
24. James Booker - Lawdy Miss Clawdy (3:31)
25. Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That, Pt. 1 (1:57)
26. Eddie Bo - Now Let's Popeye (2:39)
27. Shirley & Lee - Let the Good Times Roll (2:23)
28. Fats Domino - Ain't That A Shame (2:30)
29. Dr. John - Milneburg Joys (2:39)
30. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (2:18)
31. Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras in New Orleans (2:53)
32. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Little Liza Jane (5:55)
33. Coolbone - Phat City (3:33)
34. Jon Cleary - More Hipper (5:27)
35. The Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon (4:04)
36. Dr. John - John Gris (5:20)
37. Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias - Golden Crown (3:53)
38. Professor Longhair - Bald Head (3:01)
39. Tab Benoit - Hustlin' Down In New Orleans (5:27)
40. Zachary Richard - Bon Temps Rouler (4:01)
41. Irma Thomas - Back Water Blues (3:31)
42. Ellis Marsalis - The Mooche (5:19)
43. Jelly Roll Morton & His New Orleans Jazzmen - I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say (3:13)
44. Louis Armstrong - Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (3:03)
45. Kermit Ruffins - What Is New Orleans? (8:26)
46. Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews/The New Orleans Social Club - Hey Troy, Your Mama's Calling You (3:57)
47. Jon Cleary - When U Get Back (Live) (7:32)
48. Allen Toussaint - Yes We Can Can (4:15)
49. Lee Dorsey - Working in the Coal Mine (2:51)
50. Harry Connick, Jr. - Do Dat Thing (5:32)

(NOLA 4)

Soul Dance Party at the Highball!

Come out to the Highball Lounge on Feb. 17 for a free soul dance party with DJ Big Papa. This is the inaugural night for a new monthly dance party.

This Week in The Shack

This week's program is three mini soul sets: one of southern soul, one of Motown, and one of modern music with a retro-soul vibe.

1. Sam & Dave - Soul Man (2:40)
2. Al Green - Take Me to the River (3:43)
3. Greg Jackson - Aretha, Sing One for Me (3:00)
4. Ann Peebles - I Feel Like Breaking Up Sombody's Home (2:28)
5. Ray Charles - What'd I Say, Pts. 1 & 2 (6:29)
6. Solomon Burke - Change Is Gonna Come (2:33)
7. Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine (2:32)
8. Wilson Pickett - Sugar, Sugar (2:58)
9. Isaac Hayes - Medley: Ike's Rap II / Help Me Love (7:33)
10. Aretha Franklin - Dr. Feelgood (8:56)
11. James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street (2:33)
12. Little Milton - Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around The World) (2:48)
13. Booker T. & the MG's - Jellybread (2:27)
14. Carla Thomas - B-A-B-Y (2:56)
15. Clarence Carter - Snatching It Back (2:52)
16. Bobby Patterson - Soul Is Our Music (2:30)

17. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - I Second That Emotion (2:40)
18. The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (2:45)
19. The Supremes - Baby Love [Mono Track] (2:35)
20. Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run (2:51)
21. Marvin Gaye - This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It's Killing Me) (2:42)
22. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - Shotgun (2:59)
23. Jackson 5 - Make Tonight All Mine (3:18)
24. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (7:00)
25. Stevie Wonder - Superstition (4:26)
26. Gladys Knight & the Pips - The Nitty Gritty (3:04)
27. Edwin Starr - War (3:27)
28. Marvin Gaye - When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (6:15)
29. The Temptations - My Girl (2:57)
30. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Crazy About the La La La (2:53)
31. Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours [Alternate Mix][Alternate Take] (2:46)
32. Diana Ross & the Supremes; The Temptations - Stubborn Kind of Fellow (3:10)

33. Raphael Saadiq - Sure Hope You Mean It (3:40)
34. James Hunter - No Smoke Without Fire (3:05)
35. Duffy - Mercy (3:40)
36. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - If This Ain't Love (Don't Know What Is) (3:28)
37. The Bamboos - Tighten Up (Album Version) (3:55)
38. T Bird and the Breaks - Take Time (5:08)
39. Breakestra - No Matter Where You Go (5:51)
40. The Poets Of Rhythm - Saltin' The Soup (4:10)
41. Alice Russell - Hurry On Now (4:39)
42. Joss Stone - Don't Cha Wanna Ride (3:31)
43. Sugarman Three - Soul Donkey (3:48)
44. The Bo-Keys - Deuce and a Quarter (4:27)
45. Ryan Shaw - It Gets Better (3:29)
46. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - How Long Do I Have To Wait For You? (4:03)
47. Little Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around Me (3:00)
48. Orgone - Who Knows Who? (3:36)
49. Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On (3:35)

(soul 25)