Essential Music of New Orleans: Professor Longhair and Dr. John

In this I will be posting various musicians and albums that are essential to the music of New Orleans. To start Professor Longhair, famous for his songs about Jambalaya, Tipitina (famous music club), Go to the Mardi Gras, Stag o Lee, etc.   A good place to start is his great album  of songs Rock and Roll Gumbo.

Here is a youtube of Go to the Mardi Gras:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wAMr3V5lN4

Here is Tipitina:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-lsiDJWMsQ

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Jambalaya:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI85doNXwFk

Next we will introduce Dr. John and his music and his famous album: Dr. John's Gumbo. Here is a recent article about him in the Wall Street Journal.