Various Artists - Soul City New Orleans - Big Easy Gems From The Dawn Of Soul Music (2014 ) 2 x CD - Fantastic Voyage - Rare R&B/Soul (FLAC 454MB)

Soul City New Orleans presents records which served to establish the musical direction of the city in the early 1960s, at the dawn of the soul era. Perhaps the most glowing testimony to the city came from songwriters Frank Guida and Joe Royster in their 1960 smash hit New Orleans for Gary U.S. Bonds: "Where the magnolia blossoms fill the air, you ain t been to heaven if you ain t been there". New Orleans is also known as the Crescent City for its geographic shape, or the Big Easy for the city s atmosphere and pace of life, largely driven by the high humidity and the general cheerful & friendly nature of the people of that area. The music of New Orleans has tended to match the lifestyle; an easy tempo with gently insistent rolling beats and a rhythm driven either by a thumping on beat (Mardi Gras marching bands and second-line parades) or a laid back off beat. While the formative talent from the city s rhythm & blues years were all signed to remote labels, by the end of the Fifties things were beginning to look up in the local industry, and there was a relative wealth of labels active in the city. This superb 60 track 2 x CD set, came with a great booklet,..........if anyone has it please send it on as mine destroyed .... Soul City New Orleans features significant releases on local labels like Minit, Instant, Ric, Ron, Bandy and AFO, as well as NOLA-related recordings for other labels both large and small. Venerable soul stalwarts, Lee Dorsey, Aaron Neville, and the Soul Queen of New Orleans herself, Irma Thomas, rub shoulders with lesser known but equally sumptuous material from Barbara Lynn, Earl King, Huey Piano Smith, Eddie Bo, Barbara George and Ernie K-Doe. Here we have the finest from the dawn of the soul era in the Big Easy. There was a limited edition 28-track 2 x LP vinyl set issued, but now deleted from stock, and copies of this also scarce. Wonderful album across the N.O.Board.!

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