AMG's "From the Archive" Album of the day (09/10/05): "Rock 'N' Roll Gumby" by Professor Longhair

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I'm gonna do a bunch of these.

I'm downloading this album now and from what I heard already, it's really good.

Well?......

― Voodoo Child, Saturday, 10 September 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

"Gumbo"

sorry.

― Voodoo Child, Saturday, 10 September 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.menwithoutshame.com/gumb.gif

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Saturday, 10 September 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

That album is so completely totally absolutely fucking great. It was the first Fess I ever heard, I think I was a freshman in college, and I was just like, How have I never heard this before? Take just the piano intro to "Hey Now Baby," that in itself is like secrets-of-the-universe stuff right there, the stride and swing and showoff sass of it. Plus the record has Gatemouth Brown on it, so you get all that sweet play between the piano and guitar.

I mean, later I went and found all the original Longhair stuff from 20-25 years earlier, and that's all utterly great too, of course. But he still sounded great in the '70s. I heard Allen Toussaint on the radio the other day. He played his own rearrangement of "Tipitina" and called Professor Longhair the soul of the city. He said something like, "There's a little Professor Longhair in everybody in New Orleans."

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

Also, Dr. John talks about Longhair a lot in his autobiography (which is a great read). He was basically Dr. John's mentor, although I guess he was a lot of people's mentor. Among other things, the book recounts how Fess was a serious pothead, like a lot of the New Orleans guys, but he was very disapproving of Dr. John's junk habit.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

I also notice there's no Professor Longhair C/D thread in the archives. So, just for the record in case Judgment Day comes and ILM is found wanting...CLASSIC.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Never heard this one, but I own Crawfish Fiesta and New Orleans Piano and they're both killers.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

The double Primo Collection, released recently, was the one I was listening to today. Just got it, too. It's '40s and '50s stuff, basically. Hadn't enough time to play both discs tho. Still, some of the tracks sounded "raw" in more ways than one. A couple indicated that the guitar player might have been not quite "in tune" :)

― t**t, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:06 (seventeen years ago)

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