Ernie K-Doe vs. Lee Dorsey

I don't think you can lose here, but I'm in about the same boat.

Lee Dorsey for more songs I know and love. Which seems unfair to EKD, but so beet.

Mother In Law vs. Working in a Coalmine alone is impossible.

Factor in one man's cape and one man's funk and I'm just overwhelmed.

dorsey is better for this time of year.

feel like i should pick dorsey because there's way more, but there's probably nothing i like as much as mother in law. i think i might've only heard the b-side to it for my full knowledge of e k d

The best part of "Mother-In-Law" being the hook bass vocal by Benny Spellman is kind of another reason not to vote for Ernie.

yes we can vote for Lee Dorsey (one of my all-time favorite singers ever), revered by everyone from Van Dyke Parks to Devo to Pointer Sisters to O himself.

Dorsey's got a much more impressive body of work, but "Mother in Law" is the balls.

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From Offbeat magazine:

The End of an Era: The Mother-In-Law Lounge Closes

Sadly the Mother-In-Law Lounge, named after the Allen Toussaint-penned song that was performed by the late Ernie K-Doe, will soon close its doors.

K-Doe passed away in July 2001, and his widow Antoinette kept the bar as a tribute to her late husband and a quirky barroom that not only hosted R&B acts, but young performers, such as Quintron and many more. It was a gathering place for many a New Orleans music cognescenti, and was even included in a recent episode of HBO's Treme as the meeting place for the captains of the Krewe du Vieux.

Antoinette K-Doe died on Mardi Gras day in 2009, and it was hoped that the legacy of the bar would be continued by Mrs. K-Doe's family. But that was not to be. Betty Fox, Antoinette's daughter, has not been able to keep the bar operating, and she's closing it, according to recent Times-Picayune report.

Perhaps the Mother-In-Law should be added as one of those historic spots in New Orleans musical lore. Historic Landmarks Commission...get busy!

This was a Sunday March 25 panel at the EMP Pop Conference

New Orleans
Venue: KC 804/5
Moderated by: Blake Leyh(music supervisor for Treme tv show)
Featuring:
Ben Sandmel, "Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans ('Mother-In-Law,' 'Ma-Naughahyde,' and Grassroots Surrealism)"

Sandmel is working on a K-Doe book, I hear

http://blog.nola.com/entertainment_impact_music/print.html?entry=/2012/04/ernie_k-doe_biography_tells_ta.html

Sandmel's book on K-Doe is out. Book signings in the Big Easy today and Saturday.

Awesome, want that book. I would have loved a bonus cd of K-Doe's spiels on WWOZ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNSdf9i0ixA

I made it to the Mother-In-Law lounge twice; if I can ever find and scan my photos I'll put some up.

If June, 2001 was his last public appearance, I'm guessing my second time seeing him at his club was spring of that year during Jazzfest.

Would love to read that