The Lost Paramount Tapes
James Booker
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Goodnight Irene | James Booker | 3:32 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Feel So Bad | James Booker | 3:55 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Junco Partner | James Booker | 5:14 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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4 |
African Gumbo | James Booker | 2:45 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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5 |
Lah Tee Tah | James Booker | 5:45 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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6 |
So Swell When You're Well | James Booker | 6:18 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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7 |
Stormy Monday (medley) | James Booker | 2:33 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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8 |
Hound Dog (medley) | James Booker | 3:13 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Hole in the Wall | James Booker | 2:14 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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10 |
Tico Tico | James Booker | 5:36 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Junco Partner #2 | James Booker | 3:55 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Songs |
Album Review
This is a disc made by one of the best piano players to come out of New Orleans, James Booker, playing with an all-star band of New Orleans musicians, most of whom Booker befriended during his days with Dr. John. The music sparkles, all the more amazing because it was recorded live in the L.A. area with no overdubs in 1973, and is just being released in 1997 because it was lost for 20 years. This disc hits a groove and does not quit, shifting from straight-ahead blues to an R&B beat, drifting into some complex Caribbean rhythms, moving off into some jazz riffs, but all the time maintaining the original blues feel it started with. All the players get to shine, but it is definitely James Booker's disc.
Customer Reviews
You MUST buy this CD
Just listen to "Goodnight Irene"..... I guarantee that on the basis of just this track, you'll buy the disc..... the talent, the joy, the infection. It would have to be up there with the very great "one off" Cd's of all time......hmmm what others are there as good as this one?.... maybe "All and In the Way", but that was quite a different genre, of course. If you want to invoke the image and sense of funky New Orleans piano playing.... there possibly is no better disc than this.
Biography
Born: 17 December 1939 in New Orleans, LA
Genre: Blues
Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s
Top Albums and Songs By James Booker
![United, Our Thing Will Stand (Disc 1) [Live], James Booker](http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/051/Music/9f/32/0e/mzi.wkyorjvt.100x100-75.jpg)
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
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St. James Infirmary | Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah | 7:04 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Junco Partner | Junco Partner | 5:10 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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3 |
On the Sunny Side of the Street | Junco Partner | 2:33 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Goodnight Irene | Junco Partner | 5:41 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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African Gumbo | The Lost Paramount Tapes | 2:45 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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I'll Be Seeing You | Junco Partner | 2:50 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Medley: Blues Minuet / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Baby Won't You | Junco Partner | 6:44 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Put Out the Light | Junco Partner | 3:08 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Pop's Dilemma | Junco Partner | 3:28 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Make a Better World | Junco Partner | 4:53 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
- $16.99
- Genres: Blues, Music, Delta Blues, R&B/Soul, Acoustic Blues, Jazz, New Age
- Released: 11 March 1997
- ℗ 1997 DJM Records
