The Wild Sound of New Orleans: The Complete 'Tousan' Sessions

1. Whirlaway
2. Happy Times
3. Up the Creek
4. Tim Tam
5. Me and You
6. Bono
7. Java
8. Wham Tousan
9. Nowhere to Go
10. Nashua
11. Po' Boy Walk
12. Pelican Parade
13. Chico
14. (Back Home Again In) Indiana
15. Second Liner
16. Cow Cow Blues
17. Moo Moo
18. Sweetie Pie (Twenty Years Later)
19. You Didn't Know, Did You
20. Up Right
21. Blue Mood
22. Lazy Day [With Organ]
23. Naomi
24. Al's Theme
25. Real Churchy [Without Organ]
26. Lazy Day [With Organ]
27. Real Churchy [With Organ]

This is Bear family set of early recordings of legendary  producer, bandleader, arranger, songwriter, session musician and all-around musical eminence Allen Toussaint, disk includes Java and some more famous hits.

He was about 20 when this records were made, but he played amazing with great band!

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Any Old Time String Band - I Bid You Goodnight

1 Turkey Buzzard/Chinquapin Hunting Traditional 2:47
2 Dear Companion Traditional 4:10
3 Let Me Fall 2:16
4 I Wish I'd Stayed in the Wagonyard 2:51
5 Ma Chere Bebe Creole [My Sweet Creole Babe] 3:00
6 Dixieland One-Step LaRocca, Robinson 2:07
7 Home in Pasadena Clark, Leslie, Warren 4:14
8 Long Lost Lover Blues 4:46
9 Valse de Orphelin 3:04
10 I'll See You in C-U-B-A Berlin 4:47
11 Free Little Bird 2:31
12 I've Got What It Takes 3:51
13 Hello Stranger Carter 2:18
14 La Valse de Bayou Teche 2:28
15 Shady Grove 2:22
16 California Blues 3:33
17 Cowboy Girl 3:01
18 I Made a Big Mistake (Gros Erreur) Miller 3:17
19 Lock and Key 3:21
20 Falls of Richmond/Camp Chase 2:59
21 La Porte Dans Arriere (The Back Door) 2:50
22 Oklahoma Blues 2:53
23 Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy 2:50
24 Farewell Blues 3:39
25 I Bid You Goodnight

Combining their two LP's on one disc, this extremely accomplished and versatile female string band rips through 25 songs in just under 80 minutes, all the while managing to throw out a dizzying array of influences. Featuring truly exemplary instrumental skills, as well as excellent harmony singing, Any Old Time String Band bounce with apparent ease from exuberant fiddle tunes to 20's and 30's pop influences and Cajun tunes. Bluesier material is represented with covers of two Bessie Smith tracks, "I've Got What It Takes" and "Lock and Key," as well as Ma Rainey's "Fairwell Blues." More traditional country elements are also found with the outstanding harmony singing on the Carter Family's "Hello Stranger" and the straightlaced cover of Jimmie Rodgers "California Blues." Still, a great deal of the material is just good natured down-home country picking, as the instrumentals here are solid if not flashy. Overall, Any Old Time String Band cover their bases like very few others can, making it nearly impossible to find any fault with this collection.

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Rockin' Dopsie Jr - Zydeco Man

1 I'm the Zydeco Man Chenier 4:05 
2 Jambalaya (On the Bayou) Williams 4:33
3 Lucille Rubin 4:19
4 Ay-Te Te Fee Chenir 3:33
5 Party Down Rubin 5:50
6 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Hill 4:38
7 Keep a Knockin' Little Richard 3:27
8 Bad Luck and Trouble Rubin 7:06
9 Show Me How to Zydeco Rubin 4:48
10 Tell Me Why Rubin 5:26
11 Bring Back the Old Time Zydeco Rubin 5:21
12 How Sweet It Is Dozier, Holland 3:21
13 Listen to the Music Johnston 3:59

This Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. disc serves as a good introduction to what might now be called old-time zydeco. This zydeco band veteran recorded a solid group of songs in his style and also some songs not associated with the genre, showing how to take a standard like "How Sweet It Is" and zydeco it up. There is a closeness here that comes from family -- and that is particularly what this disc shows. This band was originally Rockin' Dopsie Jr.'s father's band and contains two of his brothers, Alton "Dopsie" Rubin Jr. on drums and Anthony "Dopsie" Rubin on accordion. The rest of the band -- one of the best around -- is a solid unit anchored by the guitar work of Paul "Lil' Buck" Sinegal and Alonzo Johnson on bass.

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