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Mitch Woods
Big Easy Boogie (CD + Bonus DVD)
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Big Easy Boogie
2. Thought I Heard Satchmo Say
3. Fallin' For You
4. Counting The Days
5. Mojo Mambo
6. Crescent City Flyer
7. Heart And Soul To You
8. Short, Sweet and Tender
9. Back In My Arms Again
10. I Left My Baby At The Mardi Gras Cryin'
11. New Gert Town Blues
12. I'm Ready
13. The Ballad Of Dr. Daddy-O
Track Listings (1) - Disc #2
1. DVD: Live Performance in 5.1 surround sound, plus footage in the studio, interviews, and extras.

CD Details

All Artists: Mitch Woods
Title: Big Easy Boogie (CD + Bonus DVD)
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Club 88 Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 8/14/2006
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Jump Blues, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPCs: 614511735322, 0614511735322

Synopsis

Album Description

Pianist/vocalist Mitch Woods brings together an unsung inner circle of Rock'n'Roll royalty, the original members of the Fats Domino band. This band features the architects of American music, the veritable founding fathers of Rock'n'Roll who laid the musical bedrock at J&M Studios in New orleans in the early 50s that launched so many stars. Earl Palmer has been the drummer of choice for all the Rock'n'Roll immortals from Fats Domino and Little Richard to Sam Cooke and Ray Charles, Richie Valens and Eddie Cochran to the Everly Brothers. Herb Hardesty played sax with Fats Domino from the very beginning and still plays with him today. Woods reunited these legendary players along with others who still play in the Fats Domino band and composed a batch of original tunes modeled after the original Fats Domino material. Legendary producer, Dave Bartholomew (who co-wrote many of Fats' hits) came in on the project to help produce. Along with a live performance in New Orleans featuring these legendary players, the DVD includes rare interviews and a never before seen look at how the music was created in the studio. It is also the story of a younger musician and his initiation into the inner circle of the creators of the uniquely American music we call Rock'n'Roll. This double package includes a complete Big Easy Boogie CD featuring 12 original songs penned by Mitch Woods featuring special guests Maria Muldaur, John Mooney, and Charmaine Neville. The result is a rollickin' gumbo of New Orleans rhythm & blues that is true to the roots of the Mississippi mud from which it sprang.

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CD Reviews

Crescent City gold

Javier Fernandez | Richmond, California USA | 12/03/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Do you like New Orleans music? If so, this set is a must. Since year 2000, Mitch Woods, pianist, singer and composer from San Francisco has been working on a musical project entitled Big Easy Boogie, which pays tribute to the music of his beloved city, New Orleans. He put together original and current musicians of the Fats Domino's band, including Herb Hardesty, Reggie Houston, Jimmy Moliere, Fred Sheppard, Erwing Charles, Jr., Earl Palmer (probably the most recorded drummer in the history of American popular music), and made a recording of his own original music devoted to the Crescent City in one of its most modern studios, the Boiler Room. Eventually, the great Dave Bartholomew joined the project as trumpet player and co-producer.

Mitch, who has been studying the music of New Orleans for years, achieved this project and the result is a DVD/CD set which is a true historical document of the music of the city, and that has been called the Buena Vista Social Club version of the Crescent City. The superb CD includes 12 original compositions, featuring "Thought I Heard Satchmo Say", "Mojo Mambo", "Big Easy Boogie", the terrific instrumental boogie "Crecent City Flyer", to name just a few, and the only non original song, a great rendition of Fats Domino's "I'm ready". Guests such as Maria Muldaur, John Mooney, Charmaine Neville, Alfred "Uganda" Roberts and Tex Stephens are heard on some of the tracks. The DVD includes footage of the recording sessions, with the legendary Dave Bartholomew, live performances of the band in New Orleans during the Jazz Fest, with more guest musicians, and priceless interviews with Herb Hardesty, Earl Palmer, Mitch Woods and Cosimo Matassa, the man who, back in the 50's, recorded New Orleans icons such as Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, James Booker, Dr. John and many others such as Ray Charles, Little Richard, etc. in the historic J&M Recording of North Rampart Street.

Mitch Woods should've been included in the 2007 "Goin' Home. A Tribute to Fats Domino" 2 CD set but, incomprehensibly, he was left out while the record producers opted for big names, some of whom have very little to do with Domino's music.

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