New Orleans is generally credited as the birthplace of jazz music, but has attracted less attention as a center of the blues. The 12 bar blues were well known in the city before most of the rest of the country. Buddy Bolden's band was remembered at excelling on playing blues before 1906. Anthony Maggio's "I Got the Blues" was an early example of published blues sheet music from 1908. The Original Dixieland Jass Band's "Livery Stable Blues", generally considered the first jazz record, is in a fast blues form.
Although it has drawn to it and produced fewer blues musicians than other major US urban centers with large African-American populations, it has been the center of a distinctive form of blues music, which has been pursued by some notable musicians and produced important recordings.
In the period after World War II a very large number of recordings were produced in the city that were informed by the blues, but had strong R&B and pop influences that anticipated rock and roll and are difficult to classify. Among these artists among the most highly regarded and most influenced by the blues was piano-player Professor Longhair, whose signature song "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" (1949) and other recordings like "Tipitina" (1959) were major R&B hits and who remained a central figure in New Orleans music through to his death in 1980. Other significant figures playing keyboard-based blues include James Booker, whose organ instrumental "Gonzo" reached the top fifty in the Billboard chart in 1960 and was followed by a series of minor single hits
The most significant blues guitarist to emerge from the city in the post-World War II period was Guitar Slim. Originally from the Delta, his "The Things That I Used to Do", which combined gospel, blues and R&B, was a major R&B hit in 1954 and may have influenced the development of later soul music. It also influenced the development of rock music, having been included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, featuring an electric guitar solo with distorted overtones. Other important blues guitarists from the city include Snooks Eaglin, who recorded both acoustic folk and electric-based R&B, and Earl King, who composed blues standards including "Come On" (covered by Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan) and Professor Longhair's "Big Chief". Also among the major figures of the genre was Dr. John, who began as a guitarist and enjoyed regional success with the Bo Diddley influenced "Storm Warning" in 1959 and a highly successful career from the 1960s after moving to Los Angeles, mixing R&B with psychedelic rock and using New Orleans themed aesthetics.
The careers of many New Orleans bluesmen declined in the 1960s as rock and roll and soul began to dominate popular music, but revived in the 1970s as there was renewed interest in their recordings
Disc: 1
1. James Alley
2. Where Have All The Black Men Gone
3. Central Avenue Blues
4. Electrocuted Blues
5. Good Old Turnip Greens
6. Far Away From Home Blues
7. God Moves On the Water
8. The Reverend Is My Man
9. Blues de Basille
10. Times Is Tight Like That
11. Les Blues De La Prison
12. Lean To One Woman
13. Alberta
14. These Jackson Women Will Not Treat You Right
15. Vicksburg Blues No. 2
16. Raise Your Window
17. Ride My Mule
18. Rats Been On My Cheese
19. Evil Hearted Woman
20. You Gonna Look Like A Monkey When You Get Old
21. Bo Carter's Advice
22. If You Don't Want Me Please Don't Dog Me Around
23. Lumber-Yard Blues
24. Young Heifer Blues
25. Crescent City Blues
Disc: 2
1. Good Rockin' Tonight
2. Annie's Blues
3. Here Comes Smiley
4. New Orleans Lover Man
5. Girt Town Blues
6. Never Missed My Baby
7. New Orleans Women Blues
8. Mardi Gras In New Orleans
9. Shrewsbury Blues
10. 3 X 7 = 21
11. The Fat Man
12. Pack Your Rags And Go
13. Bat-Lee Swing
14. Stack-A'Lee Part I
15. Blow Your Top
16. Street Walkin' Daddy
17. New Arrival
18. Jealous Blues
19. Mailman Blues
20. Joe's Kid Sister
21. P.L. Blues
22. Crawdad Hole
23. Bad Dog
24. I'll Never Let You Go
25. I Wonder Who
Disc: 3
1. The Things That I Used To Do
2. Something's Wrong
3. Goin' Down
4. Pony Tail
5. Jock-A-Mo
6. Say Baby
7. Wine, Women & Whiskey
8. When The Sun Goes Down
9. You Ain't So Much A Much
10. Eating And Sleeping
11. Runnin' Wild
12. Single Life
13. Sweet Old Chicago
14. Country Woman
15. Dust My Blues
16. Directly From My Heart
17. Who's Been Fooling You?
18. See You Later Alligator
19. Let The Good Times Roll
20. Let The Four Winds Blow
21. Goodbye Blues
22. Troubles, Troubles
23. There's A Will There's A Way
24. That Certain Door
25. You Don't Have To Go
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