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Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans is a 2004 box set compilation gathering 85 songs representing the music of New Orleans from the 1920s to 2003. Represented on the album is a variety of musical genres, including jazz, R&B and blues, and a number of musicians, mingling noted artists such as Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Dr. John and the Neville Brothers with less renowned musicians.



VA - Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans
Label: Shout! Factory
Format: 4 x CD, Box Set, Compilation
Released: October 26, 2004
Country: US
Genre: Rock, Blues, R&B, Jazz, Zydeco


Tracklist:

Disc 1

Welcome to New Orleans - Galactic, Theryl DeClouet
Drop Me Off in New Orleans - Kermit Ruffins
I'm Walkin' - Fats Domino
Iko Iko - Dr. John
Potato Head Blues - Armstrong, Louis & His Hot Seven
My Darlin' New Orleans - Lil' Queenie, Percolators
Para Donde Vas (Where Are You Going) - Iguanas
Meet the Boyz on the Battlefront - Anders Osborne, Boudreaux, "Big Chief" Monk
Ain't Got No Home - Henry, Clarence "Frogman"
Feel Like Funkin' It Up - Rebirth Brass Band
Zydeco Gris-Gris - Beausoleil
Mother-In-Law - Ernie K-Doe
That's Enough of That Stuff - Marcia Ball
Confidential - Radiators
Hey Pocky A-Way - Meters
I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say Jelly Roll MOrton
Foot of Canal Street - Paul Sanchez
Down in Honky Tonk Town [live] - Vernel Bagneris
Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu - Huey "Piano" Smith
More Hipper - Jon Cleary
Release Me - Johnny Adams
Preachin' Blues - Bechet, Sidney & His New Orleans Feet Warmers
Jambalaya [live] - Clifton Chenier

Disc 2

Dog Days - Leigh Harris
No City Like New Orleans - Earl King
Salée Dames, Bon Jour - Don Vappie, Creole Jazz Serenaders
Marshall's Club - Balfa Toujours
You Can Have My Husband [live] - Irma Thomas
Go Go - Galactic
Not Too Eggy - New Oleans Klezmer All Stars
St. James Infirmary - Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Going Back to New Orleans - Moore, Deacon John
Hot Tamale Baby - Buckwheat Zydeco
Fear, Hate, Envy, Jealousy [live] - Neville Brothers
Poop Ain't Gotta Scuffle No More - James Andrews
Mardi Gras Mambo - Hawketts
Ice Cream - Lewis, George's Ragtime Band
No Doubt About It - J. Monque'd
Don't You Feel My Leg - Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Dog Hill - Boozoo Chavis
Au Bord de Lac Bijou - Zachary Richard
Mardi Gras in New Orleans - Tuba Fats' Chosen Few Brass Band

Disc 3

Shrimp and Gumbo - Dave Bartholomew
St. Phillip Street Breakdown - Michael White
Going Back to Louisiana - Brown, Clarence "Gatemouth"
Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville
The Saints - Coolbone
Canaille - Geno Delafose
Carnival Time - Al Johnson
La Negra Tomasa - Omar, Fredy Con Su Banda
Let the Good Times Roll - Shirley & Lee
The Broken Windmill - Tom McDermott
Way Down - Dupree, Champion Jack
Hallelujah [live] - Raymond Myles
I Hear You Knocking Smiley Lewis
La Crève de Faim (Starvation 2-Step) Steve Riley
Main Street Blues - Red Stick Ramblers
Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford
Tee-Nah-Nah [live] - Henry Butler
Smoke That Fire - New Birth Brass Band
Give Him Cornbread [live] - Beau Jocque
I Like It Like That - Chris Kenner
Classified [live] - James Booker
Southern Nights - Allen Toussaint

Disc 4

Tipitina - Professor Longhair
Party - Wild Magnolias
Dr. Jazz - Ellis Marsalis
Ooh Poo Pah Doo - Troy Andrews
South of I-10 - Sonny Landreth
Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) - Benny Spellman
The Right Key but the Wrong Keyhole [live] - Neville, Charmaine Band
Rip It Up - Little Richard
Royal Garden Blues - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
Stoned, Drunk & Naked - Anders Osborne
Laissez Faire (Let It Be) - Bruce Daigrepont
Digga-Digga-Do [live] New Orleans - Jazz Vipers
Tailspin - Washington Walter "Wolfman"
Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Lloyd Price
Havin' Fun in New Orleans - Eddie Bo
King of the Mardi Gras - Tim Laughlin
Red Beans - Snooks Eaglin
S.U.V. - Mem Shannon, Membership
'Tits Yeux Noirs (Little Black Eyes) - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
Lazy River [live] - Fountain, Pete & His Band
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? - Armstrong, Louis



Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

It reads splendidly on paper: Shout Factory's Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans is a traveler's guide to the legendary city's rich musical heritage. Over the course of four discs, it attempts to touch on all of the kinds of music associated with New Orleans -- everything from brass bands and piano blues to zydeco, jazz and klezmer -- and represent recordings from the '20s to the modern day. Add an 84-page book, complete with advice on where tourists should go in the Crescent City, and it seems like this is the definitive word on New Orleans. Well, not quite. While the idea of mixing eras is theoretically appealing, since it would emphasize common threads within New Orleans music, it winds up being distracting not only because of the different qualities of recordings, but because the sequencing isn't logical; instead of leading the listener through the changes, subtly instructing on the similarities between the seemingly dissimilar styles, the box seems like it's stuck on shuffle-play, whipping between songs without much rhyme or reason. And that haphazard sequencing brings another troubling flaw with the set into sharp relief: the musicians behind the recent recordings simply aren't a patch on the giants that provide New Orleans music with its heart, soul, blood and bone. Those musicians are here, no doubt -- Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, Allen Toussaint, the Meters, Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis, the Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Huey "Piano" Smith -- are all here, but when they're combined with solid but undistinguished modern artists, the results are less than definitive. It's pleasant, and representative of what you'd hear on a trip to New Orleans, and the book is highly instructive, but as a pure, enjoyable listening experience, Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens pales next to previous New Orleans sets