The Louisiana Shakers Music

"...the freshness that The Shakers bring to these tunes and to all the tunes they play is to me, the very spirit of New Orleans Music." Stu Morrison - LINER NOTES	Playing Tough 1. The Girls Go Crazy MP3 grab 2. Sobbin' Blues MP3 grab 3. South of the Border 4. In the Sweet Bye and Bye 5. Last Night on the Back Porch 6. Goodnight Sweetheart 7. I Get the Blues When It Rains 8. Beer Barrel Polka 9. Black Cat on the Fence 10. Yes Lord I'm Crippled 11. Dauphine St Blues 12. Hey Look Me Over 13. He'll Understand and Say Well Done 14. Bugle Boy March Black Market Music 2004 BMM286.2

The Shakers have become noted for the quality and sincerity of their "downhome" New Orleans style. Their philosophy is to go back to basics. It is not easy to find jazz of this purity and integrity in New Orleans today. Horace Meunier Harris - LINER NOTES	Making Runs 1. Making Runs MP3 grab 2. L.O.V.E. 3. Lindsay Goes Bananas (Kid Thomas Boogie Woogie) MP3 grab 4. When You and I Were Young Maggie 5. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) 6. Anytime 7. Panama 8. I Got Drunk Last Night Baby 9. Tie Me To Your Apron Strings Again 10. The Old Rugged Cross 11. The Second Line P.E.K. Sound 2002 PKCD-193

The Shakers (as The Louisiana Shakers are universally known) are more than a bit of a phenomenon. They enjoy world-wide popularity in a modern era. It's phenomenal because they play New Orleans music in the Rediscovery Style. This was the way of playing jazz that blossomed throughout the world in the wake of the finding of Bunk Johnson and other jazzmen who had continued to play in the Crescent City during the 30's and 40's. Tony Standish - LINER NOTES	On A Coconut Island 1. Careless Love MP3 grab 2. Ciribiribin MP3 grab 3. On A Coconut Island 4. Canal Street Blues 5. My Little Girl 6. Song of the Islands 7. Climax Rag 8. In the Upper Garden 9. Down Among the Sheltering Palms 10. Love Letters in the Sand 11. I Love You 12. The Darktown Strutters Ball 13. Ole Miss 14. Willie the Weeper Black Market Music 2001 BMM244.2

"...this is a great album. It is one you listen to again and again and still find something fresh in the collective improvisation" Dave Parsons - Geelong Jazz Club NEWSLETTER "the style is 'New Orleans' New Orleans; everyone's chops are up; the ambience is great; the music sounds fresh and it swings" Ausjazz LISTINGS	The Louisiana Shakers 1. Shake it and Break it 2. My Bucket's Got a Hole in it MP3 grab 3. Cradle Song 4. Will the Circle Be Unbroken 5. Red Wing MP3 grab 6. Mexicali Rose 7. My Darling Nellie Gray 8. All I Do is Dream of You MP3 grab 9. Swanee River 10. The Eyes of Texas 11. Alabama Bound 12. Collegiate 13. Gettysburg March Newmarket Music 1996 NEW2015.2

"...the music lopes along in a jaunty New Orleans neighbourhood style... ...floating rhythm section, lyrical and expertly woven front lines... Nick Polites has never sounded better on record... Charles plays with his usual droll eloquence, while Coughdrop's lead has a ghostly, wistful echo of good Colyer" Tony Standish - STANDISH & Co. NEWSLETTER	One New Orleans Night 1. 'neath Hawaiian Skies MP3 grab 2. One Night 3. My Life Will Be Sweeter Some Day 4. Does Jesus Care? MP3 grab 5. Clarinet Marmalade 6. Magic is the Moonlight 7. Let Me Call You Sweetheart 8. Only You MP3 grab 9. I Saw Your Face in the Moon 10. Faraway Blues P.E.K. Sound 1998 PKCD-100

"...and you get The Louisiana Shakers, from Australia, the most polished team, sporting an upbeat mood, tough minded attack, plenty of rhythm and a few tunes not commonly waxed" Tex Wyndham - The American Rag	Traditional Jazz Around the World - Volume 1 compilation cd 1. Don't Go 'way Nobody MP3 grab 2. Deep Bayou Blues MP3 grab 3. Long, Long Ago 4. Ramblin' Rose 5. Johnny Casimir's Whooping Blues Jazz Crusade 1996 JCCD-3023
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