James Booker - Resurrection Of The Bayou Maharajah (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982) (1993/2019)

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Artist: James Booker
Title: Resurrection Of The Bayou Maharajah (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
Year Of Release: 1993/2019
Label: Rounder Records
Genre: Blues, Piano Blues, Jazz
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:11:57
Total Size: 168 mb | 357 mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Medley: Slow Down / Bony Maronie / Knock On Wood / I Heard It Through The Grapevine / Classified (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
02. Medley: Tico Tico / Papa Was A Rascal (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
03. Medley: Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Ballad At The Maple Leaf (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
04. Minute Waltz (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
05. All By Myself (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
06. Save Your Love For Me (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
07. Junco Partner (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
08. St. James Infirmary (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
09. Gitanarias (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
10. Medley: Life / Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee / It Should Have Been Me (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
11. Medley: Pop's Dilemma / Irene Goodnight (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)

For a man of such talent and influence, New Orleans piano legend James Booker is amazingly under-recorded. This disc and its partner (Spiders on the Keys) offer up some measure of what the folks of the Big Easy might have heard if they caught Booker on one of his "on" nights (he was a known drug user and inconsistent in his playing). He is at his best here (recorded at the Maple Leaf between 1972-1982), focused and intense in his playing, wildly passionate on both keyboards and vocals. Some songs are repeated on the companion disc, but each treatment makes the songs new again, so that even his standards are always fresh and vital. Sheer genius at the keyboards and unrestrained, heartfelt vocals on such highlights as Fats Domino's "All By Myself," "The Fat Man," and "St. James Infirmary."

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