Clambake on Bourbon Street

Recorded at 116 Royal Street, New Orleans

Cook Records COOK11815

Series: Road Recordings
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: United States
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz, World, & Country
Style: Jazz, Ragtime
[Tracklist]
A1 Some of These Days (02:40)
A2 St. Louis Blues (03:56)
A3 Old Grey Bonnet (02:35)
A4 All of Me (02:38)
A5 That's a Plenty (03:59)
B1 In a Little Spanish Town (02:41)
B2 Waffle Man Blues (03:37)
B3 Indiana (02:22)
B4 Darkness on the Delta (03:00)
B5 Swanee River (02:31)
[Credits]
Recorder: Emory Cook, Cover Artwork: Don Smith
[Notes]
Polished off with a saucy French Creole chorus, Queen Mother of the Rue Royale Ms. Lizzie Miles treats you to the lustiest "All of Me" you'll ever hear. Tony Costa of the Parisian Room Band contributes a squealing clarinet that is matched only by pianist Red Camp's dazzling finger displays. And no one can touch band leader Tony Almerico's trumpeting. But one of the most special moments here is the Louis-Armstrong type grovel that Sam DeKemel spits out on "Waffle Man Blues," interspersed with his bugling blues. All together, this is stellar Dixieland jazz.

Lizzie Miles: Hot Songs My Mother Taught Me

Cook – 1183

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1956
Genre: Blues, World, & Country
Style: Blues
[Tracklist]
A1 Waitin' For The Robert E. Lee (2:53)
A2 Who's Sorry Now (2:32)
A3 Mama Don' Allow It (4:39)
A4 Take Yo' Finger Off It (3:12)
A5 Bill Bailey (2:25)
A6 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (4:05)
A7 Chinatown (1:39)
B1 A Cottage For Sale (3:52)
B2 Ballin The Jack (3:06)
B3 Dyin' Rag (4:21)
B4 Georgia On My Mind (5:50)
B5 Tishomingo Blues (4:03)
B6 The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise (2:36)
[Credits]
Lizzy Miles (vocals) Albert French (banjo) Red Camp (piano) Tony Almerico's Band (backing)
Photographer: J. Rennick, Recorder: Emory Cook
[Notes]
"To me I sing love songs—sad songs—torchy songs better. Guess it's because I had such a hard, sad life from as far back as I can remember is why." Cryin' songs and dyin' songs are the substance of Creole Songbird Lizzy Miles' musical outpourings. Pianist Red Camp, banjoist Albert French and Tony Almerico's Parisian Room Band outpour right along with her in this late recording. And so we hear this scintillating blend of outpourings when "Mama don't allow no clarinet playin' in here...but Tony don't care what Mama don't allow, he's gonna play that clarinet anyhow." (Hear more of Miles' moans in COOK01182 Moans and Blues and COOK01184 Torchy Lullabies My Mother Sang Me.)

Lizzie Miles: Moans & Blues

Cook – 1182

Format: Vinyl, LP, Blue Translucent Vinyl
Country: US
Released: 1954
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Louisiana Blues
[Tracklist]
A1 Memphis Blues (3:47)
A2 Can't Help Lovin' That Man (3:56)
A3 I Ain't Gonna Give You Any Of My Jelly Roll (2:48)
A4 There'll Be Some Changes Made (3:17)
A5 Louisiana (3:40)
A6 Sugar Blues (3:12)
A7 Lazy River (3:02)
B1 Goin' Away To Wear You Off My Mind (4:05)
B2 Mama's Lonesome For You (2:26)
B3 I Never Knew What The Blues Were (3:06)
B4 Papa Won't You Tell Me What You Done To Me (2:28)
B5 Basin Street Blues (3:50)
B6 Animal Ball (1:26)
B7 Plain Ol' Blues (3:41)
B8 When You're A Long Long Way From Home (3:01)
[Credits]
Lizzie Miles (vocals) Red Camp (piano) Tony Almerico's All-Stars (band)
[Notes]
Blues doesn't get more New Orleans sweet-an'-sour than when it's done by Creole Songbird Lizzie Miles. Sweet she appreciates: "I ain't gonna give you none of my jelly-roll...not to save your soul." But the sour is always in balance: "Because I've been mistreated, I feel that I could die...I'm goin' away, just to get you off my mind." This legendary herald of the blues is joined by pianist Red Camp and Tony Almerico's All Stars band at the Bourbon Street Mardi Gras Lounge. (See also COOK01183 Hot Songs My Mother Taught Me and COOK01184 Torchy Lullabies My Mother Sang Me.)