Mardi Gras In New Orleans

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Release Date: 1990

Label: Nighthawk Records

New Orleans, LA on August 19, 1949 (tracks 5, 7).
New Orleans, LA on September 8, 1949 (track 6).
New Orleans, LA, c. November 3, 1949 (tracks 1 to 4).
New Orleans, LA on December 4, 1951 (tracks 8 to 10) (originally on Federal).
St. Louis, MO in 1952 (tracks 11, 12) (originally on Wasco).
New Orleans, LA in November 1953 (track 13) (originally on Atlantic).
New Orleans, LA on March 18, 1957 (tracks 14 to 16) (originally on Ebb).

According to the CD booklet, the version of Tipitina included here is the stronger take issued on 78 and 45 RPM in 1954. The other take was used on Professor Longhair's Atlantic LP.

Additional info taken from The Blues Discography by Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath.

Cover photo: Professor Longhair courtesy Joe Pieffer.

© 1981 Nighthawk Records.

Made in Canada.

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