Name: Big Easy Strut: The Essential Professor Longhair
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Big Easy Strut

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Album: Big Easy Strut: The Essential Professor Longhair
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Tipitina
2)	Mardi Gras in New Orleans
3)	Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
4)	How Long Has That Train Been Gone
5)	Hey Now Baby
6)	Junko Partner
7)	Tell Me Pretty Baby
8)	I'm Movin' On
9)	Stagger Lee
10)	Big Chief
11)	501 Boogie
12)	Stompin' With Fess
13)	Hey Little Girl
14)	Bald Head

Album: Big Easy Strut: The Essential Professor Longhair
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Tipitina
2)	Mardi Gras in New Orleans
3)	Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
4)	How Long Has That Train Been Gone
5)	Hey Now Baby
6)	Junko Partner
7)	Tell Me Pretty Baby
8)	I'm Movin' On
9)	Stagger Lee
10)	Big Chief
11)	501 Boogie
12)	Stompin' With Fess
13)	Hey Little Girl
14)	Bald Head

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Henry "Professor Longhair" Byrd (vocals, piano); Wardell Quezergue (arranger); Red Tyler (saxophone); Earl Palmer, Charles "Hungry" Williams (drums).
Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.
Recording information: 12/1979.
For starters, the subtitle "The Essential Professor Longhair" is more than a little misleading. This set is a presentation of the great Roy Byrd, performing at a northside Chicago club called Biddy Mulligan's in December of 1979, shortly before his death. While it is far from the "essential" Professor Longhair, this is a smoking live date that fans will no doubt want to own. With the exception of "I Got My Mojo Working," most of his concert staples are in this mix and the sound quality is right up there. This is not the place to start with the Professor -- perhaps New Orleans Piano on Atlantic is the one for that. Nonetheless, for those who dig New Orleans music at its rawest, and Longhair in tear-it-up mode, Big Easy Strut is a nice one to have on the shelf. ~ Thom Jurek