Though the festival attracts some of the biggest rock stars on the planet, the focus of this ambitious new box set is on the roots of Louisiana music, which comprise the vast majority of the festival’s bookings, from Jazz to Bounce, Zydeco to Gospel, Brass Bands to R&B.
Carefully selected from countless hours of live recordings, the box set includes unreleased material spanning the years 1974 to 2016 and features key moments with celebrated artists like Trombone Shorty, Irma Thomas, Big Freedia, Professor Longhair, The Neville Brothers, Allen Toussaint (solo and in a duet with Bonnie Raitt), Dr. John, Kermit Ruffins, Terence Blanchard, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Champion Jack Dupree, and Buckwheat Zydeco, among many others.
CD1:
1. the Golden Eagles – Indian Red [04:03]
2. Larry McKinley – Welcome to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival [00:09]
3. Trombone Shorty – One Night Only (The March) [03:27]
4. Donald Harrison, Jr. – Free to Be [08:39]
5. Danny Barker – Basin Street Blues [06:23]
6. Terence Blanchard – A Streetcar Named Desire [09:03]
7. Kermit Ruffins Big Band – Royal Garden Blues [05:47]
8. Champion Jack Dupree – Bring Me Flowers While I’m Living / Rub a Little Boogie [09:52]
9. George Wein – Back Home Again in Indiana [06:31]
10. John Boutte – Louisiana 1927 [07:11]
CD2:
1. Allen Toussaint – Yes We Can Can [04:51]
2. Earl King – Trick Bag [04:56]
3. Irma Thomas – Ruler of My Heart [03:04]
4. Snooks Eaglin – Dizzy Miss Lizzy [03:54]
5. Clarence “Frogman” Henry – Ain’t Got No Home [06:31]
6. The White Eagles – Big Chief Got the Golden Crown [07:29]
7. Professor Longhair – Big Chief [03:49]
8. Dixie Cups – Iko Iko / Brother John / Saints Go Marching In [07:02]
9. Marcia Ball – Red Beans [05:14]
10. Dr. John – Litanie Des Saints / Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya / I Walk on Gilded Splinters [12:03]
CD3:
1. Ray Hackett – How Ya Gonna Clap? [00:22]
2. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Blackbird Special [07:30]
3. Henry Butler – Hey Now, Baby [06:23]
4. Germaine Bazzle – Secret Love [08:54]
5. Al Belletto Big Band – Jazznocracy [05:14]
6. Original Liberty Jazz Band – Summertime [07:36]
7. Preservation Hall Jazz Band – My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It [07:19]
8. The Zion Harmonizers – I Want to Be at That Meeting / Golden Gate Gospel Train [07:48]
9. Irma Thomas – Old Rugged Cross [04:13]
10. Raymond Myles – Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus [06:42]
11. Johnson Extension – I Can Go to God in Prayer [06:57]
CD4:
1. Buckwheat Zydeco – Hard to Stop [09:59]
2. Boozoo Chavis – Paper in My Shoe [03:32]
3. The Savoy Family Cajun Band – Midland Two-Step [03:49]
4. Bruce Daigrepont – [04:29]
5. BeauSoleil – Recherche D’acadie [04:24]
6. The Neville Brothers – Yellow Moon [07:16]
7. John Campbell – When the Levee Breaks [06:18]
8. John Mooney – It Don’t Mean a Doggone Thing [05:06]
9. Kenny Neal – Starlight Diamond / Jimmy Reed Medley: You Don’t Have to Go / Baby, What You Want Me to Do / Going to New York / Honest I Do [13:05]
10. Allen Toussaint – What is Success [06:15]
11. Tommy Ridgley – Double-Eyed Whammy [03:46]
CD5:
1. Funky Meters – Fire on the Bayou [09:19]
2. Clarence Gatemouth Brown – Take the “a” Train [04:27]
3. Walter Wolfman Washington – Blue Moon Rising [07:00]
4. Deacon John – Happy Home [05:08]
5. Larry McKinley – Rain Alert [00:17]
6. Sonny Landreth – Blue Tarp Blues [05:40]
7. Anders Osborne – Back on Dumaine [06:25]
8. The Subdudes – Thorn in Her Side [04:57]
9. Big Freedia – N.O. Bounce [03:23]
10. Wild Magnolias – Smoke My Peace Pipe [07:04]
11. The Neville Brothers – Amazing Grace / One Love [07:46]
