Live on the Queen Mary

by Professor Longhair

Overview

Ask what was Paul and Linda McCartney's most important contribution to music, and you just might get the answer -- this album, which is also more exciting than anything Wings ever did. Professor Longhair's first live recording came about at a March 24, 1975 party hosted by the McCartneys aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. It captures some of the excitement that Ahmet Ertegun and several lesser-known talent scouts found when they came upon Harry Roeland Byrd playing road houses around New Orleans in the late 1940s. Highlights include the rollicking "Mess Around," and the standards "Stagger Lee," "Everyday I Have the Blues," "I'm Movin' On," and his hits "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" and "Tipitina." The lack of instrumental credits prevents one from praising the lead guitarist by name for his playing on "Everyday I Have the Blues" and "I'm Movin' On," but he and the rest of the band still do well backing this legend. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	04/05/2019
Label:	Capitol / Decca
UPC:	0602577284854
Rank:	72188

Tracks

1. Tell Me Pretty Baby
2. Mess Around
3. Every Day I Have the Blues
4. Tipitina
5. I'm Movin' On
6. Mardi Gras in New Orleans
7. Cry to Me
8. Gone So Long
9. Stagger Lee

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Professor Longhair   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals

Technical Credits

Tom Wilson   Producer
Lloyd Price   Composer
Roland Byrd   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Bert Russell   Composer
Robert Palmer   Composer
Cosimo Matassa   Composer
Joe Turner   Composer
Peter Chatman   Composer
Roy Byrd   Composer
Professor Longhair   Composer
Memphis Slim   Composer
Ahmet Ertegun   Composer
Hank Snow   Composer
Harold Logan   Composer
Henry Roeland Byrd   Composer