Soul Jazz Records’ returns with their most successful series to date, ‘New Orleans Funk’. This new instalment subtitled ‘Two-Way-Pocky-Way, Gumbo Ya Ya and the Mardi Gras Mambo’ features more classic New Orleans funk in all its forms. The syncopated percussion beat of the second line jazz parade bands, the secret language and dances of the Mardi Gras Indians, the mambo and latin rhythms of Professor Longhair and the city’s many piano players help make New Orleans a unique musical melting pot. A seemingly endless line of amazing singers - Lee Dorsey, Betty Harris, Willie West, Eldridge Holmes - released a constant stream of stunning 45s.

Track Listing:

1. Fairchild - Willie West
2. Go to The Mardi Gras - Professor Longhair
3. Trouble With My Lover - Betty Harris
4. Got A Get My Baby Back Home - Tony Owens
5. Little Baby - Lee Dorsey
6. Two-Way-Poc-A-Way - The Dixie Cups
7. If I Were A Carpenter - Eldridge Holmes
8. Do It Fluid - The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
9. What You Want - Lee Dorsey
10. Jockey Ride - Explosions
11. We The People - Allen Toussain
12. Take Care of Your Homework - Chuck Carb
13. What’d I Do Wrong - Betty Harris
14. The Book - Eldridge Holmes
15. Fagged Out - Deacons
16. Gossip Gossip - Diamond Joe
17. Big Chief (Pt. 2) - Professor Longhair
18. Omar Khayyam