![]() ![]() While the city’s most celebrated artists-Armstrong, Prima, Toussaint, Longhair, Irma Thomas, Dr. Many of New Orleans’ landmark artists have also picked their personal favorite local songs. Each entry has a capsule history that sheds new light on these classic songs, including fresh interviews with the artists as well as nuggets from OffBeat ’s extensive archive. The 300 entries (and then some) stretch chronologically from “Bamboula” (Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1848) to “Justice” (Dumpstaphunk, 2017), and include everything in between: early jazz and its offshoots, the advent of blues and the rock ‘n’ roll it spawned the ‘60s heyday of New Orleans rhythm and blues and the birth of funk later that decade.Īll the riches of the city’s current scene-brass bands, bounce, modern jazz, rock and funk, singer-songwriters-are represented as well. In its first book, OffBeat Magazine’s 300 Songs for 300 Years lists and explains why and how these songs shaped the city’s musical history and changed the face of American music. From “Down by the Riverside” to “Hey Pocky Way” and beyond, New Orleans has a long history of iconic songs. ![]()
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