Help me with New Orleans themed songs

[alcibiades_mystery]

OK, so I'm making a little New Orleans CD for myself to help me cope, and I need help with New Orleans themed songs. I'm just not that up on the southern blues tradition or the zydeco tradition to know many songs from there, but any help is good. I'm gonna hit some of my favorites, but this is obviously a short list:

Do you Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans - Louis Armstrong version
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie version
Baby Please Don't Go - Van Morrison
Bloodletting - Concrete Blond
Basin Street Blues - Louis Prima version

You get the idea?

[KitchenWitch]

1. Crescent City - Lucinda Williams

[progmom]

2. if you just plug "new orleans" in on allmusic.com as the title...

...this is what you get:
New Orleans 350
Battle of New Orleans 150
City of New Orleans 151
Walking to New Orleans 102
New Orleans Stomp 57
New Orleans, LA. 6
New Orleans Blues 36
New Orleans Joys 34
In New Orleans 7
Back to New Orleans 16
New Orleans Bump 16
Boy from New Orleans 5
From L.A. To New Orleans 1
New Orleans '88 1
Oh! New Orleans 1
Up From New Orleans 2
Goin' to New Orleans 9
King of New Orleans 5
Lips from New Orleans 5
New Orleans Beat 5
Man from New Orleans 2
New New Orleans 1
New Orleans Rag 2
New Orleans Rap 3
Old & New (Orleans) 2
Old-New Orleans 2
Annie New Orleans 5
Blues for New Orleans 6
Going to New Orleans 9
New Orleans Shout 10
New Orleans Twist 6
New Orleans Woman 8
Away from New Orleans 1
Down to New Orleans 4
Home to New Orleans 1
Lady New Orleans 1
Love New Orleans 1
Maid of New Orleans 1
New Orleans (Fast) 1
New Orleans (Slow) 2
New Orleans 1951 1
New Orleans Baby 1
New Orleans by Nine 1
New Orleans Dawn 1
New Orleans Fuzz 1
New Orleans Hula 2
New Orleans Hulu 1
New Orleans Jail 3
New Orleans Jazz 1
New Orleans Jump 4
New Orleans Lady 1
New Orleans Rain 2
New Orleans Rock 1
New Orleans Song 2
New Orleans, Pt. 1 1
New Orleans, Pt. 2 1
Song of New Orleans 1
To Miss New Orleans 1
Trip to New Orleans 3
Went to New Orleans 2
Mardi Gras in New Orleans 90
New Orleans Shuffle 15
New Orleans Ladies 9
New Orleans Bound 1
New Orleans Dream 1
New Orleans Gumbo 1
New Orleans Knows 1
New Orleans Mambo 2
New Orleans March 1
New Orleans Music 3
New Orleans Opera 2
New Orleans Queen 1
New Orleans Shags 1
New Orleans Strut 4
New Orleans, 11 A.M. 1

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Yeah, I can do that

but i'd rather get personal feedback, yeah? notice it leaves out a couple of the songs that i picked because they don't include "new orleans" in the title?

[progmom]

14. ok. here's a few that hit me last week....

Donald Harrison - Big Chief
Louis Armstrong Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? Cubanismo Marie Laveaux
Dr. John I Walk on Guilded Splinters
James Booker Make a Better World
Louis Armstrong Basin Street Blues
Professor Longhair Junco Partner
Neville Brothers Wake Up
Donald Harrison Shallow Water
Wynton Marsalis New Orleans Bump
Kermit Ruffins When I Die (You Better 2nd Line)
Donald Harrison Big Chief

[KamaAina]

3. *A* little New Orleans CD??

Better get Mr. Burner ready for Vols. 2, 3,...

Blackwater - Doobie Bros.
Sheik of Arabi - Louis Armstrong. The Arabi in question is not in the ME but in hard-hit St. Bernard Parish.
Walkin' to New Orleans - Fats Domino
Mardi Gras Mambo - various artists over the years

more to come...

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Tom Waits - "I Wish I was In New Orleans"

Leadbelly "In New Orleans" (you probably know it as "House of the Rising Sun"...Nina Simone's version is pretty good, too)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

5. "Dixie Drug Store" by Grant Lee Buffalo

[MissMillie]

6. Robbie Robertson made an album (CD) called "Storyville"

a pretty good album, IMHO

[no name no slogan]

7. "Heart of the Night" by Poco

In the heart of the night
In the cool southern rain
There's a full moon in sight
Shining down on the Pontchartrain

And the river she rises
Like she used to do
She's so full of surprises
She reminds me of you
In the heart of the night

There's a nightbird singing
Right on through till the dawn
And the streets are still ringing
With people carrying on

It's been so long waiting
Just to be here again
Anticipating
All the time I could spend
In the heart of the night down in New Orleans
In the heart of the night down in New Orleans

And I trust in your love never falling down
And I trust in your love
Just like I do in this town never falling down

And I'm so glad to be back in New Orleans
Please don't wake me, don't shake me,
If this is only just a dream
It's the only place I can face that feels so right
Below that Dixie moon and loving you
In the Heart of the Night

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Yeah, it's cheeezy, but it's about NOLA.

[HEyHEY]

8. New Orleans is Sinking - The tragically hip

Bourbon blues on the street loose and complete
Under skies all smoky blue-green
I can Forksake the dixie dead shake
So we dance the sidewalk clean
My memory is muddy what's this river I'm in
New Orleans is sinking and I don't want to swim

Colonel Tom What's wrong? What's Going On
You can't tie yourself up for a deal
He said" Hey North you're south shut you big mouth
You gotta do what you feel is real."
Ain't got no picture postcards ain't go no souvenirs
My baby she don't know me when I'm thinking about thoes years

Pale as a light bulb hanging on a wire
Sucking up to someone just stoke the fire
Picking out the highlights of the scenery
Saw a little cloud looked a little like me

I had My hand in the river
My feet back up on the banks
Looked up to the lord above and said hey man thanks
Some time I fell so good I gotta scream
She says Gordie baby I know exactly what you mean
She said, she said I swear to god she said

My memory is muddy what's this river I'm in
New Orleans is sinking and I don't want to swim

[Zuni]

9. Baby Please Don't Go

was originally a country blues by Big Joe Williams, but Muddy Waters reworked it and made it a big hit in the early '50s with his band

[HEyHEY]

11. Van Morrison did it well too

[Zuni]

12. anything by Professor Longhair or Fats Domino

and especially Zydeco Music---a kind of Louisiana R and B with liberal use of accordions

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. I know

I just like the Van Morrison version

[redqueen]

15. Dire Straits - Planet of New Orleans

[hobo_baggins]

16. Take Me To The Mardi Gras - Paul Simon

C'mon take me to the Mardi Gras
Where the people sing and play
Where the dancing is elite
And there's music in the street
Both night and day

Hurry take me to the Mardi Gras
In the city of my dreams
You can legalize your lows
You can wear your summer clothes
In the New Orleans

And I will lay my burden down
Rest my head upon that shore
And when I wear that starry crown
I won't be wanting anymore

Take your burdens to the Mardi Gras
Let the music wash your soul
You can mingle in the street
You can jingle to the beat of the jelly roll
Tumba, tumba, tumba, Mardi Gras
Tumba, tumba, tumba, day