Huey 'Piano' Smith, New Orleans Rock 'n' Roll Cornerstone, Dies at 89
With songs like “Don’t You Just Know It,” “Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” and “Sea Cruise,” he put a firm backbeat behind joyful nonsense.
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Jon Cleary, So Swell (Newvelle Records) - OffBeat Magazine
OffBeat Magazine Cleary is the outlier in this group, an artist in his prime with a recent Grammy and presumably the opportunity to record for the major label of his choice. It’s interesting that he agreed to be part of this collection because he certainly won’t sell as many albums in this format as he would as a stand-alone album with big league distribution. I suspect he was honored to be included in the lineup, being a lifelong fan of New Orleans music who came to New Orleans as an adult to learn how to play it and has mastered the idiom from the inside out. On
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