Mercury New Orleans Sessions (CD)

2-CD-Album DigiPac (6-plated) with 70-page booklet, 47 tracks, playing time approx. 126 minutesNew Orleans is still in everyone's hearts and minds?not least for the music it contributed to the world. The beginning of New Orleans R&B is chronicled in an astonishing new Bear Family compilation!It features early and great performances by crescent city legend Professor Longhair!Most of the recordings new to CD! Some have never been available since the early 1950s!Back in 1989, we issued a double LP, 'Mercury Records--The New Orleans Sessions, 1950. ' Containing early and great (not to mention some unissued) recordings by Professor Longhair, Alma Mondy, and other Crescent City legends, it was a definitive statement of New Orleans R&B at its inception. We uncovered the original acetates at Mercury Records' vault, and painstakingly restored them, thereby re-creating one of the great field trips in record business history on two LPs!Since CDs were introduced, we've had requests to reis