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Dear Louis

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2001
Track listing: Potato Head Blues, Hello, Dolly, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (You Rascal You), Tight Like This, Interlude, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Dear Louis, Blues in the Night, The Peanut Vendor, Mack the Knife, Tiger Rag, I'll Never Be the Same, West End Blues.

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Nicholas Payton: Dear Louis

Read "Dear Louis" reviewed by John Sharpe


The problem with tribute albums is that if you present a slavish recreation of an artist's style, you'll be criticized and if you try to put “old wine in new bottles," critics will say you're not being true to the spirit of the originals. Classic catch-22, right? Regardless, for his tribute to legendary, fellow New Orleans ...

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Nicholas Payton: Dear Louis

Read "Dear Louis" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


At the risk of stating the obvious, the best tribute albums involve musicians with their own personalities capable of interpreting the material in such a way as to bring something new and fresh to the table. That is exactly what Nicholas Payton does with Dear Louis. And things could have come out quite to the contrary ...

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Article: Album Review

Nicholas Payton: Dear Louis

Read "Dear Louis" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


At the risk of stating the obvious, the best tribute albums involve musicians with their own personalities capable of interpreting the material in such a way as to bring something new and fresh to the table. That is exactly what Nicholas Payton does with Dear Louis. And things could have come out quite to the contrary ...


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