Walking To New Orleans (yellow vinyl)

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George Benson gets back to Americana basics on Walking to New Orleans, the jazz guitar legends double-barreled tribute to both piano-pounding hit machine Fats Domino and the original rock guitar hero and poet, Chuck Berry. Walking To New Orleans is out on April 26, 2019 on Mascot Label Group/Provogue Records. The album toggles between tracks written and/or recorded by Berry and Domino as though Benson were moderating a musical conversation between Missouri and Louisiana. It kicks off with a rock-solid rendition of Berrys 1964 post-incarceration story song Nadine (Is It You?), which Benson makes his own by scatting in unison with his guitar solo. Then a horn section pumps up Fatss 1951 R&B hit Rockin Chair and his first R&B-pop crossover smash, Aint That a Shame, from 1955, with Bensons guitar standing in swingingly for the originals sax solos. The Chuck Berry songbook is also represented on Walking to New Orleans by the good-timey You Cant Catch Me, the sinuous Havana Moon, the rollicking Memphis, Tennessee, and the bluesy How Youve Changed. Fats Domino weighs in with the rollicking I Hear You Knocking, Blue Monday, and the albums iconic title track.