Eddie 'Reverend Tallhead' Baytos & The Nervis Brothers - Take Some Mambo Time (1991)

A little funk, a little Zydeco, and a whole lotta fun for your Saturday. Eddie Baytos (aka The Reverend Tallhead) is a Louisiana renaissance man; an accomplished musician on multiple instruments, an accomplished choreographer, and a performance coach for both actors and musicians. I remember asking Zigaboo some years back about this album and he recalled that Eddie had a large place 'out in the country somewhere' where he hosted everyone for a weekend of eating, drinking and music making that eventually produced this album. Why, you may ask, is his nickname Reverend Tallhead? Take a look at the photo below, Eddie is second from the left.

Albert King - New Orleans Heat

Not your normal Albert King album with the fiery guitar licks and all that, there are plenty of those albums to choose from. Here Albert came down to New Orleans and received the full Sea-Saint Toussaint / Quezergue treatment with horns and back-up singers and such. The music focuses on King as a singer and sets him up with some Chitlins Circuit type vehicles that he has some fun with.

Albert King - New Orleans Heat

Tomato Records 1978

1. Get Out Of My Life Woman
2. Born Under A Bad Sign
3. The Feeling
4. We All Wanna Boogie
5. The Very Thought Of You
6. I Got The Blues
7. I Get Evil
8. Angel Of Mercy
9. Flat Tire

*The players on New Orleans Heat (Note: the horn section is unlisted but it almost certainly would have included Gary Brown and Clyde Kerr):

Albert King – vocal, electric guitar
Leo Nocentelli – electric guitar
Allen R. Toussaint – acoustic piano, 88 RMI Echoplex
Wardell Quezergue – electric piano
Robert Dabon – electric piano, RMI
George Porter, Jr. – bass
Charles Williams, June Gardner, Leroy Breaux – drums
Kenneth Williams - percussion 

Now I ain't saying this is Albert's best album or anything silly like that but it is some good fun. The session was also the last recording of the great New Orleans drummer Charles 'Hungry" Williams who became The Man when Earl Palmer went to L.A. This is my LP rip from my perfect copy.