Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: Big Ol Box of New Orleans...Finally, a Celebration of the Mess that is New Orleans Music

Shout! Factory Set, Due October 5, Features Classic and Contemporary Sounds, Tastes, Scents, Culture, History and Travel Tips. Its a Wild Rideand Definitely Not Your Parents New Orleans Box!

LOS ANGELES, CA July 26, 2004 -- New Orleans music has been documented thoroughly on recording and in print but never like this. Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: Big Ol Box of New Orleans takes the music of the Big Easy outside the history museum and puts it back amidst the total experience of being there the hurricanes to go, the crawdad etoufethe voodoo rituals, the beads, the sultry Caribbean winds and mixes it up with four CDs worth of new and old Crescent City sounds. According to reissue executive producer Gary Stewart, Its one big mess, and we like it like that! Shout! Factory's resultant CD boxed set will arrive in stores on October 5th for the suggested retail price of $59.98.

The audio portion of Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: Big Ol Box of New Orleans takes the vibrancy of New Orleans music clear outside of academic chronological and mixes the originators and the progeny of New Orleans music. Featured are 85 songs by such artists as Dr. John, Professor Longhair, Irma Thomas, The Meters, Jellyroll Morton, Marcia Ball, Geno Delafose & French Rockin Boogie, Sonny Landreth, Little Richard, Ellis Marsalis, Henry Butler, Clarence Frogman Henry, Chris Kenner, Buckwheat Zydeco, Shirley & Lee, The Neville Brothers, The New Birth Brass Band, Dave Bartholomew and the Radiators. Compiled and annotated by KCSN-FM Down Home show host Chuck Taggart, a native, its an open-all-night rockin Nawlins dance party. Grab a hurricane in a go cup and roam the citys legendarily diverse and influential sounds.

But the total experience of Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: Big Ol Box of New Orleans just begins with the music. This big, fat, heavy package makes a wonderful addition to the top of the coffee table. The set features essays and sidebars by writer Mary Herczog, author of Frommers New Orleans, that defy what comes to mind when you think liner notes. Herczog takes you by the hand through the narrow streets of the Quarter, through the Garden District and up through Bayou St. John imparting the history alongside the colorful urban myths, while giving an insiders-eye view of citys great (and divey) bars and restaurants, and even an unpredictable Nine Random Reasons We Love New Orleans.

With Mardi Gras upon us in February and JazzFest and Ponderosa Stomp in April, there is no better gift for the New Orleans enthusiast (or would-be enthusiast) than Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: Big Ol Box of New Orleans. Load up your iPOD, take along the book and journey the citys mystical, musical and gastronomical crannies, and youre ready to fully appreciate the Western Worlds most culturally rich and unique city.

About Shout! Factory:
Shout! Factory is a multi-platform integrated entertainment company that was started by Richard Foos -- co-founder of Rhino Records, Bob Emmer former Warner Music Group and Rhino executive and Garson Foos former Rhino executive. It focuses on audio music catalog development and home video/DVD projects and television properties. Conceived as a broad-based retro pop culture entertainment label, Shout! Factory video and DVD projects range from live music and music documentary programs to offbeat special interest titles ranging from animation to sports content. Shout! Factory DVDs and CDs are distributed by Sony Music Entertainment.

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Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol Box Of New Orleans
                                                                                                                                 
Catalog Number: D4K 37441                             
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Price: $59.98

TRACK LISTING:

Disc One:

          1.     Galactic feat. Theryl deClouet Welcome To New Orleans
          2.     Kermit Ruffins Drop Me Off In New Orleans
          3.     Fats Domino Im Walkin
          4.     Dr. John Iko Iko
          5.     Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven Potato Head Blues
          6.     Lil Queenie & The Percolators My Darlin New Orleans
          7.     The Iguanas Para Donde Vas (Where Are You Going)
          8.     Anders Osbourne & Big Chief Monk Boudreaux Meet The Boyz On The Battlefront
          9.     Clarence Frogman Henry Aint Got No Home
     10.     Rebirth Brass Band Feel Like Funkin It Up
     11.     BeauSoleil Zydeco Gris-Gris
     12.     Ernie K-Doe Mother-In-Law
     13.     Marcia Ball Thats Enough Of That Stuff
     14.     The Radiators Confidential
     15.     The Meters Hey Pocky A-Way
     16.     Jelly Roll Morton & His New Orleans Jazzmen I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say
     17.     Paul Sanchez Foot Of Canal Street
     18.     Vernel Bagneris & the cast of One Mo Time Down In Honky Tonk Town
     19.     Huey (Piano) Smith & The Clowns Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu
     20.     Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen More Hipper
     21.     Johnny Adams Release Me
     22.     Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feet Warmers Preachin Blues
     23.     Clifton Chenier Jambalaya

Disc Two:

          1.     Leigh Harris Dog Days
          2.     Earl King No City Like New Orleans
          3.     Don Vappie & The Creole Jazz Serenaders SalDames, Bon Jour
          4.     Balfa Toujours Marshalls Club
          5.     Irma Thomas You Can Have My Husband
          6.     Galactic Go Go
          7.     The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars Not Too Eggy
          8.     Preservation Hall Jazz Band St. James Infirmary
          9.     Deacon John Moore Going Back To New Orleans
          10.     Buckwheat Zydeco Hot Tamale Baby
          11.     The Neville Brothers Fear, Hate, Envy, Jealousy
          12.     James Andrews Poop Aint Gotta Scuffle No More
          13.     The Hawketts Mardi Gras Mambo
          14.     George Lewis Ragtime Band Ice Cream
          15.     J. MonqueD No Doubt About It
          16.     The Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Danny Barker & Eddie Bo Dont You Feel My Leg
          17.     Boozoo Chavis Dog Hill
          18.     Zachary Richard Au Bord de Lac Bijou Au Bord de Lac Bijou
          19.     Tuba Fats Chosen Few Brass Band Mardi Gras In New Orleans

Disc Three:

          1.     Dave Bartholomew & His Orchestra Shrimp And Gumbo
          2.     Dr. Michael White St. Phillip Street Breakdown
          3.     Clarence Gatemouth Brown Going Back To Louisiana
          4.     Aaron Neville Tell It Like It Is
          5.     Coolbone The Saints
          6.     Geno Delafose & French Rockin Boogie Canaille (Youre Cute, But Youre Sneaky)
          7.     Al Johnson Carnival Time
          8.     Fredy Omar con su Banda La Negra Tomasa
          9.     Shirley & Lee Let The Good Times Roll
          10.     Tom McDermott & Evan Christopher The Broken Windmill
          11.     Champion Jack Dupree Way Down
          12.     Raymond MYles with The RAMS Hallelujah
          13.     Smiley Lewis I Hear You Knocking
          14.     Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys La Cr de Faim/Starvation 2-Step
          15.     The Red Stick Ramblers Main Street Blues
          16.     Frankie Ford Sea Cruise
          17.     Henry Butler Tee-Nah-Nah
          18.     The New Birth Brass Band Smoke That Fire
          19.     Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers Give Him Cornbread
          20.     Chris Kenner I Like It Like That, Part 1
          21.     James Booker Classified (Version Two)
          22.     Allen Toussaint Southern Nights

Disc Four:

          1.     Professor Longhair Tipitina
          2.     The Wild Magnolias Party
          3.     Ellis Marsalis Dr. Jazz
          4.     Troy Andrews Ooh Poo Pah Doo
          5.     Sonny Landreth South Of I-10
          6.     Benny Spellman Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette)
          7.     Charmaine Neville Band with Reggie Houston & Amasa Miller The Right Key But The Wrong Keyhole
          8.     Little Richard Rip It Up
          9.     Kid Orys Creole Jazz Band Royal Garden Blues
          10.     Anders Osborne Stoned, Drunk & Naked
          11.     Bruce Daigrepont Laissez Faire (Let It Be)
          12.     The New Orleans Jazz Vipers Digga-Digga-Do
          13.     Walter Wolfman Washington Tailspin
          14.     Lloyd Price Lawdy Miss Clawdy
          15.     Eddie Bo Havin Fun In New Orleans
          16.     Tim Laughlin King Of The Mardi Gras
          17.     Snooks Eaglin Red Beans
          18.     Mem Shannon & The Membership S.U.V.
          19.     The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band Tits Yeux Noirs (Little Black Eyes)
          20.     Pete Fountain & His Band Lazy River
          21.     Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?

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