Rounder readies four-disc New Orleans comp.

A label founded in 1970 on traditional music of the American South, Rounder Records is set to release a four-disc compilation of its Big Easy-based catalogue titled City of Dreams: A Collection of New Orleans Music in October. The eclectic set, which includes tracks from Chuck Carbo, Irma Thomas, Professor Longhair and Art Neville, is divided into categories of brass bands, rhythm & blues, piano crackerjacks and more. According to the Rounder website, it’s only $20, which sounds like a steal for something barely shy of a box set.

City of Dreams track listing:

Disc One: Big Easy Blues
1. Al Johnson - “Carnival Time”
2. Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas, and Tracy Nelson - “Sing It”
3. Chuck Carbo - “Drawers Trouble”
4. Johnny Adams - “Just Because”
5. Irma Thomas - “Don’t Mess With My Man”
6. Eddie Bo - “Check Mr. Popeye”
7. Joe Jones - “You Talk Too Much”
8. Marcia Ball “Big Shot”
9. Davell Crawford “I Bowed on My Knees”
10. Ramsey McLean & the Survivors with Charmaine Neville - “Drink Jax Beer”
11. Ruth Brown - “Go On Fool”
12. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - “Dollar Got the Blues”

Disc Two: Street Beat
1. ReBirth Brass Band - “Feel Like Funkin’ It Up”
2. Monk Boudreaux and the Golden Eagles - “Sew, Sew, Sew”
3. Professor Longhair - “Cuttin’ Out”
4. Bo Dollis and Monk Boudreaux with ReBirth Brass Band - “Shoo-Fly”
5. New Orleans Nightcrawlers - “Royal Flush”
6. Dirty Dozen Brass Band - “It Ain’t What You Think”
7. All That - “T. Chapman”
8. Dejan’s Olympia Brass Band - “No It Ain’t My Fault”
9. Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias - “Golden Crown”
10. Chosen Few Brass Band - “St. Louis Blues”
11. Alvin “Red” Tyler - “If My Shoes Hold Out”
12. ReBirth Brass Band - “Just a Little While to Stay Here”

Disc Three: Funky New Orleans
1. Walter “Wolfman” Washington - “You Can Stay But The Noise Must Go”
2. Theryl Houseman de’Clouet - “Ain’t No Yachts in the Ghetto”
3. George Porter, Jr. of the Meters - “Rough Spots”
4. All That - “Flow On”
5. Ed Frank Quintet - “A Corn for Crip”
6. Bo Dollis & Willie Tee with Dr. John - “Keeper Of The Crown”
7. Johnny Adams - “Body and Fender Man”
8. New Orleans Saxophone Ensemble - “Gemini Rising”
9. Irma Thomas - “Sweet Touch of Love”
10. Solomon Burke - “Here We Go Again”
11. Walter “Wolfman” Washington - “Funk Yard”
12. Davell Crawford - “House That Jack Built”

Disc Four: Ivory Emperors
1. Eddie Bo - “Hard Times”
2. James Booker - “Classified”
3. Professor Longhair - “Every Day, Every Night”
4. David Torkanowksy - “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most”
5. Tuts Washington - “Tee Nah Nah”
6. Willie Tee - “On the Q-Tee”
7. Davell Crawford - “Gumbo Piano”
8. James Booker - “All By Myself”
9. Art Neville - “My Children”
10. Champion Jack Dupree - “I Don’t Know”
11. Professor Longhair - “Go to the Mardi Gras”
12. Tuts Washington - “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans”