Episode 5: Mardi Gras Trick Bag podcast

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Happy Mardi Gras! On this edition of Trick Bag, we'll get a taste of classic New Orleans Mardi Gras music. Most of these songs received very little to no attention outside of New Orleans, but in the city, they're considered perennial anthems of Carnival season. If you're from New Orleans, you should have a blast hearing the stories behind the Mardi Gras classics you've been listening to all your life. If you're not from the city and these songs are new to you, you're sure to enjoy this exciting musical taste of Mardi Gras in New Orleans!

Songs played in this episode:

Al Johnson - Carnival Time
Huey & Curley - At the Mardi Gras
Sugar Boy (Crawford) & his Cane Cutters - Jock-A-Mo
Bill Sinigal & the Skyliners - Second Line (Part 1)
Dave Bartholomew - Carnival Day
The Fabulettes - Oh, the Mardi Gras
Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras
Ray Brackens - Come On, It's Carnival
Joe Lutcher - Mardi Gras
Danny Barker & his Creole Cats - My Indian Red
The Hawketts - Mardi Gras Mambo
Sammy Harris - King Zulu
The Dixie Cups - Iko Iko (acapella version)
Huey & Curley - The Second Line
Jack Dupree - Yellow Pocahontas
Jessie Hill - Mardi Gras
Eskew Reeder - Mardi Gras In New Orleans (rehearsal recording)

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