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Professor Longhair 
485,275 plays (74,565 listeners)
Professor Longhair (nee Henry Roeland Byrd and aka Fess) (December 19, 1918 - January 30, 1980) was a legendary New Orleans blues musician. He was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana. He was noted for his unique piano style, which he described as "a combination of rumba, mambo, and Calypso", and his unusual, expressive voice, described once as "freak unique". He was called the Bach of Rock and Roll.
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Allen Toussaint
501,618 plays (57,622 listeners)
Allen Toussaint (born January 14, 1938) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer and one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
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Kermit Ruffins
114,778 plays (20,098 listeners)
Originally a founding member in the 1980's of New Orleans' popular Rebirth Brass Band, with whom he recorded seven lively albums and toured the world.
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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
359,600 plays (46,850 listeners)
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band are a New Orleans style brass band which plays R&B and Traditional New Orleans music.
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John Boutté
68,613 plays (11,821 listeners)
John Boutté is an American jazz singer based in New Orleans, Louisiana who has been active since the mid 1990s. He is known for diverse music style that goes beyond jazz to R&B, gospel, Latin, and blues. He is the younger brother to renown jazz and gospel singer Lillian Boutté.
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ReBirth Brass Band
173,464 plays (27,695 listeners)
The Rebirth Brass Band is a New Orleans brass band. The group was founded in 1983 by tuba player Philip Frazier, his brother Keith Frazier and trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, along with other musicians with them at the Joseph S. Clark Sr. High School in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans.
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James Booker
127,120 plays (19,915 listeners)
Troubled genius James Carroll Booker III first became known as a New Orleans soul R&B organist and later established a reputation as one of the most exciting, mercurial players in a long line of legendary piano professors. Booker and Professor Longhair are the soul of New Orleans expressing through their pianos the joy and pain of life in one of America's greatest but poorest cities.
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The Wild Magnolias
64,536 plays (16,030 listeners)
This information is copied from the Wild Magnolias web site http://www.wildmagnolias.net Hands down, New Orleans is the world's most musical metropolis. What's more, the Big Easy can also tout itself as the most exotic, exuberant city on the planet. These sensual delights converge and complement each other in the rich tradition of the Mardi Gras Indians.
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The Neville Brothers
361,859 plays (58,214 listeners)
The Neville Brothers are a unique American group formed in the latter 1970's by four siblings who had grown up on Valence St in Uptown New Orleans. Each brother had faced some hard life choices and taken an individual musical path with mixed success before eventually bonding & joining forces together to create a very successful touring and family recording act of their own.
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Lee Dorsey
472,962 plays (88,518 listeners)
Lee Dorsey (December 24, 1924 – December 2, 1986) was an American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s. Much of his work was produced by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing provided by the Meters. Between 1965 and 1969 Dorsey put seven songs in the US Hot 100 charts, the most successful of which was "Working in the Coal Mine" in 1966.
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