Walking To New Orleans George Benson

• 1 Nadine (Is It You) 03:53
• 2 Ain't That A Shame 03:49
• 3 Rockin' Chair 03:39
• 4 You Can't Catch Me 03:35
• 5 Havana Moon 04:54
• 6 I Hear You Knocking 03:45
• 7 Memphis, Tennessee 03:19
• 8 Walking To New Orleans 04:08
• 9 Blue Monday 03:03
• 10 How You've Changed 03:19
• Total Runtime 37:24

Info for Walking To New Orleans

George Benson gets back to Americana basics on Walking to New Orleans, the jazz guitar legend's double-barreled tribute to both piano-pounding hit machine Fats Domino and the original rock guitar hero and poet, Chuck Berry.

The album toggles between tracks written and/or recorded by Berry and Domino as though Benson were moderating a musical conversation between Missouri and Louisiana. It kicks off with a rock-solid rendition of Berry's 1964 post-incarceration story song "Nadine (Is It You?)," which Benson makes his own by scatting in unison with his guitar solo. Then a horn section pumps up Fats's 1951 R&B hit "Rockin' Chair" and his first R&B-pop crossover smash, "Ain't That a Shame," from 1955, with Benson's guitar standing in swingingly for the originals' sax solos. The Chuck Berry songbook is also represented on Walking to New Orleans by the good-timey "You Can't Catch Me," the sinuous "Havana Moon," the rollicking "Memphis, Tennessee," and the bluesy "How You've Changed." Fats Domino weighs in with the rollicking "I Hear You Knocking," "Blue Monday," and the album's iconic title track.

“I’m a great appreciator of the music made by both of those guys,” says Benson, who reanimates their genius with his signature soulful vocals and buttery solos. “Chuck Berry was a great showman and a great musician, and Fats Domino cut nothing but hit after hit after hit.”

George Benson, guitar
Greg Morrow, drums
Rob McNelley, guitar
Kevin McKendree, piano
Alison Prestwood, bass

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