It’s Carnival season in New Orleans and we’re celebrating every single day til Ash Wednesday rears it’s ugly head on February 26th.

Huey “Piano” Smith was born on this day in the Lower Garden District neighborhood of New Orleans back in 1934.

By the time he was 8 years old he’d already written his first song “Robertson Street Boogie” named after the street he grew up on.

Smith should’ve been a national superstar but had the screws put to him by the moguls in the business til he called off his touring life as a musician in 1958; but not before he dropped “Don’t You Just Know It” which cracked the Billboard top 10.

This is prime Carnival music from one of the legends of New Orleans piano.

Put on “Ya Heard Me” by Don Flamingo this afternoon. I can’t believe this cat’s been in the game for 25 years. He gets heavy play in our 9th Ward neighborhood.

Connie Curtis (Pee Wee) Crayton was born in Liberty Hill, Texas on December 18th 1914.

He passed on June 25th in 1985.

Check out Pee Wee’s hot licks via his custom Strat on this remake of the Dave Bartholomew classic (Country Boy.)

We’re listening to Don’t Leave Me Baby by Lowell Fulson and wishing we had a pirate radio station so we could broadcast this cut to the rest of New Orleans 9th Ward. This shellac 10″ dropped in 1953 on the Aladdin label, and was recorded at J&M Studio up on Rampart Street in New Orleans

Put on 3 x 7 = 21 by Jewel King today. If you were hepping out to local acts in New Orleans in the mid-20th century you may have caught Miss King blowing the doors off Club Desire, right up the street from where the Scrumptious crew have put down stakes in the 9th Ward.

Dave Bartholomew wrote this jumper.

If you spend anytime at all on the New Orleans second lines you’ve heard plenty SupahBadd blasting off rider’s floats. This girl is all over the place playing parties, clubs, barrooms, lounges…you name it.

She’s the hottest thing to come out of Kenner since Lloyd Price.

Put on “I’m From New Orleans” by M.A.Q this afternoon. It’s going to be interesting to see who out of the new school of southeast Louisiana rappers is going to break out nationally. It feels like it’s been a minute since we’ve had one.

We’re listening to Slim Saunder’s timeless Carnival cut “Let’s Have Some Fun” this morning in New Orleans 9th Ward. The season is not quite in full swing just yet but we’re starting the ramp up.