This jam is from a 1986 tribute to Fats Domino, recorded at the Storyville nightclub in N’awlins. Paul Shaffer assembled a cast of guest artists that include, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ron Wood. This video has been in circulation for quite some time, so you may have seen it before. Stuff like this, however, never goes out of style. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go overdose on piano music . . .

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When my sometimes writing partner, Ted Perlman, presented me with this title and the track to go with it, I thought, “I don’t want to write a song about a whore house.”

First of all, I’ve never been to a whore house and I didn’t want to write about a subject outside the scope of my experience. The very best song about a whore house, “House of the Rising Sun, ” was written years and years ago, and had pretty much locked up the song-about-whore-houses genre for all eternity. Read More