James Booker's New Orleans piano


Ten years ago, I first posted about my favorite piano player of all time, the Crescent City's James Booker (1939-1983). Booker's hands were like "Spiders on the Keys," which is the name of his live album upon which you can find another smoking, drunken rendition of the above song, "Papa Was A Rascal," along with Eleanor Rigby, Tico Tico, Over the Rainbow, and a slew of other fantastically-chaotic tracks.