Ain't that shame (live) - FAST DOMINO

Jazz Fest is fast approaching, April 28-30 and May 5-7, and will coincide with the publication of Da Capo’s forthcoming biography of Fats Domino, the living symbol of New Orleans R & B (aka, rock 'n' roll) and the festival’s headliner. Check out the festival poster, which features a wonderful rendering of Domino.

Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll is the first ever biography of Antoine "Fats" Domino, a vivid, masterful recreation of the music scene in New Orleans and the rise of rhythm & blues at the birth of rock 'n' roll, generously illustrated with over 75 rare years.

Antoine "Fats" Domino was the primary black rock 'n' roll figure of the 1950s, far more popular than Chuck Berry or Little Richard and second in record sales only to Elvis Presley. After years as a rhythm & blues icon, Domino endeared himself to virtually everyone with his thick, Creole-accented vocals on songs like Blueberry Hill, Ain’t That a Shame, I’m Walkin’, and his impassioned tribute to his hometown, Walking to New Orleans. Though he would later be dismissed as "harmless" by music writers blind to the brilliance of his subversion, Domino was at the forefront of a revolution that dovetailed with the civil rights movement and fundamentally changed America musically and socially, as his uniquely New Orleans-style "big beat diplomacy" commanded listeners to shake themselves both physically and psychically.

For 20 years, music critic and historian Rick Coleman has immersed himself in this subject, tracing the real roots of rock back to New Orleans and rhythm & blues, and to one man in particular, Antoine "Fats" Domino, a reclusive legend who, until Hurricane Katrina, had lived in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward his entire life.

Through documents and extensive interviews with many of Domino's band members and associates, early rhythm & blues and rock ‘n’ roll legends (among them Dick Clark, Lloyd Price, the Clovers, Ruth Brown, Charles Brown, and members of Buddy Holly's group, the Crickets), and, most importantly, exclusive interviews with Domino himself, Coleman reconstructs the fascinating music scene of the 1950s, at the center of which was a musician who, while rearranging popular music, also helped integrate America.

Blue Monday tells a dramatic, sweeping story of tragedy, survival, and triumph—from the first arrival of slave ships in New Orleans to the apocalypse of Hurricane Katrina; from Domino's myriad tours enduring harsh segregation, rock 'n' roll riots, and deaths of many band members to the day he stood up a president; from the countless unsung heroes of rhythm & blues to their vindication in the world-shaking conquest of rock 'n' roll. Groundbreaking and scrupulously researched, Blue Monday is the definitive story of Fats Domino and the "forgotten" history of rock 'n' roll.

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