List of songs about New Orleans explained
This is a list of songs set in or about New Orleans, Louisiana.
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- "I Am A New Orleans' Genevieve" by Samsun
- "I Didn't Find A Saint (In New Orleans)" by Country Bill White & Dawn Glass
- "I Got A Treme Woman" by Kermit Ruffins
- "I Hope You're Comin' Back to New Orleans" by New Orleans Jazz Vipers
- "I Just Can't Get (New Orleans Off My Mind)" by Fats Domino
- "I Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans" by Vince Vance and the Valiants
- "I Know You Mardi Gras" by Wild Magnolias
- "I Love Louisiana" by Rosie Ledet
- "I Love New Orleans" by Ronnie Milsap
- "I Love To Wake Up In New Orleans" by Larry John McNally
- "I Love You Goodbye" by Thomas Dolby
- "I Might Be Awhile In New Orleans" by Johnny Russell
- "I Thought I Heard New Orleans Say" by Dr. John
- "I Wanna Be the Big Chief" by Christopher Marsceill aka Reverend Chris
- "I Wanna Die in New Orleans" by DiNOLA
- "I Went To The Mardi Gras" by Snooks Eaglin
- "I Wish I Was in New Orleans" by Tom Waits
- "I'd Rather Be In New Orleans" by The Flying Neutrinos
- "If I Were Brave" by Shawn Colvin
- "If New Orleans Is Beat" by The Tragically Hip
- "Iko Iko" by The Dixie Cups, 1965
- "I'm Cousin Joe From New Orleans" by Cousin Joe
- "I'm Going Back To Louisiana" Bruce Channel
- "I'm Going To New Orleans" by Charles Mann
- "I'm Saving Up The Means To Get To New Orleans" by Al Jolson
- "I'm So New Orleans" by Kermit Ruffins
- "In The Clear" by Foo Fighters
- "In Color" by Jamey Johnson
- "In Good Old New Orleans" by Murphy Campo And The Jazz Saints
- "In New Orleans" by Lead Belly
- "In The Old French Quarter Of New Orleans by Maxine Daniels
- "Indian Red", traditional, first recorded by Danny Barker
- "The Irish Went Down To New Orleans" by Charlie Spaniels Band
- "It's A New Orleans Thing" by Allen Toussaint
- "It's Christmas In Nu Awlins" by Gary U.S. Bonds "It's Mardi Gras" by Desire
- "I've Got the Blues for Rampart Street" (jazz tune)
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- "Jackson Square" by Mason Jennings
- "Jambalaya" by Hank Williams
- "Jambalaya" by Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lew
- "Jammin' To New Orleans" by Risky Business
- "Jazz At Lu Charlie's" by Giorgio Gaslini Quartet
- "Jazz Music" by Gang Starr (this is a different song than the more famous "Jazz Thing")
- "Jazz Thing" by Gang Starr
- "Jazzfest" by Paul Soniat
- "Je T'Aime N'Orleans" by Big Boy Pete (aka as Peter Miller (musician))
- "Jesus in New Orleans" by Over the Rhine
- "Jock-a-mo" by Sugar Boy Crawford
- "Jolie Blon" by Zachary Richard
- "Jump City" by Willy DeVille
- "Just Off Decatur Street" by Willy DeVille
- "Just Outside New Orleans" by Earl Stanley & The Stereos
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- "Magnolia Soul" by Ozomatli
- "Magnolia Street Parade" by Bob Crosby
- "Mahogany Hall Stomp" by Louis Armstrong
- "Man From New Orleans" by Swampwater
- "Maple Leaf Strutt" by Joe Krown, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Russell Batiste Jr.
- "Mardi Gras" by Dave "Baby" Cortez
- "Mardi Gras" by David Whitfield
- "Mardi Gras" by Doug Kershaw
- "Mardi Gras" by Flambeaux
- "Mardi Gras" by Gino Vannelli
- "Mardi Gras" by Hugh Martin
- "Mardi Gras" by Ike Quebec
- "Mardi Gras" by Jeff Kashiwa
- "Mardi Gras" by Jessie Hill
- "Mardi Gras" by John Klemmer
- "Mardi Gras", from Mardi Gras (1958 film)
- "Mardi Gras" by Pat Martino
- "Mardi Gras" by Scream
- "Mardi Gras" by Spyro Gyra
- "The Mardi Gras" by Victor Herbert
- "Mardi Gras" by Victor Silvester
- "Mardi Gras And Rosetta Roses" by Casablanca
- "Mardi Gras At Midnight" by A Tribe Called Quest
- "Mardi Gras Beads" by Parquet Courts
- "Mardi Gras (Breeze From The River)" by Howard Blaikley "Mardi Gras Carnival" by Margie Perez
- "Mardi Gras Cha" by Rico Henderson and his Orchestra
- "Mardi Gras Day" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
- "Mardi Gras, Down In New Orleans It's Carnival (Mardi Gras Rap)" by The Jones & Taylor Experience
- "Mardi Gras Gumbo" by Kenny 'Blue' Ray
- "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" by Earl King
- "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" by Professor Longhair
- "Mardi Gras In The City" by Earl King
- "Mardi Gras (Indian Dance)" by Paul Weston
- "Mardi Gras Jig" by Dewey Balfa, Tony Balfa, Tracy Schwarz, Peter Schwarz (Tracy Schwarz of Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz)
- "Mardi Gras Madness" by Barney Bigard
- "Mardi Gras Mambo" by The Hawketts
- "Mardi Gras Mambo" by The Meters
- "The Mardi Gras March" by Louis Armstrong
- "Mardi Gras Parade" by Jerry Colonna
- "Mardi Gras Parade" by New Orleans Creole Jazz Band featuring Thomas Jefferson (musician)
- "Mardi Gras Party" by Carl Marshall
- "Mardi Gras Strut" by Al Johnson
- "Mardi Gras Time" by Bayou Renegades
- "Mardi Gras Time" by Timmy Dusenbery
- "Mardi Gras Twist" by Doris Matte
- "The Mardi Gras Walking Club" by Pete Fountain
- "Mardi Gras Waltz" by Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Loeb
- "Mardi Gras Waltz" by Joe Ely
- "Matinee Hour In New Orleans" by Three Clouds
- "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin
- "Meet the Boys (on the Battlefront)" by The Wild Tchoupitoulas
- "Meet Me On Frenchmen Street" by Shamarr Allen
- "Meet Me On The Levee" by Chris Barber
- "The Mess Inside" by The Mountain Goats
- "A Message To Martha" Adam Faith
- "Message to Michael" by Dionne Warwick
- "Mid-City Baby" by The New Orleans Bingo! Show
- "Midnight In New Orleans" by Earl Hines
- "Milenberg Joys" by Jelly Roll Morton
- "Mississippi Pearl" by The Stray Birds
- "Monday Night In New Orleans" by Kermit Ruffins
- "Moon over Bourbon Street" by Sting
- "Move It" by Cliff Richard with Brian May & Brian Bennett
- "Move to Louisiana" by John Mooney
- "Mr. Bojangles" by Jerry Jeff Walker, made popular by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- "Mr. Mardi Gras" by Allen Toussaint
- "Mr. Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan
- "Mrs. Orleans" by Trombone Shorty ft. Kid Rock, from For True, 2011
- "Muk Tuk Mardi Gras Two Step" by Frankie Rodgers & the Rodgers Brothers
- "Murder In New Orleans" by Voice Of The Wetlands All-Stars (featuring Cyril Neville)
- "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy" by Dolly Parton
- "My Darlin' New Orleans" by L'il Queenie
- "My Father's Gun" by Elton John
- "My Hometown New Orleans" by Paul Soniat
- "My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans" by Frank Luther "My New Orleans" by Al Fats Edwards
- "My NOLA" by Harry Connick, Jr.
- "My People Need A Second Line" by Dr. John
- "My Sanctuary" by Marc Cohn
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- "N.O. Blues" by Stan Tracey
- "N.O.L.A. My Home" by Willie West
- "N.O. Stylee" by Skull Duggery
- "N.O.T. Aka N’Awlins Thang" by Raphael Wressnig's Organic Trio
- "N'Awlin Nights" by Kim Mitchell
- "N'awlins" by The Zawinul Syndicate
- "N'awlins" by Bobby Stagg
- "The New Battle of New Orleans" by Ray Stevens
- "New Highway 51" by Tommy McClennan
- "New Mardi Gras Dance" by Aldus Roger and the Lafayette Playboys
- "New Orleans" by Al Prince
- "New Orleans" by Beautiful Creatures
- "New Orleans" by Bill Pritchard
- "NEW ORLEANS" by Brockhampton (band)
- "New Orleans" by Cash McCall
- "New Orleans" by Cowboy Mouth
- "New Orleans" by Curtis Mayfield
- "New Orleans" by David Hess
- "New Orleans" by Elvis Presley
- "New Orleans" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- "New Orleans" by The Essex Green
- "New Orleans" by Gary U.S. Bonds, The Grateful Dead, The Radiators, The Blues Brothers, The Stampeders, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Neil Diamond, Hank Williams Jr., and others
- "New Orleans" by Howard Blaikley
- "New Orleans" by Husky
- "New Orleans" by Idris Muhammad
- "New Orleans" (from Is Everybody Happy? (1929 film))
- "New Orleans" by John Stewart
- "New Orleans" by Kid Rock
- "New Orleans" by King Curtis
- "New Orleans" by Les Humphries
- "New Orleans" by Mamie Smith
- "New Orleans" by The New Orleans Bingo! Show
- "New Orleans" by Paris
- "New Orleans" by The Pazant Brothers and the Beaufort Express
- "New Orleans" by Peshay
- "New Orleans" by Rancid
- "New Orleans" by Sarah McCoy
- "New Orleans" by St Joe Run
- "New Orleans" by Silver Jews
- "New Orleans" by Stevie Nicks
- "New Orleans" by Toby Keith
- "New Orleans" by Trampled by Turtles
- "New Orleans" by Truckers
- "New Orleans" by Your Heart Breaks
- "New Orleans 2am" by The Khans
- "New Orleans And A Rusty Old Horn" by Sonny Knight
- "New Orleans Ain't The Same" by Fats Domino
- "New Orleans Beat" by The Cannonballs
- "New Orleans Beat" by Jimmy McCracklin
- "New Orleans Beat" by Steve Riley
- "New Orleans Biguine" by Pierre Dalmon
- "New Orleans Blue" by Jerry Foster
- "New Orleans Blues" by Blue Lu Barker
- "New Orleans Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton
- "New Orleans Blues" by Johnny De Droit and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
- "New Orleans Blues" by Willie Mabon
- "New Orleans Bump" by Jelly Roll Morton and later by Wynton Marsalis
- "New Orleans Calling" by Newark Boys Chorus, Rutgers Jazz Ensemble
- "New Orleans Cannon Ball" by George Garabedian Players
- "New Orleans Cha-Cha" by Jerry Colonna
- "The New Orleans Connection" by Michael "Bami" Rose
- "New Orleans Cookin'" by Cyril Neville
- "New Orleans Drag" by Sammy Price and his Rompin' Stompers
- "New Orleans Forever" from Jérôme Savary's 'Looking for Josephine'
- "New Orleans Function" by Louis Armstrong
- "New Orleans Funeral" by Hazy Osterwald
- "New Orleans Girl" by Winston Hall and Donna Chance
- "New Orleans Gumbo" by Idris Muhammad
- "New Orleans (The Home Of The Bluzz)" by Eddie Zip And Fast Company
- "New Orleans Hop" by Monte Easter
- "New Orleans In The Rain" by Johnny Williams
- "New Orleans Is a Dying Whore" by Down
- "New Orleans Is A Mighty Good Town" by Eddy Raven
- "New Orleans Is Coming Back" David Batiste & The Gladiators
- "New Orleans Is My Home" by The Jingle Janglers
- "New Orleans Is Sinking" by The Tragically Hip
- "New Orleans is the New Vietnam" by Eyehategod
- "New Orleans Jail" by Rod Bernard
- "New Orleans Jeunesse Dorèe" from Naughty Marietta
- "New Orleans Joys" by Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band
- "New Orleans Ladies" by Le Roux
- "New Orleans Lady" by James Rivers
- "New Orleans, Louisiana" by Dr. John and Chris Barber
- "New Orleans Low Down" by Duke Ellington
- "New Orleans Mambo" by James Rivers Quartet
- "New Orleans (Mardi Gras)" by Southwind
- "New Orleans Moan" by Roselyn Lionhart (of duo David and Roselyn)
- "New Orleans Music" by Rebirth Brass Band
- "New Orleans Music" by Tony Wilson (a member of Hot Chocolate)
- "New Orleans (My Home Town)" by Kermit Ruffins
- "New Orleans, New Orleans" by Bintangs
- "New Orleans Parade" by Chris Barber
- "New Orleans Poon" (from Prettybelle)
- "New Orleans Post Parade" by Scatman Crothers
- "New Orleans Presidential Shit" by Lil Wayne
- "New Orleans Rag" by Willie 'The Rock' Knox
- "New Orleans, RIP" by Meriwether
- "New Orleans Rock" by The 5.6.7.8's
- "New Orleans Second Line" by Olympia Brass Band
- "New Orleans Shuffle" by Johnny Otis
- "New Orleans Song" by La Croix
- "New Orleans Stomp" by Louis Armstrong
- "New Orleans Street March" by Chris Farlowe, Brian Auger and Pete York
- "New Orleans Strut" by Cannonball Adderley
- "A New Orleans Suite" by Sheba Sound
- "New Orleans Twist" by Blazer Boy
- "New Orleans When It Rains" by Razzy Bailey
- "New Orleans Wiggle" by Piron's New Orleans Orchestra
- "New Orleans Wins the War" by Randy Newman
- "New Orleans Woman" by Dirty Blues Band (a band formed by Rod Piazza)
- "New Orleans Woman" by Dorsey Burnette
- "New Orleans Woman" by Elmer Tippe
- "New York To New Orleans" by Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys
- "Night Train to New Orleans" by Wayne Toups
- "Ninth Ward Blues" by King James & The Special Men
- "Ninth Ward Swing" by William Clarke And The NightOwls
- "No City Like New Orleans" by Earl King
- "Nola" by Dayna Kurtz
- "Norleans" by Lonnie Smith
- "North Rampart Street March (On Parade)" by Sharkey Bonano
- Nothing Turned to Something by Breece Matarazzo
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- "Quarter Rat" by Christopher Marsceill aka Reverend Chris
- "Queen of New Orleans" by Earl Thomas Conley
- "Queen of New Orleans" by Jon Bon Jovi
- "Queen of the Mardi Gras" by Marty Wyte
- "Queen of the Mardi Gras" by Tony Christie
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- "Year Down In New Orleans" by Nanci Griffith
- "Yes I Love Her (New Orleans)" by Ronni Kole
- "You Never Can Tell" by Chuck Berry
- "Your Boots In New Orleans" by Salon Music
- "You've Got to be Crazy to Live in This Town" by Alex McMurray
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Notes and References
- News: . Ed Bernet: Visionary With Roots In Many Fields . August 19, 1972 . November 8, 2010.
- Web site: Everyday Companion Online - Lyrics - Bayou Lena. Everydaycompanion.com. 2 September 2018.
- Web site: Everyday Companion Online - Lyrics - Gradle. Everydaycompanion.com. 2 September 2018.