This CD reissue combines two long-out-of-print LPs from the Southbound label: "Dreaming Down The River To New Orleans" and "Shades Of New Orleans." It features Thomas Jefferson, Jim Robinson, Frog Joseph, Raymond Burke, Louis Cottrell, Sam Dutrey, Stanley Mendelson (who just passed away), Lester Santiago, Joe Coprano, Placide and Jerry Adams, Paul Barbarin, Monk Hazel, and Sister Elizabeth Eustis and her choir.