Every song on this album is a Tom Hook original, with the exception of the classic Louis Jordan number, “Early In the Morning”. Recorded at Ultrsonic Studios in New Orleans in 2004, and mixed and mastered by Grammy award winning engineer Steve Reynolds.

The “Black Dogs” are:
Tom Hook – Keyboards and vocals
Eddie Metz, Jr. – Drums and percussion
Davy Jones – cornet
Bobby Durham – guitar, banjo
Terry Myers – reeds
Pat Gullotta – trombone
Matt Perrine – Sousaphone and bass

1. Mama Man
2. Early In the Mornin’
3. Hellhound Callin’ My Name
4. Musicbiznessman
5. Straight
6. Waitin’ For the Floats to Arrive
7. Back To Beale Street
8. Nobody’s There
9. Hangin’ at he Big Bamboo
10. Please
11. KC Boogie

This album is composed of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues classics with the addition of a couple of terrific ballads by Randy Newman and Tom Waits. Recorded at Ultrasonic Studios in New Orleans in 2001, and mixed and mastered by Grammy award winning engineer Steve Reynolds.

Personnel on the album are:
Tom Hook – Keyboards and vocals
Eddie Metz, Jr. – Drums, percussion, and vocals
Bobby Durham – bass and vocals
David Poe – saxophones and vocals

1. The Fat Man
2. Rockin’ Pneumonia
3. Cabbagehead
4. Brother John
5. Walkin’ To New Orleans
6. Guilty
7. Let the Good Times Roll
8. How Come My Dog Don’t
9. Bark?
10. Loberta
11. Jock-A-Mo
12. Liza Jane
13. Dat’s Mardi Gras
14. Sick and Tired
15. I Wish I was In New Orleans

Tom Hook Discography

The New Red Onion Jazz Babies
The New Red Onion Jazz Babies – 1983

Rosie O’Grady’s Goodtime Jazz Band
Consider the Possibilities – SunJazz Records SJ719 - 1986

Uncle Yoke’s Black Dog Jazz Band
Come Hear the Truth - recorded 1989 re-released  JL Kraft Productions – JLK101- 1995
Dog Daze – recorded 1990 re-released  JL Kraft Productions – JLK102- 1995
Because We Can – 1991
Head Sessions – 1991

The Black Dog Jazz Band
Off The Leash – 1992
Just Say Woof – 1993
The Terrier Brothers – 1994
Music For Mardi Gras - 1995
Record of the Band That Plays the Blues Dogwater Productions DGWTR0008– 1996
Doggie Style – 1997
In the House - 1999
Hangin’ At the Big Bamboo Dogwater Productions – 2004
Black Dogs On Bourbon Dogwater Productions DGWTR 0012- 2005

Recording as Tom Hook
Big Easy Classics – Dogwater Productions DGWTR0010 - 2001
Love Songs – Dogwater Productions DGWTR0014 - 2008

Les Chiens Noirs
Perfect Strangers – Dogwater Productions – 2003

Ancient Vision
The Vision TM-01 – 1991
Lost At Sea – Musea FGBG 4776 – 2008

Steamboat Syncopators
On the Mississippi Queen

Rick Wakeman
Classic Tracks – Zazoo Records – HTCD3362 – 1993

Dave Gannett Jazz Tuba
Tubas From Hell – Summit Records DCD155 – 1993

 Tom Hook & the Swamp Dogs
Tom Hook & the Swamp Dogs – 1995

 Solo Theatrical Performance
Riverman! – Dogwater Productions – DGWTR0009-1998

Solo Piano
Ballads and Things- Goal Productions – 2001

Piano Duo
Twin Pianos – Ivory Music Productions - 2001
Twin Pianos  OCJF – 2005

Garden District Trio
Back In New Orleans DHMP Records – 2007

With Sally Tenpenny
Tenpenny – Dogwater Productions – 2008

With Mike Gentry
Riverboat Shuffle - 1991

With Louis Ford
Louis Ford and his New Orleans Flairs – 2009

With Cynthia Owen
Light and Love -  2001
Time Heals Everything – 2009

Haydel’s Bakery
Mardi Music of Tom Hook - 2010

Wargames featuring music by Tom Hook-
Naval Campaigns-
Naval Campaigns 1: Jutland
Naval Campaigns 2: Tsushima
Naval Campaigns 3:Guadalcanal
Panzer Campaigns: 
Panzer Campaigns:  Smolensk '41
Panzer Campaigns:  Normandy '44
Panzer Campaigns:  Kharkov '42
Panzer Campaigns:  Tobruk '41
Panzer Campaigns: Bulge '44
Panzer Campaigns: Korsun '44
Panzer Campaigns : Kursk '43
Panzer Campaigns: Sicily '43
Panzer Campaigns: Rzhev '42
Panzer Campaigns: Operation Market-Garden
Panzer Campaigns: El Alamein '42
Panzer Campaigns: France '40
Panzer Campaigns: Salerno '43
Panzer Campaigns: Moscow '41
Panzer Campaigns: Stalingrad '42
Panzer Campaigns: Budapest '45
Panzer Campaigns: Minsk '44
Panzer Campaigns: First Blitzkrieg
Modern War
Total War in Europe: War on the Southern Front
Squad Battles
Squad Battles: Eagles Strike
Squad Battles: Tour of Duty
The Proud and the Few
Squad Battles: Vietnam
Squad Battles: the Korean War
Squad Battles: Advance of the Reich
Squad Battles: Soviet-Afghan War
Squad Battles: Pacific War
Squad Battles: Dien Bien Phu
Decisive Action -
Decisive Action - Fulda Gap '85
Decisive Action -Mid East '67
Decisive Action - Korea '85
Decisive Action - North German Plain '85
Decisive Action - Danube Front '85
Modern Air Power
Modern Air Power-War Over Vietnam
Modern Air Power-War Over the MidEast
Napoleanic Wars
Campaign Eckmuhl
Napoleon's Russian Campaign
Napoleonic Battles: Wagram
Napoleonic Battles: Jena-Auerstadt
Napoleonic Battles: Waterloo
Napoleonic Battles: Austerlitz
Early American Wars
Campaign 1776: The American Revolution
The War of 1812: The Conquest of Canada
The French and Indian War
Campaign Corinth 
Ozark  Campaign
Campaign Franklin
Campaign Gettysburg
Campaign Peninsula
Campaign Shiloh
Campaign Vicksburg
Campaign Chickamauga
Campaign Atlanta
Campaign Antietam
Campaign Chancelorsville

Wargame Music Compilations
Marching With Napolean
Marching in the Deserter

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