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Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino | 
 enlarge | Artists: Paul Mccartney, Tom Petty, Elton John, Neil Young, Norah Jones, Lucinda Williams, Dr. John, Joss Stone, B.b. King, Lenny Kravitz, Art Neville, Willie Nelson, Robert Plant, Corinne Bailey Rae
Label: Vanguard Records
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 3267
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 70225
UPC: 015707022521
EAN: 0015707022521
ASIN: B000SUKPH0
Release Date: September 25, 2007
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Disc 1
| • | Ain't That a Shame - John Lennon | | • | I'm Walkin' - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | | • | Goin' Home - Ivan Neville DumpstaPhunk | | • | Blueberry Hill - Elton John | | • | My Girl Josephine - The New Orleans Social Club | | • | Every Night About This Time - Joss Stone | | • | I Want to Walk You Home - Allen Toussaint | | • | Whole Lotta Loving - Troy Andrews | | • | Don't Leave Me This Way - Dr. John | | • | I'm in Love Again/All By Myself - Jon Cleary | | • | Please Don't Leave Me - Art Neville | | • | Going to the River - Galactic | | • | Blue Monday - Randy Newman | | • | It Keeps Rainin' - Lil' Band O' Gold | | • | One Night (Of Sin) - Corinne Bailey Rae |
Disc 2
| • | Walking to New Orleans - Neil Young | | • | Valley of Tears - The Soweto Gospel Choir | | • | My Blue Heaven - Norah Jones | | • | Honey Chile - Lucinda Williams | | • | Rising Sun - Marc Broussard | | • | When I See You - Donald Harrison Jr. | | • | Be My Guest - Ben Harper | | • | Let the Four Winds Blow - Toots & the Maytals | | • | I Hear You Knockin' - Willie Nelson | | • | I Just Can't Get New Orleans Off My Mind - Irma Thomas | | • | Don't Blame It on Me - Bruce Hornsby | | • | I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday - George Porter Jr. | | • | The Fat Man - Los Lobos | | • | So Long - Big Chief Monk Boudreaux | | • | When the Saints Go Marching In - Theresa Andersson |
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Amazon.com
It wasn't until Fats Domino's New Orleans house was heavily damaged in Hurricane Katrina that many people realized the great R&B pioneer was still alive. Now 79 and fairly reclusive, Domino had a tremendous influence on '50s popular music, his infectious boogie-woogie and triplet-based piano style forming much of the DNA of rock, and influencing scores of artists from Elvis Presley to the Beatles and beyond. To show their appreciation, a plethora of luminaries from rock, jazz, R&B, country, folk, and blues have united for this two-disc, 30-track valentine to Domino, which features modern takes on his timeless music. "United" is a literal term here--while some performers appear solo (Elton John on "Blueberry Hill," Corinne Bailey Rae on the scorching live cut, "One Night (of Sin)"), many of the tracks offer unexpected gumbo-like "mixtures," i.e., Joss Stone teaming with Buddy Guy and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band on "Every Night about this Time." Occasionally, things stray remarkably far from Domino's blueprint (jazz great Herbie Hancock churns it up with George Porter, Jr., Zigaboo Modeliste, and Renard Poche on "I'm Gonna be a Wheel Someday"), while Paul McCartney goes the other route, offering a too-worshipful vocal impersonation ("I Want to Walk You Home"), with fellow legend Allen Toussaint on piano. Still, fine performances abound, especially Neil Young's "Walking to New Orleans," which seethes with political anger, Lucinda Williams' roots-romance of "Honey Chile," and Robbie Robertson and Galactic's visionary "Going to the River." Almost secondarily, the collection serves as an eye-opening look at the thematic span of Domino's recorded output, and, like his Greatest Hits: Walking to New Orleans, released in August 2007, it should bring renewed awareness of his legacy. The iconic musician suffered more than damage to his house in Katrina--looters stole many of his possessions, including his '50s gold records. Here's hoping Goin' Home… will yield a replacement. --Alanna Nash
Amazon.com
Icons from the world of rock, blues, reggae, pop and country music have joined together to salute the genius of legendary piano man FATS DOMINO for the upcoming double CD set, Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino. Goin' Home is set for a September 25th release on Vanguard Records. This stellar tribute to one of the cornerstones of rock n roll music will help raise desperately needed funds specifically earmarked for instruments to be donated to New Orleans public school children. Monies raised from the sales of Goin Home will also go toward the rebuilding of Fats Domino's home and to create a community center in the Crescent City's still ravaged Lower 9th Ward. Proceeds of Goin Home will fund additional community related programs. The Tipitina's Foundation, a 501 (3) non-profit corporation dedicated to preserving the cultural legacy of New Orleans through music education for the youth and providing programs that support working musicians of New Orleans and the Gulf Region, conceived and executive produced Goin Home. The roster of music royalty contributing their interpretations of classic Fats Domino songs include: Sir Elton John (Blueberry Hill), Sir Paul McCartney (I Want To Walk You Home), Tom Petty (I'm Walkin ), Robert Plant (It Keeps Rainin' ), Willie Nelson (I Hear You Knockin ), B.B. King (Goin' Home) and Neil Young (Walkin' To New Orleans). Goin Home will also feature the late John Lennon's version of Fats most popular song, Ain't That A Shame. In addition, some of modern music's most prolific artists have contributed their time and talent including Lenny Kravitz, Norah Jones, Lucinda Williams, Ben Harper with The Skatalites, Toots and The Maytals, Taj Mahal, Herbie Hancock and Bonnie Raitt. More from Vanguard Visionaries 
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Album Description
Just how much Fats Domino is loved by the music community is borne out by the A-list names who've contributed to one of the best tribute albums to surface in recent years. Spanning the worlds of rock (Neil Young, Elton John, Los Lobos, Tom Petty), blues (B.B. King), country (Willie Nelson), jazz (Herbie Hancock), and even reggae (Toots & the Maytals, who nails 'Let the Four Winds Blow'), 30 artists are represented on the two discs, along with a healthy sampling of New Orleans artists, including Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Art Neville, and others. Highlights include tracks from John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Allen Toussaint, Joss Stone, Buddy Guy, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Ben Harper, the Skatalites, Robert Plant with the Soweto Gospel Choir, Randy Newman, Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae -- these artists have done Fats Domino proud.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...
 Goin Home Tribute CD April 14, 2008
Great CD. I bought it for my husband, he's always been a Fats fan and he loves it. All the artists did a wonderful job. Worth every penney.
Best Tribute Album Of 2007 March 29, 2008
If you are a fan of Fat's or the New Orleans sound you gotta purchase this CD. This is a veritable lovefest of the Fat man and it shows in the music. You can certainly tell these folks really cared about this man, his music and the City of New Orleans. The songs keep sounding better and better. The coolest thing, is the proceeds from the sale of this CD go toward buying new musical instruments for the students from N.O. public schools and also benefit other community programs. This is a win, win propostion.
Wonderful CD March 22, 2008
LOVE THIS ALBUM - It is packed full of Fats Domino classics performed by some wonderful new artists and some legends of our own time. This CD brings back many memories of when I used to ride around in my first car with my Fats Domino 8 track. One of the best CDs I now own.
 Lovely Tribute February 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Diversified cast performs a lovely tribute one of the fathers of American music. Must have
 Variable overall but with some real gems February 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The reason for this CD and the status of the man in the history of his city and rock 'n roll and the plight of New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina are not in doubt but judged on the musical content alone, this double CD offering does come across as a mixed bag overall I fear.
While some of the new recordings are great interpretations (Tom Petty, Lucinda Williams and Randy Newman) some are frankly disappointments (Elton John, Paul McCartney, Los Lobos and Lennie Kravitz), but given two discs worth the chances of getting a high level of consistency was always going to be a high goal. What is the real gem however is the existence of a number of alternative interpretations which come across as real finds - my own surprises being the two Robert Plant contributions (each very different and a precursor to his more recent work with Alsion Krause and T Bone Burnett) and Taj Mahal, Toots and the Maytals and Willie Nelson in putting their own personal stamp on their interpretations.
I was left feeling after several plays that judicious choice would have produced a killer single CD rather than a variable double such as we have here.
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