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HOLLYWOOD – A longtime private obsession, ’s long-distance love affair with New Orleans music went public in 2011 with the CD and “Great Performances” special “.” As weird as it must’ve been for his TV fans to see and hear the “House” doctor playing and singing the likes of Professor Longhair’s slinky “Tipitina,” the concert special was a success for the network, so much so that many PBS member stations repurposed it for pledge-drive programming. A new special, “Hugh Laurie: Live on the Queen Mary,” debuting at 6 p.m. 4) on WYES with multiple repeats, ranges beyond New Orleans music but glows with love for, whose live album recorded in the same venue in 1975 changed Laurie’s life. “It was 1978. I was 17 or 18,' Laurie said on Saturday, as we chatted in a coffee shop about the special and his career. 'I’ll be honest, I didn’t know a huge amount. I knew the name.

I didn’t own anything by ‘Fess’ at that time. I didn’t own a lot of records, actually, in comparison to some of my pop friends.

“I was between school and university, and, I remember very clearly, I put this record on and I just thought I’m home. This is the guy that I always knew existed but didn’t know where. Diagnostic Software For Ford Diesel. I knew he must have existed, and now I found him. “There are certain songs, certain works of art, certain artists, that are just revealed. I’ve heard sculptors say it’s about visualizing and simply removing the bits you don’t visualize. I uncovered it. I always knew he was there and I uncovered it, I found it.” The Professor Longhair live album documents a performance underwritten by Paul McCartney, who also invited The Meters to play the same private party aboard the Queen Mary, permanently docked in Long Beach, Calif., that night in 1975.

Both performances resulted in LPs. Linda McCartney took the photo of Longhair for the album cover, which Laurie has framed at his home. 'Professor Longhair: Live on the Queen Mary,' Amazon.com “It’s one of the most beautiful photos of him,” Laurie said, which is funny if you know the image. “He looks pretty disaffected by the whole thing.” Without Fess, Laurie has said, he might’ve taken up golf or reclining in front of trains.

“He had that feel, but he also had wonderful wit to him, this ease and cool,” he said. “The more I listened, the more I read, the more I loved him.” A piano player since age 6, Laurie tried to approximate what he heard on the record “in my own fumbling way,” he said.

“A lot of great stuff is deceptive,” he said. “People think it’s simple. Simple is not the same as easy, by any means.

“I had a brief session with Allen Toussaint at Piety Street Studios (for “Let Them Talk”). He scored a horn part, and we were there and we recorded with his guys and we were talking about Fess afterward. He said people had this idea that Fess was a wild guy, that he’d just sort of tear it up. He was actually very, very particular about the tunes that he wrote and the way they needed to be played.” Born in Oxford and educated at and, Laurie tried to use “Go to the Mardi Gras” as the theme music for his early BBC sketch-comedy show, “,” but the rights to the song, owned by McCartney, proved too expensive.

He plays it, and “Tipitina,” in the “Queen Mary” special. Taped in March, Laurie’s Queen Mary performance is a musical revue featuring duets, vocal solos by other band members, and many heartfelt words for Professor Longhair. Had the “Let Them Talk” project, a collaboration with producer Joe Henry, not been accepted by listeners and viewers, “Live on the Queen Mary,” for which Laurie sought and received McCartney’s blessing, probably wouldn’t have been possible. “I was very, very anxious about it,” Laurie said of the reception of the first CD and TV special. “I'm so aware of my probationary status as an outsider. In my head and heart, this is my music, but I have to consciously force myself to acknowledge that this is not my music. This is someone else's culture, tradition, history, and I had better tread very, very carefully.

“When people say, ‘I really liked it,’ it is a massive relief to me. It's a massive relief to get away with it, to not have people punching you out in bars.” In addition to the PBS special, Laurie has a new album (“Didn’t It Rain,” also produced by Henry), and recently toured in Europe with the Copper Bottom Band, which also joins him on the “Queen Mary” special. A kicks off in October in Nashville but doesn’t have a New Orleans date.

“I wrote the other day to, asking for his blessing to do a song of his,” Laurie said. “And I was thinking, now would be the time that he would be completely entitled to say, ‘Actually, you know, I’d rather you didn’t.’ But he was lovely. He said, ‘Have at it.’ “He and Dr. John are the only two living songwriters that we play in the whole show. Everyone else is gone.