Speaking of parties, no town on earth — save perhaps New York — has needed a New Year’s Eve celebration the way New Orleans did recently. Stover’s jam-band collective, the Fessters, obliged, getting the crowd at d.b.a over its depression with a rowdy set that hews very close to the piano-based R&B the band takes its name from. The band reprises their “No Next Time,” “Solid Quarter” and “King Size Bed” from 2003’s Live And Unheard Of, but in a more classicist light, pinning each down to Trevor Brooks’ excellent barrelhouse piano. Wrap that together with a rollicking take on Johnny Adams’ “What She Don’t Know,” a version of “Big Chief” that switches guitar for horns, and a ragged-but-right closing (faded!) medley that careens between “Tipitina,” “Stagger Lee,” maybe “Alberta,” and possibly Albert Lee’s “Slow Blues In C” in its search for the perfect I-IV-V and Songs Drinkin’ Live becomes a powerful myth buster — recommended for those who think jam bands can’t boogie in the oldest of schools, or that the new New Orleans has been sitting around crying in its Dixie.