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Tag Archives: New Orleans
Walter Wolfman Washington and the Road Masters – Steal Away
RIP Wolfman.
Valparaiso Men’s Chorus – A Long Time Ago
Live from the Saturn Bar. I can not highly enough suggest that you see them live one of the 4 times a year they perform. This is the best show I've ever been to. Sea shanties shouted arm in arm with strangers at 3 am.
Cha Wa
Now known as The Rumble Ft. Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr I suggest seeing them live. "My People","Bow Down","Morning Glory","Wildman"
Big Freedia w/ Tank & the Bangas – 4 songs
Betty Bussit; Big; Not Today; BDE.
The Queen Diva drops it with Tank & the Bangas. What more did you not know you needed in your life?
Dr. John, Professor Longhair, Earl King, and The Meters – Big Chief
h/t meat
1974
Buckwheat Zydeco – Hey Ma Petit Fille I’m Going Now
One my pop's favorites.
1989
Pete Fountain – Jazz Me Blues
New Orleans jazz clarinet great Pete Fountain passed away in New Orleans yesterday at the age of 86.
First or Second Monday or Tuesday Book Day
I'm currently working my way through The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence Powell, a history professor at Tulane. It's occasionally dry in its recounting of names, but the history of New Orleans as a city that kept itself as independent as possible from the various 17th and 18th century colonial powers is an interesting one. I'm almost up to the Louisiana Purchase.
On deck, I have Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard, so I have a little mini theme of city-based historical books going on right now.
What are you reading?
Etta James, Dr. John, and Allen Toussaint – Amazing Grace
Goodbye, Mr. Toussaint.
1982