VA-Our New Orleans A Benefit Album-CD-FLAC-2005-THEVOiD

                              DRIFT INTO THE VOID
 Info   
     Artist  | VA
     Title   | Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album
     Genre   | Blues                                Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 62:53
     Label   | Nonesuch Records                     Store   | 2005
     Catalog | 7559-79934-2                         Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 704 kbps                             Size    | 351.38 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Allen Toussaint - Yes We Can Can                            4:15
     02. Dr. John - World I Never Made                               4:01
     03. Irma Thomas - Back Water Blues                              3:31
     04. Davell Crawford - Gather By The River                       3:39
     05. Buckwheat Zydeco - Cryin' In The Streets                    8:43
     06. Dr. Michael White - Canal Street Blues                      3:40
     07. The Wild Magnolias - Brother John Is Gone Herc-Jolly-John   5:31
     08. Eddie Bo - When The Saints Go Marching In                   2:18
     09. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - My Feet Can't Fail Me Now      4:38
     10. Carol Fran - Tou' Les Jours Cest Pas La Meme                3:59
     11. Beausoleil - L'ouragon                                      3:58
     12. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Do You Know What It Means To  2:42
         Miss New Orleans
     13. Charlie Miller - Prayer For New Orleans                     2:14
     14. The Wardell Quezergue Orchestra Featuring Donald Harrison   3:50
         - What A Wonderful World
     15. Allen Toussaint - Tipitina And Me                           2:52
     16. Randy Newman And The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra -     3:02
         Louisiana 1927
 Notes  
     Several benefit albums have been released in the wake of Hurricane
     Katrina's landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, and most - if
     not all - of them have been fine and well-intentioned affairs, full
     of the spirited and lively music that has long made the Crescent
     City special. Each of these collections has merit, but if you can
     only afford to pick up one, then this is it.
     "Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album" features New Orleans-linked
     musicians, several of whom were among the four-hundred-thousand
     people displaced when the levees failed, on new recordings made
     within a month of the disaster, and that immediacy gives these
     performances uncommon resonance. The full weight of the region's
     loss permeates every track here, as well as the power of music to
     confront, diffuse, overcome, define, absorb and transcend.
     Allen Toussaint, the pianist, singer, songwriter and producer, lost
     everything but the clothes on his back to the flood waters, yet his
     funky, hopeful "Yes We Can Can," which opens this amazing set,
     reveals the boundless hope inherent in the human spirit, and the
     song is reshaped by Toussaint into a powerful belief in the future
     of New Orleans, soaring against the long odds with defiant joy. Soul
     singer Irma Thomas' stunning version of Bessie Smith's "Backwater
     Blues," which was recorded by Smith shortly after the failure of the
     levees in 1927, is as raw as a shocked nerve, held together by the
     singer's subtle, angry resignation.
     The Wild Magnolia's ramshackle and insistent "Brother John Is
     Gone/Herc-Jolly-John" reminds us of the wild, uplifting, and chaotic
     energy that has always been at the heart of the region's music. The
     Dirty Dozen Brass Band's "My Feet Can't Fail Me Now" seems
     particularly apt given the current refugee status of so many of the
     coast's residents, yet the classic second-line arrangement is
     likewise powerfully reassuring. Buckwheat Zydeco's "Cryin' in the
     Streets" is a powerfully emotional gospel shout that draws on its
     own desperation until a kind of redemption is reached, the musical
     equivalent of the old saying 'we laughed/we cried'.
     Randy Newman's gorgeous "Louisiana 1927" is also here, re-recorded
     with the combined Louisiana and New York Philharmonic Orchestras,
     and the song's chorus, "Louisiana/They're tryin' to wash us away,"
     has never sounded so poignant and terrifyingly true. Song after song
     on Our New Orleans exhibits an elegiac awareness of what has been
     lost and the difficult decisions and tasks that are yet to come. The
     Preservation Hall Jazz Band's version of "Do You Know What It Means
     to Miss New Orleans," a song that was written for the 1947 film New
     Orleans and had since become a kind of cheesy tourist staple.
     Reclaims the heart of the tune and returns it to its status as a
     gloriously beautiful love song for an amazing city, a city that not
     only has to be rescued and rebuilt, it must also be remade, for what
     is lost, if it comes back again, comes back inevitably changed.
     Pianist Eddie Bo tackles the hoary "When the Saints Go Marching In"
     like it's a song he's singing for the first time ever in his life,
     and the world-weary joy and exhausted determination inherent in the
     lyrics gives "Saints" a renewed substance and weight. The old song,
     perhaps half forgotten even by the people who sing it and hear it
     daily, is here stripped of all its tired moss and revealed for the
     glorious parade hymn it always was, the best tune ever for marching
     joyously into the future.
     But the future for New Orleans is uncertain. Many who were forced to
     leave when the levees were breached may not return, either because
     they can't or won't. The city will have to be remade, hopefully in
     its old image, but it won't be easy, it it's possible at all. The
     ghosts of Katrina and its aftermath will always be there. But the
     musicians on this stunning album trust the music of New Orleans to
     give solace, hope and direction in the massive recovery that lies
     ahead, and as Eddie Bo ends his revisionist, stripped down,
     sparkling rendition of "Saints" here with a quiet, softly spoken "I
     wanna be in that number," it's obvious the music already has. Get
     this.

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