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The city that always swings is now a city on its knees. It is a cruel measure of Katrina's devastation that all of the music on this hymn to home, starring local legends such as Dr. John, the Wild Magnolias, Allen Toussaint and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, was made in exile. Exhaustion is a recurring theme, in Irma Thomas' plunge into Bessie Smith's "Back Water Blues" and the long sigh of Buckwheat Zydeco's accordion in "Cryin' in the Streets." There is resurrection, too, heard best in Davell Crawford's gospel elegy "Gather by the River." "We fly away," he sings with utter conviction, "because we can."
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Track List
- Yes We Can Can
- World I Never Made
- Back Water Blues
- Gather by the River
- Cryin' in the Streets
- Canal Street Blues
- Brother John Is Gone / Herc-Jolly -John
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- My Feet Can't Fail Me Now
- Tou' les jours c'est pas la meme (Every Day Is Not the Same)
- L'ouragon (The Hurricane)
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
- Prayer for New Orleans
- What a Wonderful World
- Tipitina and Me
- Louisiana 1927
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