Muddy Waters - Louisiana Blues - and a wish for Queen Marie

[...of J.Temperance]

I was listening to some Muddy Waters earlier, and I think 'Louisiana Blues' is the perfect tune for this AWFUL period of our ENTIRE existence. Even got some Little Walter chipping in and blowing his harmonica.

Another apt tune would be Them's version of 'Baby Please Don't Go'.

I'll NOT be able to watch David Lynch's 'Wild At Heart' or Jim Jarmusch's 'Down By Law' for a long while...not until we get the Crescent City back up and running, to something like it was before this blatant BLATANT act of HOMICIDAL and DELIBERATE negligence.

I'd like to know how other people are coping with this HORRIBLE event of Biblical proportions? I'm thankful my family were able to evacuate before Katrina hit...but I'm gutted for those poor souls that were left behind...and I'm distraught about what condition the Crescent City is in :cry:

What I'd like RIGHT now, please Queen Marie, put a curse on the MONSTER for tomorrow for the EVIL, WICKED act of terrorism that he's inflicted on the city and her people.

[Dudley_DUright]

1. I have been playing a lot of delta blues on my guitar

The music is sad but powerful in these trying times.

[...of J.Temperance]

2. Agreed, and the blues is the best for this time, because

As we've always known...no matter how depressed and distraught you are over something...the old bluesmen are ALWAYS even worse off over something than you are ;)

I'll be hitting some Leadbelly any moment now I reckon...well hitting Leadbelly AND some Tequila.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Louisiana 1927 by Randy Newman

Aaron Neville sang it last night on the NBC special.

It's been my earworm all day.

What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne

CHORUS
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand
The President say, "Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has done
To this poor crackers land."

CHORUS

[...of J.Temperance]

5. Oh dear :( Those words are just TOO much

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. Did you hear Aaron Neville singing this last night?

It was gut wrenching.

[...of J.Temperance]

24. Fortunately

Not, I never heard it last night.

I'm stuck in England, but in 15 days I'll be heading to Texas and I HOPE parts of Louisiana to see my family. I spoke to them last night on the phone, some of them anyway...everything is SO emotional at the moment.

I hope EVERYBODY can recover from this trauma...one day. And that I can recover from being completely ASHAMED of the fact that I'm white.

Our brothers and sisters in the African-American community have been let down SO badly the past week. I feel GUILTY that I'm white :(

[StellaBlue]

28. Don't

You are one with all right-minded, good-spirited people. It's about human decency. You can't help that you are white!!! It's people like white DUers who give whites a GOOD NAME.

* does NOT represent us. The slave-owning 'Founding Fathers' do NOT represent us. Those people are in league with all other elitists throughout history. Race is just a convenient way for them to divide the rest of us.

Don't buy it!

[...of J.Temperance]

31. Thanks :)

I know what you're saying. I know we're on the good side ;)

[mandyky]

20. Being a big Aaron Neville fan

combined with the haunting words of this song had me weeping, that and his rendition of Amazing Grace.

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. I had been listening to Randy Newman's version all afternoon

and then I heard Aaron Neville singing it. :cry: :cry: :cry:

[AnnieBW]

4. Queen Marie

I've always wanted to visit New Orleans and lay flowers on her grave. I'm guessing that Marie's remains are mixed in with the rest of the toxic stew that has become her city. :(

My take on it is that the Voudou practitioners did lots of "steer the hurricane away" magic, which is why it jogged to the east a bit. But, they didn't do any "keep the levees intact" magic.

[...of J.Temperance]

7. Gosh, I hope her remains haven't washed away

And I hope the magic workers are okay and are starting to work their thing tonight for the MONSTER tomorrow.

Even if Marie Laveau's remains have washed away, her spirit will still remain and she's bound to be MORE pissed off than ever.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. I hope she puts some sort of pox

on George Bush. I want to see the skin fall off his face. Now where's that box of pins that I misplaced?

[smoogatz]

6. N'awlins is my favorite city in the world

and it's truly heartbreaking to see so much of it in such dire circumstances. I can't help thinking, though, that the spirit of the Crescent City survives. Even Hiroshima and Dresden were rebuilt, after all. That said, what Bush and his inner circle of asslicking fuckwits have doen to New Orleans is nothing short of criminal. May Queen Marie help PFitz send the whole lot of them to Leavenworth.

[...of J.Temperance]

8. A beautiful, sexy, gorgeous, mysterious GEM of a city, a complete JEWEL

The spirit is STILL there, it'll ALWAYS be there and it must be rebuilt in nearly the same way it was. Many of those buildings are still standing.

My BIGGEST fear is that the MONSTER'S cronies are going to bulldoze it and sell off the land to fat cat developers, who'll build McMansions, resorts, MEGA expensive apartments and another bloody Disneyland and WASH away the culture, the soul, the heritage, the HEART,

WE CANNOT ALLOW THESE PIG FUCKERS TO DO THIS!

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. You understand what is going on here

that is why I've been arging on a lot of other threads to let these people go home if they want to.

Bush is trying to pull of the biggest land grab since the English and Spanish took America from the Indians.

[...of J.Temperance]

14. I THINK about this for most of my waking hours, SERIOUSLY

I'm TERRIFIED and I feel SO COMPLETELY helpless :(

How are we going to STOP this? I'm bloody hoping that Governor Blanco, Attorney-General Foti and the ENTIRE Landrieu family can PREVENT this attempted theft.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph...there's at LEAST a MILLION Landrieu family members, what with cousins, Aunts, Uncles, everybody's kids...they NEED to put a STOP to this shit BEFORE it happens.

I'm SO upset over all of this :(

People NEED to listen to people like you and I, it's important that they heed our pre-warning.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[smoogatz]

17. I hope you're wrong.

But I'm afraid you might be right. Some Disneyfied version of New Orleans built in the old city's place would be a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe.

[...of J.Temperance]

18. So do I...I hope that Moon Landrieu and family will stop it

Moon Landrieu, that's HIS damn city, he built it, or he built up A LOT of it. New Orleans is the Landrieu's town...surely they MUST prevent the Crescent City and her people from getting raped by the Monster and his cronies.

If the Landrieu's CAN'T save NOLA, then I'm afraid NOBODY can.

[StellaBlue]

29. Was in Dresden two years ago

Parts of it are beautiful.

[samdogmom]

9. Dr. John--Marie Laveau...but all his music

I've been having a personal wake playing Dr. John, Aaron Neville, Muddy Waters, Louis Armstrong, and Wynton Marsalis. If anyone can add other artists to my repertoire, please feel free...

[...of J.Temperance]

12. You should try getting "Sugar Bee" by Cleveland Crochet

It's a Cajun tune, written by the great Eddie Shuler. I've got a record of it, although the B-side is TOO much for ANYONE to take and that's called "Drunkard's Dream".

But, you should look and see if there's an mp3 of Crochet's "Sugar Bee", you WON'T regret finding it :)

[samdogmom]

19. Thanks!

I'll check Cleveland Crochet out. I'm completely unfamiliar with this artist/group so it will be a good learning experience! I never got to visit New Orleans and I'm Really, Really SORRY. I love jazz and many of the artists that got their start in this city. Plus, I love many more artists that simply were influenced by artists from this city.

This is such a loss--I'm truly hoping that New Orleans can rise again. (By the way, one of the most meaningful pictures for me from the disaster is the one with the gentleman carrying his tuba and a small suitcase of his belongings. I think this photo tells a compelling story about the culture of New Orleans.) PLEASE...--THE CITY MUST COME BACK!

[...of J.Temperance]

21. Here's a good link for you:

It's for Goldband Records, the label that Crochet recorded for. There's clickable links as you scroll down, so you'll get Crochet information. But there's some other really good tunes available - I'm quite choosy myself, I only go in for some of the Swamp Pop stuff, like "Sugar Bee", stuff like the original version of "Sea Of Love" by Phil Phillips etc and I like some of the Cajun French stuff, oh another good one is Johnnie Allen's "South To Louisiana". I'm not a fan of Zydeco music at ALL.

But if you scroll down this page, you can buy stuff online, and they must have a fab Swamp Pop compilation album there someplace, which very well might have "Sugar Bee" on it.

http://www.purecajun.com/goldband/artist.htm

Floyd Soleil put good stuff out too on his Swallow record label. He's had a record store in Ville Platte, La. for YEARS, I think his son runs it now and they do mail order, I've got their address somewhere around the house...I'll find it and drop it your way if you want?

Floyd's Music Box.

It's BEYOND words how tragic NOLA is right now. But, it'll get cleaned up (NOT TOO CLEAN mind you, we like it a BIT dirty ;))and in a few years it'll be back...and then you'll get your visit mon amie :)

[Matariki]

13. Marie Laveau did a tremendous amount of work for cholera victims

a quote from a bio about her:

"She was very successful as a nurse, wonderful stories being told of her exploits at the sick bed. In yellow fever and cholera epidemics she was always called upon to nurse the sick, and always responded promptly."

note the last four words of that paragraph. New Orleans needs her now, for sure.

[...of J.Temperance]

15. Isn't there Cholera in The Big Easy right now?

Queen Marie needs to curse the BASTARDS and do a nice bit of magic to help the poor people and to save the city from the VULTURES.

[Matariki]

25. one case so far. definitely the potential

that's why i posted that quote.

[...of J.Temperance]

27. Oh no :(

I've heard e.coli and all kinds are hanging around too.

The MONSTER has made NOLA into a Third World area.

:cry:

[Booster]

16. I just bought a CD of Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Think

I'll listen to it for a while.

[...of J.Temperance]

26. Is "Blues For Abraham Lincoln" on the Hooker CD?

Because that's a FAB tune.

[Booster]

30. No. There's a Blues For Big Town, and of course BOOM BOOM.

One of my very favorites.

[...of J.Temperance]

32. You got some good stuff then

I hope you've got some Howlin' Wolf? "Goin' Down Slow" EVERYBODY should own. In my humble opinion, that tune has the best guitar EVER on a recording...played by Hubert Sumlin.

In particular a part that's fab, is just after Chester Burnette growls:

"Please write my Mama, tell her the shape I'm in"

Marvellous stuff.