Hold that 99 cents you were going to blow on iTunes! New Orleans Musician's Relief Fund downloads...

[Bluebear]

YOU KNOW THAT NINETY NINE cents you were about to blow on i-tunes? The nonprofit New Orleans Musician's Relief Fund, which help the city's players rebuild livelihoods destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, has a better idea; twenty topically acute mp3s by Crescent City stars and out-of-town friends. Kaiser Chiefs donate "Out of My Depth, a fine new stomp that sounds like a pissed-off Badfinger, and Doctor John is among the locals singing for his neighbors. Ian Hunter's "How's Your House" comes in video form; grim newsreels of the devastation that show why projects like this are still necessary, two years after the flood.

David Fricke
Rolling Stone Magazine

http://www.nomrf.org/Redefine829Download.html

All 20 songs for $19.29 or 99 cents per tune.

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(Also, remembering Barry Cowsill on his birthday tomorrow: September 14, 1954 - sometime in 2005 (lost in Hurricane Katrina)

[babylonsister]

1. K&R! nt

[devilgrrl]

2. Off topic... iTunes has a really lame selection of music available...

There are so many bands, songs, albums, that aren't available. Christ, they're like being stuck shopping for music at friggin' Wal-Mart. :mad:

[TomInTib]

3. I was going to use the Tiburon Art Festival as a fund-raiser for the Relief Fund..

they were all excited and then they just dropped the ball.

And I live in the highest median-income ZIP in the country.

They just blew it and I had no time to put it together all by myself.

Maybe next time.

If I can figure out how to do it, I will download that link provided. I have never messed with that MP3 (or whatever it is) stuff before.

[nomrf]

12. We're way into the Fest!

Hi TomInTib.

Hope we didn't blow the chance, but you may be thinking of nomhrf (now renamed). Their new name change helps keep people from confusing the two groups. Or our spam filter was overactive, but we're all about the kind of exposure a festival can provide. We're a very agile grass roots group and into any opportunity to spread the word about New Orleans musicians and the help they still need so please keep our Fund in mind for next year.

Thanks!!

Jeff and Karen
New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund

[bananas]

4. songs by Barry and Susan Cowsill

"Residents of the Big Easy were astonished to see snow falling steadily on Christmas Day 2004, the first Christmas snow in half a century and the first snowfall in 15 years in the city. Susan Cowsill, her husband Russ Broussard, and several members of their family took the streetcar to the French Quarter to experience the historical snowfall. "After waiting it out for a few hours, it finally began to snow. Big flakes, too! Not enough to stick on the ground, but plenty on the cars to use for snowball fights. It was an extraordinary day with incredible peace and amazing beauty," Russ remembered, “Then, eight months later, the other extreme and polarity of that experience with Hurricane Katrina and the levees breaking." The poignant "Crescent City Snow" combines all the emotions of those two events."
http://www.nomrf.org/catalog/item/4783777/4836378.htm

"A former child star in the family band the Cowsills, New Orleans was Barry's spiritual home. We lost him after Katrina. A musical genious, a lost soul, and natural performer, Barry is missed by family and friends. Proceeds from this download track benefit his children."
http://www.nomrf.org/catalog/item/4783777/4924414.htm

[Bluebear]

5. Crescent City Snow . . . .

I feel like a kite without a string
Only my tail to guide me
Just paper and sticks and tattered sheets
Waiting on a friendly wind

Hold all our memories in one hand
So tight that you won't let them go
And in the other hand we pray
That the wind and the panic and the rain
Will all turn to a
Soft and quiet snow

A long time ago when I was young
I used to know everything
And now it's today and I am sure
That I don't know anything at all

Hold all our memories in one hand
So tight that you won't let them go
And in the other hand we pray
That the wind and the panic and the rain
Will all turn to a
Soft and quiet, gentle peaceful snow

When the Saints come marchin' in
I'll be walking to New Orleans
Eating beignets at DuMonde'
Singing Joni at the Carrollton Station
Hanging out at Jackson Square
12 o'clock I'll meet you there
Down on Frenchmen with Big Chief
Trying to find a place to eat
Tailgatin' at the Dome
Man I can't wait to go home

Our precious hearts are all shattered
Scattered across the land
But I know that I am going back
To the place where I know who I am

Holding all our memories in one hand
So tight that you can't let them go
And in the other hand we pray
That the wind and the panic and the rain
Will all turn to a
Soft and quiet, gentle peaceful, N-O-L-A,
Crescent City Snow

3 a.m. at the Circle Bar
Where the hell did we park the car
6 a.m. at the Christmas Lounge
Man we got a hell of a town
A town where you grandma tells my grandma
While they are sitting by the fire
And we all go down to the Audobon Zoo
Where they all ax (ask) for you
And they say
Who Dat
Who Dat
Who Dat say dey (they) gonna beat dem (them) Saints
Who Dat
Who Dat
Who Dat say dey (they) gonna beat dem (them) Saints
Oh when the Saints come marchin' in

[intheflow]

6. K&R for the arts.

Music has great healing power.

[gateley]

8. Amen. K&R

[midnight]

7. Very neat.... I saw Harry Conick Jr. last April for his NOLA

tour. Has anybody heard his song about his interpretation of that horrible day. Does anyone say neat any more or did I just reveal myself to be a child of the 60's?

[mopinko]

9. thank you

just fell in love with this ipod thing. good.

[Anita Garcia]

10. kick for Katrina and Rita survivors

and Rec'd 'cuz I like it!

[nomrf]

11. Thanks for the support!

Hi Bluebear, thanks so much for posting this. We think Barry would have liked his music living on, and still miss him.

[Bluebear]

13. NOMRF, welcome to DU!

I grew up with their music and am a huge fan. I hope some people get reacquainted with Barry and Susan via this project. Thanks for all you are doing, missing Barry and Billy here.

[Lochloosa]

15. Thanks for the link Bluebear

:toast: to the music.

[Cha]

14. COOL!~

B-)

[bananas]

16. k&r for friday morning. nt