Music Friday: Sing Me Back Home
A little something different this Memorial Day Weekend. Take a look at how the benefit album "Sing Me Back Home" came together through the New Orleans Social Club. You have Ivan and Cyril Neville, Irma Thomas, Henry Butler and others talking about why chose the songs they did, how they feel about the city, and why making this album was so important.
A lot of benefit albums are made by people with good intentions who don't necessarily have a personal connection to the group they are supporting. But if you listen to the NPR piece on "Sing Me Back Home" (which includes three songs from The Subdudes, Willie Tee and The Sixth Ward All-Star Brass Band Revue) you will understand why these musicians - these talented, brilliant, committed musicians, all felt there was something they had to do - that it would be wrong not to do something like this.
Behind the cut, the musicians talk about "Sing Me Back Home". Watch the video then go listen to some New Orleans music and remember all over again why we can not forget.









