Voices of New Orleans

“Why would anybody live here, stay here? Why, why, why, when there's so much crime? But we are unique to all of the world. I have such a sense of belonging here, and I don't know that I ever felt at home before." — novelist Amanda Boyden

Music Friday: A New Orleans theme song

by David Rutledge
August 31, 2007

First off, I want to state that I heard this song on our 8/29 “anniversary” at noon on the world’s greatest radio station, WWOZ. So I am not taking credit for applying this tune to New Orleans. I just think it is a perfect song for the state of our city two years later. And I’m sick of watching pictures of a flooded city and people suffering outside of the Convention Center. I think that all of us here would agree.

So behind the cut is a song for us, Bob Dylan with a tune that New Orleans can appreciate. Hell, we’d even dance to it.

By the way, we would also empathize with this version.


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After Katrina and its horrible aftermath, Chin Music Press felt compelled to shine its wobbly flashlight on New Orleans. This effort resulted in our second book, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? Along the way, we met a community of passionate, eloquent writers who care deeply about what happens to the Big Easy. This blog became a natural extension of the book. It's our way of adding voices to the unfolding story of New Orleans.


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