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Dr. John, the voice of New Orleans, has found another meaning in his hometown’s party-town monicker, The City That Care Forgot, the title of his angry and straightforward album that firmly points the blame for Katrina and its aftermath on corporate greed and government collusion.

Recorded with his funky trio, the Lower 911, with cameos from Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson and Terence Blanchard, every song (5 of them co-written with fellow Louisiana exile, the great Bobby Charles) addresses a different aspect of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, from the wetlands development that made the impact worse to the ineffectuality of the government’s response. He also sings about the individual stories - the sorrow and suicides that followed the endless wrangling with insurance companies and agencies to try to get re-established in the city. As he says in his Nawlins patois, ‘Short version is, we getting’ mad!’

Playlist

1421
Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

1422
CD Cut 9 - 'Say Whut?'
Mac Rebennack and Rev. Goat Carson, horns arranged by Alonzo Bowens
Fonkalot Music, Inc. BMI
429 Records CTX 418CD (distributed in Australia by Shock: www.shock.com.au, internationally: www.429records.com
Dr John and the Lower 911 - 'City That Care Forgot'
4:32
(Easy Nawlins Fonk groove belies the fact that this is a song that points the finger at alleged law-enforcement officers' murders of supposed drowning victims in post-Katrina New Orleans. It also describes President Bush's visit - 'He said, "mission accomplished", giggled like a bitch then got back on Air Force One.')

1429
CD Cut 12 - 'The City That Care Forgot'
Mac Rebennack and Rev. Goat Carson, horns arranged by Alonzo Bowens
Fonkalot Music, Inc. BMI
429 Records CTX 418CD (distributed in Australia by Shock: www.shock.com.au, internationally: www.429records.com
Dr John and the Lower 911 - 'City That Care Forgot'
5:34
(Minor key dirge with guitar by Eric Clapton and backing vocals by Ani di Franco in song that turns around New Orleans' good-time city monicker into one referring to federal cynicism and do-nothingness post disaster, ending in trolley car bell)

Segue

1434
CD Cut 10 - 'Expression'
John Coltrane, arr by Dave Liebman
Jowcol Music (BMI)
Telarc CD 83673 ( in Australia through Fuse Music Group: www.fusemusic.com.au
Worldwide: wwww.telarc.com )
Saxophone Summit (Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Ravi Coltrane - 'Seraphic Light'
9:22
(Coltrane late period devotional music starting with Cecil McBee's solo double bass, then with the three leaders' tenor saxophones and Randy Brecker's trumpet playing freely together, ending with Billy Hart's rapidly thumped bass drum)

RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:

Saxophone Summit (Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Ravi Coltrane - 'Seraphic Light'
will be the featured CD on the Daily Planet on Thursday 3 July

1445
CD Cut 5 - 'The Night Becomes You'
Pat Metheny
Pat-Meth Music BMI
Nonesuch 467580-2 ( if issued in Australia, through Warner Music: www.warnermusic.com.au
worldwide: www.nonesuch.com )
Pat Metheny w/Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez - 'Tokyo Day Trip Live'
6:12
(Beautiful ballad for Pat's lusciously processed acoustic guitar, Antonio Sanchez' drums and Christian McBride's double bass)

1452
CD Cut 7 - 'We Gettin' There'
Mac Rebennack and Chris Rose, horns arranged by Alonzo Bowens
Fonkalot Music, Inc. BMI
429 Records CTX 418CD (distributed in Australia by Shock: www.shock.com.au, internationally: www.429records.com
Dr John and the Lower 911 - 'City That Care Forgot'
5:11
(Mid tempo fonk and brass in story that documents the sad aftermath of Katrina - drug and alcohol dependency and suicides due to stalled insurance claims and high rents, featuring male vocal chorus and Terence Blanchard's interjecting trumpet.

1458
CD Cut 10 - 'E Flat Blues'
Trad, Arr by the Hot 8
Full Thought Publishing
Tru Thoughts CD Tru CD 141 (Through Creative Vibes in Australia www.cvibes.com The Hot 8 Brass Band - 'Rock With the Hot 8 Brass Band'
one minute excerpt
(Very swinging, loose New Orleans blues with brass and percussion and sax )

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Lucky Oceans

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Lucky Oceans