HEY MUSIC FANS! Help us get a musical monument to New Orleans...

[Bennyboy]

http://gulf.refresheverything.com/ninelivesproject

Vote every day if you can.

Cuz we all know that music is New Orleans. From Louis Armstrong to Professor Longhair to the Radiators and Galactic no city has as rich of music heritage as The Big Easy..

Thanks y'all.

[Bennyboy]

1. Louis Armstrong.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA

[Bennyboy]

37. Basin Street Blues.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GuDExkBmnU&NR=1

[Bennyboy]

38. Dream A Little Dream Of Me....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-xzfwDAn1I&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

2. Professor Longhair...

with the legendary kings of funk, The Meters.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA

[Bennyboy]

3. Fats Domino!

I'm walkin" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y29RZpHnkq8

[Tikki]

4. Neville Brothers..

.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R6ud-tSy3c
"Yellow Moon"......



Tikki will do...

[Bennyboy]

26. Ivan Neville's Dumpstafunk

Symphony For The Devil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZnEY-JY56U

[Bennyboy]

29. Don't forget Bobby Charles!

Walkin In New Orleans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9Mm2BfONg

Last Train To Memphis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMpt3MPSdkA&feature=related

Happy Birthday Fats Domino http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9JNXikPXo&feature=more_related

The Mardi Gras Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtNrpm8mUm0&feature=related

Down South In New Orleans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL-G1BfTvyI&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

5. Galactic

with Lyrics Born http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcbIBnPrOTA

[Bennyboy]

6. The Meters!

Sissy Strut! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBnQvd_xzs

[Bennyboy]

7. Bonerama! (three bones and drums!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZwYoMBMyMs When the Levee Breaks (which is NOT A Led Zep song). It is a Memphis Minnie song...

[Tikki]

8. Clarence 'Frogman' Henry...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIAmcJHu1Z0
"(I Don't Know Why I Love You) But I Do"...




Tikki

[Bennyboy]

10. Nice one....

Too many people know him only for the one song. He has a pretty rich catalog....

[Bennyboy]

9. The New OrleansRadiators!

Never let your fire go out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzKHCyWqvdU&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

11. Sonny Landreth (IS GOD ON GUITAR!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf2k7WpkIxQ

[Bennyboy]

12. Anders Osborne

A show I saw at jazz fest this year. With NOLA residents, Stanton Moore (Galactic, Garage a Trois)and Robert Walter (Greyboy Allstars)..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gci0D7tkhjA

[Bennyboy]

13. Garage A Trois...(SUPERGROUP!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PU6B_JpWzU&feature=related If 6 were 9..

Stanton Moore (Drums), Charlie Hunter (8 string guita/rbass thing), Skerik (saxophone) and Mike Dillon (vibes)

[Tikki]

14. Dr. John....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdvzfeIKHTE
"Goin' Back To New Orleans"....



Tikki

[Bennyboy]

17. Mac Rebennack!

Me loves some of the good doctor! Good to see he has lot a lot of weight and looks healthy....

Must have been the right place, but the wrong time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t1_feXAQzM

[Bennyboy]

15. Theresa Andersson...(the girl can play anything!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PU6B_JpWzU&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

16. Everything...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2eD4GcLohE&NR=1

[Bennyboy]

18. Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue...

Might be the most exciting act in the Crescent City nowadays... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWYA5OzK9xE Let's get It On....

[SoxFan]

19. THE MOUTH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOZq3G4_VQY

[Bennyboy]

21. I was just about to post some Cowboy Mouth......

but you beat me too it! Good job..

[Tikki]

20. Chris Kenner....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buoj3-AHd08
"Sick and Tired"...

...the name of the band is the Twistlettes"....


Tikki

[abq e streeter]

22. And in the middle of so much of it, Alan Toussaint

[Bennyboy]

24. He is kind of the avatar of modern day New Orleans music...

He was great at Fest this year too and played an incredible set last year at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass...

[Bennyboy]

23. Buckwheat Zydeco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRRW3aine6Y&feature=fvw

The night before Katrina hit he was playing in sacramento. I was talking to him about the impending disaster. By then everyone knew it was going to hit New Orleans and I was wondering why he was out in CA playing a gig. he told me that he was better off, cuz he could make money. If he was in NOLA he might have lost everything and no longer been able to play music or go on the road. We all prayed for him and his family in the area....

[Tikki]

25. Imagination Movers..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrxL436KiEk
"I Want My Mommy".....




Tikki

[Jeffersons Ghost]

27. busted flat in Baton Rough

[Bennyboy]

28. Papa Mali...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZnEY-JY56U One of my favorites. Guy can play the funkiest swampiest guitar ever...

[Bennyboy]

30. Big Sam's Funky Nation!

Bring the Funk... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwjNAm7UWjY&feature=related

One of the best nights of my life was partially spent at a Sam's show on Frenchman Street on the last day of fest this year. Van Morrison. BB King at fest (among many others) then a Treme private party at Buffas and then dancing with Big Sam. Serious fun....

The venue is the New Orleans Music Factory that is the defacto monument to New Orleans...I'll be posting some great stuff from there.

[Bennyboy]

31. The New Orleans Music Factory!!!!!!!

Cotton Mouth Kings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGNaHE4sG8M&NR=1

Honey Island Swamp Band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfcuaSiIzGQ&feature=related

John Cleary and the Absolute Monster gentlemen (Cleary is a regular in Bonnie Raitt's band)...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMoTVT3XFKg&feature=related

I love this place. You can stand right on the toes of the guys on stage. So intimate. So crowded. The scene all around the place is incredible though, people partying all day on the street out front, the galleries nearby and the intimacy is unlike any other place to see music on the planet...

[Bennyboy]

62. Big Chief...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3R9tCc5ukQ&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

32. The Subdudes!

One Word, PEACE: http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_15832088

Known to Touch Me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTMIyWVav2I&feature=fvw


Love Is A Beautiful Thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTMIyWVav2I&feature=fvw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-75WHHql5Aw&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

33. The City Of New Orleans (Studio 60)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-75WHHql5Aw&feature=related

One of the greatest moments in TV history IMO.. Roamntic, moving,and a message. I miss Aaron Sorkin.

[Bennyboy]

34. Let's not forget the BRASS BANDS!

Dirty Dozen rocks your face! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXDzhPM8nJk

Interesting vid on how they became THE BRASS band in NOLA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0nml-JIx2Y&feature=fvw

Funk on yer face! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgP71EHh-eQ&feature=channel

[Bennyboy]

35. REBIRTH BRASS BAND!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E1VBCcA76E

[Bennyboy]

36. Preservation Hall Jazz band!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDVy_m6zIU&feature=related

One of the best sets at fest this year. With Amy LaVere and Yim Yames (Jum James of My Morning Jacket). excellent,especially considering that I met Amy on the train to the Fest...

[Bennyboy]

45. TBC Brass band takes over the street!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx44QPRPWEc&p=92B84A4F251BE12B&playnext=1&index=8

[Bennyboy]

46. Soul Rebels Brass Band

http://www.democraticunderground.com/ Live at the Blue Nile on Frenchman Street...

[Bennyboy]

47. Hot 8 Brass Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl74E-0F_Fo&feature=more_related

[kwassa]

39. Henry Butler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRMfiAjKcfQ

[Bennyboy]

41. I love Henry Butler...

That guy can tinkle the ivories with the best of them...

[kwassa]

40. James Booker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhERsrGg2As

[Bennyboy]

42. The Best radio station in the world! WWOZ plays the music of new Orleans all day,every day...

http://www.wwoz.org/ The lifeline of New Orleans.

[KamaAina]

43. After Katrina, many New Orleanians didn't even bother turning their radios back on

until 'OZ came back on the air -- which took several weeks, because their former broadcast site in Louis Armstrong Park took several feet of water.

[Bennyboy]

44. That was one happy day, I remember it well....

The day OZ came back on.... Meant to me there was some progress happening...

[Bennyboy]

48. Irene Sage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw-Gi9HEx3E

[Bennyboy]

49. What about some ZYDECO!

Nathan Williams and The Zydeco Cha Chas! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDINSU7Q78Y

[Bennyboy]

50. Geno Delafose & French Rockin Boogie

Geno Delafose & French Rockin Boogie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kFo5aYJI2U&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

51. Dear New Orleans (benefit album out Aug 24th)

Sign up and get some free music... http://www.dearno.la/

[MilesColtrane]

52. I'd vote for it if I didn't have to give out my email address.

[Bennyboy]

53. make up another one?!?!?!

I do that all the time myself. Just for this purpose right here...

[MilesColtrane]

54. OK, done.

When I saw the email address requirement I wrongly assumed that they would send you a password to log in, thus rendering a fake email unusable.

Somebody named hosemaster42672 using yahoo mail is going to be puzzled when he starts getting Pepsi promotions.

[Bennyboy]

56. cool. Funny and cool.

I have an email just for that type of thing....I got there about once a month and clear all the spam...

[Bennyboy]

55. How can we have a NOLA music thread without some Marsalis'?

The whole gang right here.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJY046e-0LU

[Bennyboy]

57. What? No Harry Connick Jr.?!?!?!?!?!!

St James Infirmary....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQIa-JKFDsA&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

58. With Ellis Marsalis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQIa-JKFDsA&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

59. A good time for some Anders Osborne!

He came from Scandanavia and decided that New Orleans was the best place to play music...He was right...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ-aJ1bWGLw&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

60. The Wild Magnolias (funk it up!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cllX_9n_uBk

Smoke My PEACE Pipe...

[Bennyboy]

61. Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & The Golden Eagles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZoH1DnyQC0

[Bennyboy]

63. Tipitina's! (best music venue ever!)

Rebirth Bras band at Tips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhRyoCxwawU

[Bennyboy]

64. Vote today again! 8th place and we need some votes!

Time is running out....

[Bennyboy]

65. Help New Orleans peeps affected by the oil spill TONIGHT!

www.wwoz.org (but you should be listening anyway)

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 7:30pm - 11:00pm

Venue: Contemporary Arts Center
The Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation (LCEF) presents LA Fête Cultural 2010, a benefit event for workers at various types of cultural institutions who have been affected by the BP oil disaster.

The night begins at 6 p.m. with a Patron Party featuring the Shannon Powell Trio with special guest Carol Fran. Celebrity guests Mario Cantone ("Sex & the City), Michael Cerveris (Fox's "Fringe") and Faith Ford will also be in attendance. A live and silent auction will take place while guests enjoy cuisine from renowned area restaurants.

WWOZ will broadcast the main concert beginning at 7:30 p.m., including performances by Tab Benoit's Swampland Jam (featuring Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, and Johnny Sansone), Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience, and Big Sam's Funky Nation.

[Bennyboy]

66. I Am New Orleans (Vince Vance on the 5th anny of Katrina)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V86xxTm8-ek

[musette_sf]

71. My first year in NOLA

the big hit was that OTHER famous song by VV & the Valiants.... IIRC it was a favorite of Grampy McCain.....

[Bennyboy]

73. My Katrina Story....(five years later)

(The chronological order might be off, but this is my memory)

The night before Katrina was to hit New Orleans I was at a show featuring a friend's band ( Stymie and The Pimp Jones Love Orchestra) with Buckwheat Zydeco as the headliner.

Before he took the stage, I was talking to BZ about why he was there, in Sacramento, with Katrina bearing down on The Gulf and New Orleans. He told me, he had to be there, if he had gone home, he would have lost out on his booking fees already paid and probably would not have been able to resume touring. He was afraid for his family and hoped they would be alright, but he felt that he had to keep out on the road to keep making money so his family would be able to recover post hurricane. Had he not, he might have lost his gear, his band would have scattered and his family might have done the same. He told me he was scared, that he had never seen anything that bad before.

He put on the best show ever, i thought. Pure emotion, it was as if his life depended on this one performance. (of course he is almost always like that!).

After the show we were sharing in some post show treats and we all got together and prayed for his family and everyone in the gulf. Very moving moment....

The next day Katrina hit. The videos etc were horrifying. All I could do was cry. It seemed to me that this was the last thing I had, the wonderful city of New Orleans, and now that too was gone.

For a couple of days, I just sat around watching the news about the tragedy unfolding there. Even though I lived in CA, I felt a sense of loss unlike anything I have ever felt. I couldn't work, I cancelled all my appointments for a few days after. I was in shock.

Then on Thursday I was listening to my local community radio station (KVMR.org) and they were talking about Katrina.

Then it came to me, why not put on a pledge drive for Katrina victims and musicians especially? I know the one thing the gov't would not provide was instruments that were lost in the tragedy. So I called the station (I SO LOVE COMMUNITY RADIO!!!) and suggested that they do a pledge drive over Thanksgiving to benefit musicians and more specifically Tipitinas and the Preservation Hall musicians funds. The idea was met with such positivity!

I posted it here, and at first we thought we could get all community and public radio stations involved. I received a lot of input from Zydekitten (who lived in the Sacramento area then, I think), Jeff PapaFrog and many others here on this board. Myself and the guys at the station all got together and we were dismayed by the fact that, according to FCC rules, radio stations could only raise money for themselves and not for any other purpose.

I had contacted a ton of stations about having a nationwide benefit but none of them could agree on the date of the pledge drive nor the purpose or the recipient of the funds.

But the seed was planted and the guys at KVMR along with other stations, got the FCC to change their rules for a one time only pledge drive to benefit Katrina victims. Kvmr board decided that it was too narrow for them to only have recipients be limited to the music, so they instead made it so the money went to the general Katrina funds (to this day, I think that opportunity was wasted) instead of the Tipitinas and P Hall musicians funds..

KVMR had their pledge drive for Katrina and on that weekend we raised over 70 thousand dollars for Katrina charities.

Even though my involvement was kind of limited to planting the seed and seeing the first little sprout come out of the ground, I am still am pretty proud that I did something and got a lot of people to think about how they could help....

I didn't come back to New Orleans till last year. (or on this board much) In the time between Katrina and 2010 my life too was like New Orleans. Pretty much in shambles. Taking one step up and two steps back. Parent dying. Getting ripped off in business. Dealing with my insane Father. Housing market crashing. Losing everything at least once or twice. Homelessness. Chronic pain.

But I knew that if I ever got back to New Orleans, I would have made it back, all the way back. I tried to book a flight the week leading up to the Super Bowl, I really wanted to be in The Quarter when (and there was no doubt in my mind) the Saints won the Super bowl. A Huge victory for New Orleans. But that wasn't to be. Couldn't get one cheap enough, so I set my sights on making it back to Fest.....

And when I got off the train in New Orleans that day, I knew that not only would I be okay, but that the city I loved would be okay too. It was a HUGE personal victory for me.

Yes, the city still has a lot of recovering to do, as do I. Some things are very different now for the both of us. Some are much better.(the Rockin' Bowl most notably) and some things are bad but not as bad as then.......

But we are both back and plan to be around for many years to come.....
__________________
"In any given situation there are way more dumb people than smart people" Ken Kesey

[Bennyboy]

67. VOTE!! We are slipping, now 9th and we gotta be in the top 10!!!

[Bennyboy]

68. Aaron Neville will be joined by Allen Toussaint for his upcoming album

Aaron Neville will be joined by Allen Toussaint for his upcoming album, I Know I’ve Been Changed, due out October 26. The album coincides with Neville’s 50th year since he cut his first record, and for the project, he cut tracks that focused on New Orleans, faith and music, including gospel songs by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Blind Boys of Alabama.

The album was produced by Joe Henry, who produced Toussaint’s The Bright Mississippi and Toussaint’s collaboration with Elvis Costello, The River in Reverse. Henry presents Neville with a smaller band than he has recently used that includes Dobro player Greg Leisz and the rhythm section from The Bright Mississippi, David Piltch (bass) and Jay Bellerose (drums).

http://www.offbeat.com/2010/08/26/neville-toussaint-collaborate-for-new-album/

[musette_sf]

69. "BURN K-DOE BURN!"

[Bennyboy]

70. VOTE VOTE VOTE!

still 9th. Gonna be close...http://gulf.refresheverything.com/ninelivesproject

[MrScorpio]

72. Jay Electronica

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivU8cmKWskA