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		After the Storm

		September 7th, 2005 ~ American Routes host Nick Spitzer takes you in story and song to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Nick blends music and commentary that describes the place of storms and floods in the history and culture of the city and region. Featured are classic blues about broken levees and broken hearts, celebratory jazz funerals and memories of the city in song. Artists include Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Fats Domino and Randy Newman, among others. Also tales of hurricanes past in Cajun music and a visit with the leader of a Cajun rescue flotilla, Lafayette, LA public radio station manager Dave Spizale. Listen To Hour 1 Listen To Hour 2 Share This

Hour One		Hour Two		Helpful Links
Open Bed: Minor Tipitina Allen Toussaint American Routes recording, Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1, Nonesuch Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Mahalia Jackson Essential Mahalia Jackson, Sony Down by the Riverside Snooks Eaglin Country Boy in New Orleans, Arhoolie When the Levee Breaks Memphis Minnie Memphis Minnie: Queen of the Blues, Columbia It's Raining Irma Thomas Sweet Soul Queen of New Orleans: The Irma Thomas Collection, Razor & Tie Rainin' in My Heart Slim Harpo Raining in My Heart, Excello Instrumental: Mes Enfants/My Children Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys Happytown, Rounder INTERVIEW: Dave Spizale Listen River's Gonna Go Gator Beat River's Gonna Go, Globe Higher Ground Stevie Wonder Innervisions, Motown To the River Smiley Lewis Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family Rivers of Babylon Melodians The Harder They Come, Island Dear Old Southland Dr. John N'Awlinz Dis Dat or D'udda, Blue Note The Lost Souls (Of Southern Louisiana) Dirty Dozen Brass Band Open Up: Whatcha Gonna Do For the Rest of Your Life, Columbia End Bed: Minor Tipitina Allen Toussaint American Routes recording,		Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet Blue Horizon: The Sidney Bechet Story, Proper Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven Back Water Blues Bessie Smith The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3, Columbia/Legacy Stormy Weather Phil Phillips Eddie's House of Hits: The Story of Goldband Records, Ace Louisiana Percy Mayfield Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty Instrumental: L'Ouragon Beausoleil La Danse de la Vie, Rhino L'annee de Cinquante Sept Alex Broussard The Best of La Louisiane Records, La Louisiane Grand Chenier Bluerunners Le Grand Bleu, Louisiana Red Hot Hurricane Bobby and the Rockers Can't Stop Rockin', Bobby and the Rockers The Lakes of the Ponchartrain Jim Smoak & the Louisiana Honeydrippers Bayou Bluegrass, Arhoolie Box of Rain Grateful Dead American Beauty, Warner Brothers Instrumental: Blues in My Sleep James Cotton Deep in the Blues, Verve Death Letter Cassandra Wilson New Moon Daughter, Blue Note When the Saints Go Marching In Helen Humes 2005 Southern Music CD, Oxford American Walking to New Orleans Fats Domino The Best of Fats Domino, EMI Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman Good Old Boys, Warner Bros. End Bed: Down by the Riverside Sam Morgan's Jazz Band Recorded in New Orleans, 1925-1928, Jazz Oracle

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& the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation