'Jaynestown'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Songs about/mentioning NOLA:
No one has mentioned "Mr. Bojangles" at all?
I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison.
It's sad that Steve Goodman is barely remembered nowadays, despite writing this song, "City of New Orleans," and possibly the greatest baseball song ever, "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request."
OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form.
Can we play "Leaving on a Jet Plane?" Also: "Highway to Hell," "Stairway to Heaven" (just to balance things out), and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone."
well, I'm planning to play a couple of TISM songs at my funeral--unless I die before my folks, in which case NSM. Not sure how they'd react to, "I'm On The Drug That Killed River Phoenix" but I know they wouldn't be happy to hear, "I Might Be A Cunt But At Least I'm Not A Fucking Cunt".
OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form.
My grandmother always wanted me to sing her favorite hymn ("Just As I Am") at her funeral. She died when I was 17.
Didn't sing. I was too broken up. Wanted to, but my parents put their feet down.
Fats Domino alive and OK and airlifted out of NO.
More NOLA: "St. James Infirmary" was mentioned on a friend's blog today.
The only song I know I want at my funeral is the Lomax recording of "Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah" as done by Ike Caudill and choir. It's my favorite hymn, only this version is African call-and-response Southern Gospel choir and is utterly, totally haunting. It's on iTunes if anyone wants to sample.
Otherwise... I don't know. I just know there will be a lot of music. And alcohol.
Here's an update on some NOLA musicians.
New Orleans musician Charmaine Neville, since Monday, he tried "not to think the worst." His mother and some friends had planned to wait out the storm, then make a run for a school if conditions worsened. "I know my mom," he said yesterday afternoon. "She's a strong woman." Neville's father, Charles, is a member of the Neville Brothers, whose hits include "Fly Like an Eagle," "A Change Is Gonna Come" and "Ain't No Sunshine."
I'm glad to see that Charmaine's okay - I saw her at Snug Harbor. But I'm sure Steve Miller, Sam Cooke and Bill Withers would be surprised to see their hits attributed to the Neville Brothers.
wrod...it should say "covered such classics as..." or something. There are lots of great covers...it's not a slam.