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Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast
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Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075597993424
Label: Nonesuch
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Nonesuch
Release Date: 2005-12-06
Studio: Nonesuch
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Nonesuch Records is releasing a benefit album of newly recorded songs featuring artists from the New Orleans music community – across a wide variety of styles – to document the depth, richness and profound musicality of that unique city. Funds from the sale of the record, titled Our New Orleans, will be donated to Habitat For Humanity to aid those affected by the recent Hurricane Katrina disaster. A number of New Orleans’ best known musicians have been asked to record songs that are integral to their lives and that express their feelings about the city and the recent events there. Sessions began in New York on September 20, with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Wild Magnolias recording at Clinton Studios. Later the same day and on September 21, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band recorded at New York’s Avatar Studios. Further sessions in October included Dr. John, Buckwheat Zydeco, and Randy Newman, among others. Nonesuch’s parent company – Warner Bros. Records – is donating all of the production costs for this record, as part of the Warner Music Group’s larger efforts on behalf of the hurricane victims. Many others involved in the project are also generously donating their time and services.
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Summary: Nice way to send support to New Orleans area
Comment: After visiting New Orleans recently I have tried to help the area in any way I can. Buying this great cd with loads of great tunes is one small way I can help, and it is so worth it, the music is fabulous!!
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Summary: Goin' home to New Orleans
Comment: This was not of very good quality and the performers (?) did not do justice to the honoree.
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Summary: Still best post-Katrina album
Comment: two-and-a-half years after the "event" and this music is the best story of what we lost.
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Summary: Emotionally honest lament for loss, but beautiful signs of hope
Comment: Yes, there is a melancholy, tragic quality to this collection. The emotional honesty and pain of the artists, all of whom experienced great personal loss in Katrina, is almost unbearable in places. And yet there is a toughness, a fierce determination to rise again, that shows through. New Orleans, America's great city of celebration, is too deep and rich to simply party as an escape from the agony. This music, like this city, confronts the pain honestly, but in the end if certain it will survive. Especially beautiful is when this exercise takes on a spiritual cast, as the singers lay their burdens down at the feet of the Lord and trust in his goodness.
As one who lives in New Orleans and is working with Katrina victims on a daily basis, this all rings very true.
The sad but hopeful tone of Allen Toussaint "Yes We Can Can," Davell Crawford "Gather By the River" is just beyond description. Two of the lovliest songs I have ever heard. Beausoleil "L'ouragon" and Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927" are also highlights. But frankly there isn't a week song on the disc. Certainly my favorite album of the year.
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Summary: Misrated
Comment: This is a fantastic CD and it really is a shame that the rating is brought down by someone who praises it in words but can't correct a mistaken one-star rating. Fantastic music, although the person who gave it two stars does have a point, it does lack the vibrant upbeat music New Orleans is famous for, even in mourning. All I can say is this was NOT the funeral. It was merely the bedside vigil at the start of a long recovery.
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