Katrina: The Anti-Versary; Re-Define 8/29
September 2, 2009 at 8:32 am
If you think this tragedy is over think again. There are still families out there in corners of this country trying to figure out what they are going to do to get their lives back to some normalcy. There are so many musicians who were well known in New Orleans that are totally unknown where they are now. Imagine building your fanbase or your work base in your workplace and suddenly it all disappears. - Jeff Beninato
Professor Longhair Big Chief
(Big Chief/ 2002)
Dr. John Dream Warrior
(Re-Define 8/29/ 2009)
Johnny Sansone Poor Man’s Paradise
(Re-Define 8/29/ 2009)
John Rankin If I Ever Cease to Love
(Re-Define 8/29/ 2009)
James Andrews One, Two, What You Gonna Do
(Re-Define 8/29/ 2009)
Barry Cowsill Kid
(Re-Define 8/29/ 2009)
Susan Cowsill Who Knows Where the Time Goes
(Re-Define 8/29/ 2009)
Spencer Bohren Long Black Line
(Re-Define 8/29/ 2009)
Twangorama Who Can I Turn To - My Romance
(Re-Define 8/29/ 2009)
note: (a la Moka) remember 2005? New Orleans does, because in many parts of the city people wake up to August 29, 2005 every single day — still. The heart of New Orleans is the soul of the country; their music is a lifeline for millions of people the world over. Though Katrina broke the levees, she did not break their spirit. Tides continue to roll, and somehow the FEMA trailers are becoming as much a part of the city as beignets, brass bands, and Bourbon Street. What happens to a dream deferred? Ask 9th Ward musicians like Jeff Beninato, founder of the New Orleans Musician’s Relief Fund. The fund was started to get instruments back in the hands of local musicians, and in the midst of a stalled government reconstruction effort, NOMRF is catalyzing the grassroots reconstruction effort to revitalize the heart of the city and soul of the country — one string at a time. Re-Define 8/29 is a compilation album featuring local, and national, musicians who’ve come together to redefine Post-Katrina 8/29. A dream deferred is not dead, and neither is New Orleans.
NOMRF
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Download: Re-Define 8/29
sidenote: I started off with Professor Longhair because before Katrina deferred the dream, Big Chief was anthemic Nawlins soul.
image: robholland
hey ss, I can’t stand that picture. :P Enjoy the music a lot.
haha you would have some issue :P i figured it encompassed the “ghosts of musician’s past” vibe, apparently i was wrong — glad you’re digging the list
yes, you were very wrong. That’s a postcard you got from some tourist trap. haa haa.
oh! you got jokes! haha nah, actually i got it from bono’s new orleans musicians relief situation — apparently the photo looked better from behind his purple shades ;o)
I really liked the original picture you posted… the picture and the excerpt was one thing.
The current one, instead, seems a postcard…
I don’t understand why you changed it, if you liked it.
Mad world.
Corrige… were one thing…
ffs jungle. that’s cafe royal in french quarter, new orleans.
come on…. (yes, I was trying to find one with Katrina theme plus french quarter, but they don’t look too good soggy. that one is the best CC picture of french quarter. I swear the oe before looks like a postcard one get across the street from Preservation Hall. Except it has no Louis Armstrong picture on it.)
i’m still partial to my picture — just saying — it had subtext, this pic reminds me of christmas … idk. tis what tis. “ffs” haha i need to add that to my vernacular.
aweee okaayyyy…there …
i’m not a child, sq — don’t feel like you must appease me… buuut, i mean now that you have, i’ve got no complaints haha
you must admit, it’s not terrible — it must’ve grown on you by now
hey! lol … that picture is uuuugleeeeeee a crop of postcard. I hate the composition balance. plus…here, image of preservation hall. The whole set annoys the shit out of me. It’s a bad set up. (see that exit sign, fire extinguisher, and plastic spotlight lamp…)
ffs, why not put disco ball and laser show as well.
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I was going to put this one up. But kinda too vague. not many people know this as piece of new orleans.
no sq the first pic you had was completely all over the place scattered w comp balance. mine worked; but then again, i enjoy the negative space and the subtext of the absence — i notice the significance of what isn’t there. your french quarter had lights and people as if everything is as it was before… completely countering the point, sir. here — let’s find a nice halfway pt between your technicalities and my sentiment … there’s enough room in this quarter for both
i like the bottom one … even if ppl don’t get it, mystery is good — and the ppl that get it, get it. win/win. post it!
originally, I was looking for an image that put people right on old town in quiet afternoon before the horde of tourists show up. When band are practicing on saturday …etc. you know… that orleans feeling. You almost hear the music and have that strange urgency to get some food nice .. (how orleans is remembered..bla bla)
my favorite were
http://www.flickr.com/photos/infrogmation/3086026322/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quitelucid/38344777/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/delgrossodotcom/3746046840/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robh/147897952/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitaldefection/108554840/
and don’t give me ‘negative space’ jibe……it’s preservation hall stage under bad lighting….:P
as long as you keep sending those negative vibes my way i’ll keep sending the negative space jibe yours haha ;o)
pfffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttt………
really? what now … you want the pharmacy?
lol. no that was before you updated the page… I was ready with my pillow and cushion fort and cushion war.
(ok. well. guess I’ll do my post tomorrow instead. gotta go now.)
ps. and for the record. I wooooonnnn……. wooohoooooo.
Wonderful Post and Excellent Photography!
Except…
Katrina did not break the Levees.
The Corps of Engineers built them wrong and they failed below design spec –at Half Load.
That is important in the anti-math.
It Anti-matters.
Thank you,
Editilla
And Adorno & Horkheimer would say we are passive consumers of images…
Love the debate ss/squashed.
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cheers.
sq
looooong blaaaack liiiiine peeeeeew peeeew, stupid nature……always bring the chaos back to us.