Today, anyone that reads a newspaper, watches television, or surfs the web will be bombarded by commemorative tributes to the tragedy that happened five years ago. It was a terrible moment in…
Category: LOUISiana
Portland Opens It’s Doors to Displaced New Orleans Musicians
The city of Portland, Oregon demonstrates the type of charity that makes me very, very proud of my Northwest neighbors: As part of our nation’s concern for the recent catastrophes along the…
Get your New Orleans music fix, donate to recovery
I received a nice little shout-out from the Shout! Factory: “In the spirit of recovery, Shout! Factory will be donating all of the profits from sales made from the Shout! Factory website…
More thoughts on LOUISiana
All the eyes of the world are on the demaged gulf coast of LOUISiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Such a terrible tragedy made worse by an ineffective bureacracy. We’ll be talking about this…
RIP: Gatemouth Brown
My condolences go out to the family and friends of Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, who died on Saturday. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, was an extremely versatile musician that played blues, country, jazz, Cajun, and…
Songs for This Week’s Jukebox
This week, it’s hard not to think about Louisiana, Mississippi, and other Gulf areas destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Here’s a few songs that I’ll be playing on my stereo: “The City of…
Predicting the LOUISiana Disaster
Here’s an interesting excerpt from an article in National Geographic, dated October 2004: Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived…
Hurricane Katrina Resources
This is not LOUIE-specific, other than a connection to LOUISiana, but in times of need, I’ll use this blog to share info about good things fellow humans are doing for fellow humans….
LOUISiana flooded, but Fats Domino lives!
Things have been rather hectic at LOUIE central for the past few weeks- construction work, broken video gear, lack of regular internet access for 4 days, and some kind of sinus-cold-flu infection…