Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Susan Cowsill's "Crescent City Snow"
Today, I received the following email from Georgianne, the woman who gave me my 15 minutes of fame when she wrote about the "Gumbo Granny" at the Huffington Post:
Hi Mimi,
I am back north and had whirlwind video production to finish that you may enjoy. We are trying to get the message across about South LA recovery. This is my good friend, Susan Cowsill, of the famous Cowsill family. She is fearless advocate of South Louisiana..her brother Barry was killed in Katrina. Video was produced right down the road from you in Gray.
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Wanna plug the video?
Nice Christmas message, I think for Louisiana.
Love
GN
Georgianne, I'm pleased to give the video a plug from my humble blog. From YouTube for your watching and listening pleasure.
If you like the song, you can buy it here.
The song and the album from which it was taken, Feeder Bands On the Run, was produced by The Carrollton Station Foundation in New Orleans:
The purpose of the Carrollton Station Foundation is to provide financial assistance to the musicians of New Orleans who have been adversely affected by the recent hurricanes of 2005.
The intention is to rebuild the music community of the City Of New Orleans by offering the money to said musicians to replace the equipment and instruments that have been lost to these storms.
Our method of raising money for this purpose is to sell a CD that is a compilation of songs that were written and performed by New Orleans singer/songwriters and musicians about the city and the devastation it has sustained in the wake of these recent events.
Carrollton Station is "an authentic New Orleans bar" which hosts live music from local musicians every weekend and serves over 50 varieties of beer, both domestic and imported. What more do you want?
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Thank you SO much for this video and information!
ReplyDeleteHF, you're welcome. A post like this is always a labor of love.
ReplyDeleteI think Mimi will be my lagniappe connection for NOLA! I will sneak in the fact that the New Orleans music community is sponsoring a songwriters workshop for free on December 6. Susan Cowsill and others will be there.www.myspace.com/neworleanssongwritersfestival
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That was amazing - thanks to GN and to you for bringing this to us.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful tribute to New Orleans and southern Louisiana.
ReplyDeleteHaving been there this summer helps me see and hear this with different eyes and ears.
Thanks so much, GN and GM.
Oh, that was just beautiful. I've been to some of those places... me and Mr. PJ when we were young and free.
ReplyDelete((((Mimi))))
Glad y'all liked it. Oh, to be young and free again! Much better than being old and relatively free, but I'll take what I can get.
ReplyDeleteyeah but you have a cool tattoo!
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Do you remember Christmas of 2004? New Orleans had a white Christmas that year, And we joked that perhaps hell had frozen over, but what excitement and wonder that brought, had NOLA ever had a white Christmas before? My friend thought that she might have remembered a few flakes falling back when she was in grade school but certainly not on Christmas.
ReplyDeleteBy the first of September that next year we knew that hell had not frozen over, it had just been gathering power for the late summer to come. It took close to a year for my friends to gut and rebuild their house and they swear if they ever see a snowflake on Christmas again, they're going to pack up and run and get a few months jump on the surely gathering furies.
Which has nothing to do with anything, other than this beautiful song reminds me of that Christmas when it snowed and we thought hell had surely frozen over.
Georgianne, thanks, love.
ReplyDeleteTheJanet, I remember. I have snow pictures from here in Thibodaux, too. The snowfall did not last long, so it was more a whitish Christmas than a truly white Christmas. Was it a portent?
I think it might have been a portent. Or at least a sign the weather patterns were so wacked out there was no telling what might happen next. Then again... yeah, it was a portent.
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