Tag: new-orleans
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Not bicycling to Susan Cowswill, November 22, 2024
In my previous post I had bemoaned over-enthusiasm towards the most famous musical talents while not appreciating the lesser known. Susan Cowsill? Taylor Swift she is not. The youngest member of the 1960’s family band The Cowsills, she has been a performer for nearly sixty years. She has played with her five older brothers, alone,…
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Bayou Country; March 29-30, 2024
Born on the Bayou is a magnificent song from 1969 on Creedence Clearwater Revival’s second album Bayou Country. It is the flip side of the big selling 45 single Proud Mary. The only problem, which is maybe not a problem, is that having your facts straight is not always necessary to create great art. Creedence…
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Two trips to Gretna LA and beyond, only one by bicycle; Dec. 30, 2023 and Jan. 2, 2024
The entire time I have lived in New Orleans, both back in the 1980’s and also recently, I had snobbily dismissed almost everything that lay “across the river” despite the fact hundreds of thousands live Over There. The Mississippi River in New Orleans is wide and threateningly deep with a strong current. It seems the wild beast. …
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