Our New Orleans (Expanded Edition) Various Artists - A Benefit Album

• 1 Yes We Can Can 04:15
• 2 World I Never Made 04:01
• 3 Back Water Blues 03:31
• 4 Gather by the River 03:40
• 5 Cryin' in the Streets 08:43
• 6 Canal Street Blues 03:40
• 7 Brother John Is Gone / Herc-Jolly-John 05:31
• 8 When the Saints Go Marching In 02:18
• 9 My Feet Can't Fail Me Now 04:38
• 10 Tou' les jours c'est pas la meme (Every Day Is Not the Same) 03:59
• 11 L'ouragon (The Hurricane) 03:58
• 12 Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans 02:42
• 13 Prayer for New Orleans 02:14
• 14 What a Wonderful World (feat. Donald Harrison) 03:50
• 15 Tipitina and Me 02:52
• 16 Louisiana 1927 (with Members of the New York Philharmonic) 03:05
• 17 Do You Know What It Means 03:40
• 18 Let's Work Together 03:13
• 19 Crescent City Serenade 05:26
• 20 Walking By the River 03:47
• 21 Do You Know What It Means (feat. Donald Harrison) 03:26
• Total Runtime 01:22:29

Info for Our New Orleans (Expanded Edition)

Newly remastered! Originally released to benefit Habitat for Humanity’s post-Hurricane Katrina rebuilding effort, Nonesuch releases a remastered, special edition of the 2005 record Our New Orleans for the first time on HIGHRESAUDIO. The two-album set includes five previously unreleased tracks: ‘Do You Know What It Means’, by Davell Crawford; ‘Let's Work Together’, by Buckwheat Zydeco and Ry Cooder; ‘Crescent City Serenade’, by Dr. Michael White; ‘Walking By the River’, by Dr. John; and ‘Do You Know What It Means’, by The Wardell Quezergue Orchestra featuring Donald Harrison.

For Our New Orleans, many of the Crescent City’s best-known musicians recorded songs that are integral to their lives and that express their feelings about the city and the trauma of Katrina. The album was made swiftly and simply, over the course of a month, in one-day sessions across the country. Nick Spitzer, host of public radio’s New Orleans–based American Routes, contributed liner notes to the record, as did Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Ford, also a Crescent City resident. Other producers who made enormous contributions include Mark Bingham, Ry Cooder, Joel and Adam Dorn, Steve Epstein, Joe Henry, Doug Petty, Matt Sakakeeny, and Hal Willner.

Nonesuch President David Bither recalls, “What was most remarkable to me was the immediate response of the musicians. Many were in New Orleans when Katrina struck. Many lost everything they owned including even the musical instruments that are their livelihood. Yet they responded within days to the question of whether they might participate in this project. The emotion and the power of Our New Orleans come both from their anguish and from their incredible generosity.”

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