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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 3/4/2025: NOLA-Adjacent Songs [1]

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Date: 2025-03-04

Mary Dawson Elwell: A Quiet Hour (1942)

Good evening, Kibitzers! Happy Mardi Gras!

I am certainly in better shape than I was last Tuesday, when you’ll recall I had fallen down the stairs and broken 10 ribs. I am not what I’d call well, but I am better. Many thanks to those who have made inquiries!

Also, I’m aware that Krasnov is planning to bark at Congress sometime this evening; I have no plan to listen, but you are welcome to rant about it in here if it makes you feel better. (See end of diary for alt things to watch.) Everybody : no yelling at each other, though! Many of us come in here to avoid the outer blog, which you may have noticed currently contains a lot of ugly conflict about assigning blame. We don’t want our friends to have to avoid this place too.

Finally, as of Monday night, looks like the whole eastern half of the country is going to be having a huge windstorm on Tuesday, so, as Ryan Hall says, “Y’all watch out!” Nashville is mentioned specifically in the 60-70-mph-wind-gust category.

Anyway, since I write on Tuesdays, I always get Mardi Gras. I don’t always do anything with it — I am certainly no expert. And yet, it seems wrong to just ignore it. I thought maybe some New Orleans-adjacent songs would be the thing this time. Some just have a New Orleans mention in the lyrics or title, while some are actually associated with the city and/or Mardi Gras. All are entertaining, at least to me, so here they are in the hope you’ll like them too.

Trombone Shorty: St. James Infirmary Blues (In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues, 2012). [3:21]

Steve Goodman: City Of New Orleans (live in Chicago 1970). At the time of this performance, Goodman had recently learned he had leukemia, and had responded by dropping out of college to pursue music full-time. [3:56]

Labelle: Lady Marmalade (Dutch TV show TopPop, 1974). [3:52]

The Allman Brothers Band: Ramblin' Man (Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 1972). [5:56]

Playing For Change, featuring Dr. John, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, and Ivan Neville and other NOLA stars: Iko Iko. (Posted in 2021 in memory of Dr. John (1941-2019)). [4:07]

Fats Domino: Walkin’ to New Orleans (Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, ca. 1985). [2:20]

Dire Straits: Planet of New Orleans (On the Night 1993 concert video). [10:36]

Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong: (Do You Know What It Means To Miss) New Orleans (Film New Orleans, 1947). [2:00]

Gary U.S. Bonds with Jeff Beck: New Orleans (Jeff Beck Honors Les Paul, Iridium Jazz Club, New York, 2010). Full personnel on YouTube page. [4:19]

The Neville Brothers: It Feels Like Rain (live at Municipal Auditorium New Orleans, 1991). [5:36]

Bobby Hackett and Jack Teagarden: New Orleans (Coast Concert album, 1955). There are obviously many songs with this title; this is the Hoagy Carmichael one, on a seminal album of Dixieland jazz. Full personnel on YouTube page, if you can’t read those fast-rolling credits onscreen. [2:57]

The Doobie Brothers: Toulouse Street (Beacon Theater, New York, 2018). [3:23]

Soloists Jill Scott, Tessanne Chin, Melissa Etheridge, Patti Labelle, Janelle Monáe, Ariana Grande, plus the Obamas rocking in the front row: Proud Mary (In Performance at the White House: Women Of Soul, 2014). [6:49]

Mumford & Sons, featuring Jon Batiste, Celisse, and Trombone Shorty: House Of The Rising Sun (live at 2023 New Orleans Jazz Fest). [7:49]

Alternative watching :

For the Black Star Network, host Roland S. Martin “will Martin’s YouTube channel. Source: go live to Philadelphia where Rev. Dr. William Barber will deliver the State of OUR Union. Live coverage begins at 7 pm EST” at. Source: Bluesky

At The Contrarian, Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen host an “alternative State of the Union” starting at 8:45 pm ET. The Contrarian Substack is here. And here is their YouTube channel. I have no idea, since I currently see no trace of this except this notice (left) on Instagram, whether anyone can watch it, or if you have to be a free or paid subscriber, or even if it’s on YouTube or has to be accessed from the Substack. Edits if I find out more; tell us if you know.







As always, if you have more songs to add, the thread is yours!

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