Wednesday, May 30, 2007

VIDEO: New Orleans 20 Months After Katrina

The music is "Monday Night In New Orleans" by Kermit Ruffins (and The Barbeque Swingers):

Alan Breslauer: "A short compilation of video footage I took when visiting New Orleans earlier this month. While some parts of the city have made significant progress, the poorer and lower situated areas like the Lower 9th Ward remain devastated. Yet, the most difficult part for me was not viewing the destruction but witnessing the lack of activity, building, people, hope. All were conspicuously absent. . . "

"The music is "Monday Night In New Orleans" by Kermit Ruffins (and The Barbeque Swingers) who, for my money, is the best living musician in the city."

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