new orleans

[DeeGeMe]

I sort of cringed when I heard she'd written a song for New Orleans. I guess I was thinking it would be sad and depressing but it's an uplifting song and captures what's great about NoLa. Probably my 2nd fav song on the album.

[DarkUponLight]

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but Emmylou Harris's new cd, which came out this week, features a song called "New Orleans" as well. It's track #5 & it's also about surviving Katrina. Doesn't surprise me, cuz Emmylou has a long history of Louisiana songs appearing on her albums (Leaving Louisiana, Crescent City, etc). But I just found it kind of interesting cuz I've always considered her to be the country version of Stevie & follow her career too, just not as closely as I do with Stevie. But, for them both to release new albums a week apart, with a song of the same name at almost the exact same place on their cd's, dealing with the exact same subject matter, it's really kinda freaky, but cool all the same.