Saturday, May 9, 2015

Big Easy Saturday Random Ten

I spoke with someone this evening - a barista, in point of fact - who had been away for a while. One of the places she'd been was New Orleans. I've been there too, and found it lovely. I think it's a little hard for a Northerner to get used to how they do things down there, but a Southerner from somewhere else would find it just about as alien. She says there's a lot of construction going on in various parts of the city. Pretty much there would have to be. Katrina isn't something you just get over.


1. Les Baxter - Calcutta*
2. Reading Rainbow - Animals Take Control of Me
3. Yo La Tengo - Song for Mahlia
4. Morphine - Scratch
5. Fitz & the Tantrums - 6am
6. Beth Custer & the Joe Goode Performance Group - Stay Put, Stay Here With Me
7. Mose Allison - Promenade
8. The Kinks - Death of a Clown
9. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
10. Sarah Vaughan - Midnight Sun
* Kind of an odd city to name your zippy bachelor pad music number after, but hey.

2 comments:

susan said...

I'm glad you got to see New Orleans before the hurricane. There were a lot more musicians traveling the countryside after the event.

Nice SR10 from what I can see. I guess back then the name Calcutta sounded pretty exotic. In many ways it still does - black holes notwithstanding. I love that Roxy Music song too and Dave's Death of a Clown.

Ben said...

More wandering musicians. I guess that could be kind of an upside, depending on a few things...

Yeah, it's probably a matter of Calcutta looking exotic--as opposed to destitute--on a map. That was a good Dave Davies song too.