[Dixielandjazz] Louisiana 1927

[David Richoux]

I sent Craig this link - found after an Internet search on the subject  
< "Louisiana 1927" sheet music >

http://www.guitartabs.cc/forum/index.php?showtopic=141350&mode=linear   
scroll down a bit.

anyway, as good as that song is (I closed my radio show with it the 
first week of Katrina ) - I think "When The Levee Breaks" by Memphis 
Minnie McCoy  actually written soon after the 1927 Flood is also a good 
one to revive. (not the version by Led Zepplin ;-)

Also worth a reposting is information about this book (I have ordered a 
copy and expect it soon...)
http://tinyurl.com/9dpnk  RISING TIDE: THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 
1927 AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA by John M. Barry

> When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. 
> Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating 
> the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left 
> homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry 
> expertly details in Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 
> and How It Changed America, some calamities transform much more than 
> the landscape.
> While tracing the history of the nation's most destructive natural 
> disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the 
> flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed 
> the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, 
> helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting the 
> political alliances of many blacks in the process. An absorbing 
> account of a little-known, yet monumental event in American history, 
> Rising Tide reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than 
> the swollen river itself.

Dave Richoux


On Sep 17, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Craig I. Johnson wrote:

>
> "Louisiana 1927"
>
> Does anyone have a lead sheet or any music for this tune?
> It sounds like it would fit nicely into one of our benefit concerts.
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
> On 9/17/2005 11:39:45 AM, Thompson (rebecca.e.thompson at verizon.net) 
> wrote:
>> If you want to hear "Louisiana 1927", you can go to the website of
>> Prairie
>> Home Companion and select listen to Segment 1.
>>
>> http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2005/09/03/
>>
>> Dirty Dozen also appeared on that show.
>>
>> Rebecca Thompson
>> Flower Mound, TX