Dr. John - City That Care Forgot
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Artist: Dr. JohnEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Music Label: 429 Records
Soundtracks:
- Keep on Goin'
- Time for a Change - Featuring Eric Clapton
- Promises, Promises - Featuring Willie Nelson
- You Might Be Surprised
- Dream Warrior
- Black Gold
- We Gettin' There - Featuring Terence Blanchard
- Stripped Away - Featuring Eric Clapton
- Say Whut?
- My People Need a Second Line Featuring James "12" Andrews and Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews
- Land Grab - Featuring Terence Blanchard
- City That Care Forgot - Featuring Eric Clapton and Ani DiFranco
- Save Our Wetlands - Featuring Terrance Simien
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Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Ani Difranco and Terence Blanchard join Dr. John and the Lower 911 in this musical paean to Dr. John's beloved New Orleans. This powerful new recording features stirring and thought-provoking songs about the post-Katrina crises in the ravaged jewel of the American South, including "City That Care Forgot," "Time for a Change," "Promises, Promises," "We Gettin' There" and many more.Few protest albums have the percolating groove appeal of Dr. John?s City That Care Forgot. If not for lyrics like "the road to the White House, paved with lies" the song "Promises, Promises" would be a typically chipper New Orleans second-line strut. And "You Might Be Surprised" sounds like the kind of horn-and-strings-colored blues that has always been part of the piano giant?s repertoire -- until its darker hues come through in the lines "life is a near death experience/Hell is right here on this great big Earth." Hurricane Katrina?s devastation of Dr. John?s beloved hometown and the following years of neglect sparked these 13 angry songs. The government, insurance companies and developers, and still-lingering institutional racism take a whooping with help from Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Terence Blanchard, Ani DiFranco, and Terrance Simien in cameo appearances. The zenith is a suite -- "Dream Warrior," "Black Gold," "We Getting There" -- whose brooding imagery, funky keyboards, Latin percussion, and dramatic horns recall the great Blaxploitation movie music of the ?70s. On the flip side "My People Need a Second Line" speaks to the resilience of New Orleans culture, holding threads of hope bright as the trilling of Dr. John?s piano. -- Ted Drozdowski
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