Marking the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans and the resulting devastation caused by it and the floodwall collapse, not only in Louisiana, but Mississippi and Alabama, too. Show starts off with bands playing locally over the weekend, then music related to Katrina. www.wrir.org/index.php?/blog/entry/988
This program airs live every Friday 9-11 PM Eastern US time on www.wrir.org, WRIR 97.3 FM in Richmond, VA
Meat Beat Manifesto - United Nations
Paul Ivey - Skinless [from his upcoming CD "This is the Hovercraft"] [tonight at Strange Matter]
Point Blank - Bittersweet Victory [Monday at Banditos]
Synthetic Nightmare - Azi Dehaka [Monday at Fallout] Low on Sanity - Before I Drown [Monday at Fallout]
Louis Armstrong - Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans Muddy Waters - Baby Please Don't Go (Down to New Orleans) Fats Domino - Walking to New Orleans
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya [request -- 1st :30 anyway!] Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras [request] Aaron Neville - Hercules The Howletts - Mardi Gras Mambo
Lena Horne - Stormy Weather Phil Harris - St. James Infirmary Son House - Death Letter Diamanda Galas - See That My Grave is Kept Clean Lydia Lunch & Rowland S. Howard - In My Time of Dying
Clarence Carter - Patches ["born & raised down in Alabama"] Ray Charles - Alabamy Bound Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Stars Fell on Alabama
Wynton Marsalis - Cherokee [request] Meters - Cissy Strut Louis Armstrong - Basin Street Blues Louisiana Red - Louisiana Blues
Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddamn Fats Domino - Jambalaya (On the Bayou) Deacon John - Going Back to New Orleans