The City of New Orleans – Willie Nelson
Slide show based upon “The City of New Orleans”, Willie Nelson rendition.
The City of New Orleans – Lyrics
Ridin’ on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central, Monday mornin’ rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
All along the south-bound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
And rolls along past houses, farms and fields
Passin’ trains that have no names
And freight yards full of old black men
And the grave-yards of the rusted automobiles
Good morning America, how are you?
Say don’t you know me, I’m your native son
I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans
And I’ll be gone five-hundred miles when the day is done
Dealin’ cards with the old men in the club car
Penny a point ain’t no one keepin’ score
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels grumblin’ ‘neath the floor
And the sons of Pullman porters, and the sons of engineers
Ride their father’s magic carpet made of steel
Mothers with their babes asleep, rockin’ to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
Night time on the City of New Orleans
Changin’ cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Halfway home, we’ll be there by mornin’
Thru the Mississippi darkness rollin’ down to the sea
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain’t heard the news
The conductor sings his songs again
The passengers will please refrain
This train has got the disappearin’ railroad blues.
Duration : 0:4:50
Just what the title says.Cynthia Sayer Live in Chautauqua: You Are My Sunshine
Cynthia Sayer’s Sparks Fly Quintet (Cynthia on plectrum banjo and vocals, Sara Caswell on violin, John Allred on trombone, Mike Weatherly on bass and vocals and Larry Eagle on drums) play “You Are My Sunshine” (New Orleans style) at the Chautauqua Institution in western NY, 24 August 2010.
Duration : 0:4:32
BP Blocking Media Access? New Orleans interview
wdsutv — BP Blocking Media Access? Great interview from New Orleans TV station wdsu tv.
Copyright wdsutv New Orleans 2010
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Duration : 0:3:21
Wild Wayne TV presents Kermit Ruffins Live at Vaughan's in New Orleans
Famous trumpet player and Satchmo disciple Kermit Ruffins performs live at Vaughan's in the heart of New Orleans' Bywater. Brought to you by wildwaynetv.com
Duration : 11 min 1 sec
New Orleans Treme and Google Fiber
Kudos to John Goodman and everyone involved in the “Treme’” project they are really doing an awesome job of promoting New Orleans- the city, the people, the music, and the Louisiana film industry. I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to be an extra on the set of Treme’. I am even more excited about the future of New Orleans and Louisiana.
Catch the premiere of HBO’s Treme’ on April 11th.
By Sharon Denise Talbot
Bring Google fiber to New Orleans from Andrew Larimer on Vimeo.
New Orleans – My Journey Contest Video for Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet author Tom Downs loves New Orleans’ soulful, saucy and eccentric nature. Located as far South as geogrpahically possible in the USA, it’s only mildly American in flavour, more a gumbo of French, Carribbean and African American. Tourists might flock to Bourbon Street’s non-stop carnival but the whole city really knows how to have a great time.
Produced by Lonely Planet.
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Duration : 0:2:41
City of New Orleans
This is a video dedicated to the Illinois Central’s most famous daytime train. It mostly contains footage of MSTS, but there is a clip or two of TRS2006 and an excursion train me & dad followed to Cookeville back in October of 2005. Enjoy!
ONE YEAR! ONE YEAR OF MY MOST POPULAR VIDEO EVER!!!! THANK YOU ALL!!!!!
Duration : 0:4:38
NOFD In Need Of Smoke Detector Sponsors
The New Orleans Fire Department is in need of sponsors to support the smoke detector program.
Duration : 0:2:12
Magazine: Shaking It to New Orleans Bounce – nytimes.com/video
New Orleans Bounce
New Orleans Bounce is a raunchy, local hip-hop style that developed in the 1990s but is only now escaping its hometown with the help of some unlikely stars. Related Article: nyti.ms
Vince Vance’s music video, I am New Orleans, is a musical collage of sights and sounds of the city released for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Vance, who has lived in New Orleans for most of his life attempts to honor the city and showcase its beauty and its uniqueness. Read and watch more on Bayobuzz.com
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New Orleans Bounce music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music which is said to have originated as early as the late 1980s, but is typically believed to have begun with the 1991 single “Where Dey At” by MC T.Tucker and DJ Irv. A highly influential cover of “Where Dey At” was also released by DJ Jimi in 1992.
New Orleans Bounce – Structure
New Orleans Bounce is characterized by call and response style party and Mardi Gras Indian chants and dance call-outs that are frequently hyper sexual.
These chants and call-outs are typically sung over the “Triggerman beat,” which is sampled from the songs “Drag Rap” by the Showboys, “Brown Beat” by Cameron Paul, and also Derek B’s “Rock The Beat”.The sound of bounce has primarily been shaped by the recycling and imitation of the “Drag Rap” sample: its opening chromatic tics, the intermittent shouting of the word “break,” the use of whistling as an instrumental element (as occurs in the bridge), the vocoded “drag rap” vocals and its brief and repetitive melody and quick beat (which were produced with use of synthesizers and drum machines and are easily sampled or reproduced using like-sounding elements).
New Orleans Bounce – Influence
The genre maintains widespread popularity in New Orleans, LA and the southern United States and has a more limited following outside of the Deep South. Throughout this decade, the Take Fo’ record label has dominated the genre with artists such as DJ Jubilee, Choppa, Baby Boy, Lady Unique, Da’ Sha Ra’ and Willie Puckett. Overtly queer “sissy bounce” or “sissy rap” performers such as Katey Red, Big Freedia and Sissy Nobby have also made significant contributions.
Like crunk, Miami bass, Baltimore club and Juke music, bounce is a highly regional form of urban dance music. Nevertheless, bounce has influenced a variety of other rap subgenres and even emerged in the mainstream. Atlanta’s crunk artists, such as Lil’ Jon and the Ying Yang Twins, frequently incorporate bounce chants into their music (such as, “shake that thing like a salt shaker”) and slang (such as, “twerk”).Mississippi native David Banner’s hit “Like A Pimp” is constructed around a screwed up sample of the “Triggerman” beat. The mixtapes of Three 6 Mafia’s DJ Paul also prominently feature traditional bounce sampling. DJ Paul, a native of Memphis, TN, has, in fact, been one of the most prominent purveyors of bounce outside of Louisiana, having incorporated its features into tracks produced for La Chat, Gangsta Boo and his own group, Three 6 Mafia. Another significant mainstream record influenced by bounce music was Beyoncé’s 2007 release “Get Me Bodied”.
Perhaps the most well known majordomo of New Orleans Bounce music has been Cash Money Records and their former in-house producer Mannie Fresh. Mannie Fresh began producing for MC Gregory D in the late 1980s, but in the early 1990s was signed to Cash Money and produced all of their albums. After Cash Money signed a national distribution deal with Universal Records in 1998, the label’s music began to reach much wider audiences. The label’s Hot Boys (Juvenile, B.G., Lil Wayne, and Turk) and Big Tymers (Mannie Fresh and Baby) released platinum albums and had several nationally charting hits using the bounce style. This was the genre’s first major mainstream exposure.
In 2010, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans featured an exhibition entitled “Where They At: New Orleans Hip-Hop and Bounce in Words and Pictures”, examining bounce’s origins, development, and influence.
