Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast

I tried last winter to order numerous things at Amazon with no success and had to buy them elsewhere and send. I had to go to Border's Books this Fall to order an out of print book (only available through Amazon)because once again I could not move my shopping basket through the purchase at Amazon on-line but salesman did it for me. Very frustrating!!! And I sent an email to Amazon's "contact us" but got no response. Thanks. The CD was for my son so I have not heard it. I would have bought more on several occasions but was not able to finish the purchases. Thanks for asking.

After visiting New Orleans recently I have tried to help the area in any way I can. Buying this great cd with loads of great tunes is one small way I can help, and it is so worth it, the music is fabulous!!

This was not of very good quality and the performers (?) did not do justice to the honoree.

two-and-a-half years after the "event" and this music is the best story of what we lost.

Yes, there is a melancholy, tragic quality to this collection. The emotional honesty and pain of the artists, all of whom experienced great personal loss in Katrina, is almost unbearable in places. And yet there is a toughness, a fierce determination to rise again, that shows through. New Orleans, America's great city of celebration, is too deep and rich to simply party as an escape from the agony. This music, like this city, confronts the pain honestly, but in the end if certain it will survive. Especially beautiful is when this exercise takes on a spiritual cast, as the singers lay their burdens down at the feet of the Lord and trust in his goodness.

As one who lives in New Orleans and is working with Katrina victims on a daily basis, this all rings very true.

The sad but hopeful tone of Allen Toussaint "Yes We Can Can," Davell Crawford "Gather By the River" is just beyond description. Two of the lovliest songs I have ever heard. Beausoleil "L'ouragon" and Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927" are also highlights. But frankly there isn't a week song on the disc. Certainly my favorite album of the year.