16 May 2010

From the Bruce Springsteen with Seeger Sessions Band Tour, "When The Saints Go Marching In"



There is one reason New Orleans can never die, no matter how much oil BP spills around it or Army Corp. of Engineers mistakes flood the region: the spirit of its music.

The concert footage above leaves out a verse Bruce wrote for the end of the song when they played it at Jazzfest in New Orleans four years ago -- when the city was still in the early stages of recovery from the post-Katrina disaster:

2 comments:

TK said...

This was a great moment away from my day. Thanks.

Paullinator said...

Thanks for the reading material - and the research.