Playlist Date & Time: 8/30/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa

 We Accidentally Rebuilt

New Orleans Backwards?

It is Katrina's anniversary and we're happily reading that our 2005 dip in the magical waters of the Gulf has washed away the problems of New Orleans.  Cops are now professional, crime is a statistical problem, politicians are philosopher-kings, and the three quality of life musketeers; health, education and the economy are all for ... us?  

Disregard the boosterism formula in the Katrina anniversary press.   You I know the truth, we rebuilt backwards.  Damn it.  Even with our great Louisiana educations, we still read the master plan(s) from right to left.      

Tonight's musical sets feature plenty of New Orleans music and topics such as hunting (I like Elmer Fudd's sound), sex with aliens (Lou Dobbs' nightmare), swamps (on the fourth year anniversary of their visit to the city) and Mickey Baker - the guitar powerhouse behind Mickey and Silvia.  

And our first set of music and interstitials is the "Oh-cripes-we-rebuilt-it-as-badly-as-before-the-storm" set.  

Box Score

(For Those Who Missed the Show) 

104 Selections including:

 66 Songs of which only

   2 Were longer than three minutes.  (Concentrated artistry are songs in the 1:00 to 2:30 range.  Edit yourself!) 

 38 Interstitials (those few seconds of dialog between songs)

   1 The low number of prostitutes prowling around my house after the show 

   2 Number of people wearing pajamas in the studio after my show and

   1 Person not wearing a pajama top while running the board which lead to  

   7 Photos I took of Sam (because nobody would believe me without them).  Oh yeah back to the music: 

   8 Goofy musical and interstitial themes including:

Sex with aliens (not the north south types but the less cowering, above the border, flying saucer types who's first act will be to put Lou Dobbs on a dog leash) 

New Orleans, we accidentally rebuilt it all wrong again!

The emotional but cheesy progression to a cosmetic surgery / breast augmentation decision.

Voices from behind the potato chip rack at the Kwicky Mart

Hunting wabbits and chicken hawks

UFOs and hot rod songs always sound great when played together

Blues screamers and

The side musicians - Rene Hall and Mickey Baker 

Interstitials by;

Al Scramuzza, Frankie and Johnny's Furniture, Earl Long, Tom Arnold, Gumby, George Bush, Rocket J. Squirrel, me, Sandra Wheeler Hester, Homer Simpson, Chicken Hawk Jr., Foghorn Leghorn, Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny, Willie the Groundskeeper and the Screaming Meemees From Planet X. 

Finally, the web link of the week is a documentary about Alan Able - the greatest media trickster of all time:

 http://www.hulu.com/watch/56337/abel-raises-cain

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