Playlist Date & Time: 8/29/2010 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa

 The Katrina Anniversary Show

(Do we exchange king cakes?) 

This is a new holiday-ish day and we New Orleanians don't know what we are supposed to do.  Reminds me of the Gary Larson cartoon where a bunch of sheep mill around with cocktails in hand with a caption; "Oh thank God the border collies are here to liven up this aimless party."   

So there are more TV trucks in my French Quarter neighborhood than a month's worth of Saturday night prostitutes.  But these news-ee guys have a problem, we're ambivalent.  We reached Katrina-saturation a few years ago.  

Today's news teams desperately need a calamity to be relevant.  They are like a situation comedy that's run out of steam so they resort to a clip show like today's Katrina anniversary clips.  

Seems like they've only got relevance if they 

1.  Find,

2.  Regurgitate,

3.  Dramatize or

4.  Invent

calamities.  The latter is easiest, you just need to hyper-dramatize routine processes at such an abstract level that you can read any calamity you want into a relatively innocuous situation.  If everyone suspends their pesky analytical capacity and succumbs to the sleep of reason - we'll begat today's political / news shows.

Today as they're all regurgitating the clips from their Katrina libraries and "updating" the same update stories.  Let's list the basics:  

Bunch o' Houses Built. 

Bunch o' Houses Not Built

Bunch o' Folks Returned ... and Not

Now for the hard hitting reports:

New Orleans Population Changed - make sure you include the words "Black" "Rich" "Hispanic" and "White" but don't analyze any closer than George Bush did during his infamous flyover.

Double the Calamity = Gulf Oil Spill + Katrina - Superbowl  

Musicians or Restaurants Tips Are Down 13.7%

Katrina-related reports New Orleanians are curious about:

Did Ray Nagin get a new gig that pays?

How do we get in on some of that BP money?

Are the cops really gonna get reformed?

Did Ed Blakely trade in that undersized bike for a Smart Car? 

Tonight's show is a musical tribute to the most reported upon city in the nation that ironically is the most mis-understood city in the nation.  They don't get us down here.  Our culture is the story and that is where the lens of reportage should begin and end.  Their mind-set is about consumerism (ads!) and that fits us as well as a shopping center in Orleans Parish.  

Tonight, three hours of music, sound clips and rants about our culture.  Consider it WWOZ's cultural sensitivity training for the puesdo-journalists with pretty faces who's mic and camera privileges should be suspended.  It's not that hard to report from down here - you just have to base the report on us.   (But that's the old way of doing journalism.)  

Send Ellen Degeneres' brother down here - he's got it right: 

Box Score for Tonight

96 Selections over 200 minutes or a paltry

2:1 Selections per minute which is less than 50% of the radio sound barrier of 

1:1 Selection every minute 

10 Television trucks scattered around the Quarter in the usual places

1 Special with Washboard Chaz and Anderson Cooper

2 Clumps of prostitutes at Bourbon and St. Ann instead of my house?

4 Police cars at my house arresting a drunk (and scaring the prostitutes away)

1 Tornado warning at 3am.  (Ride my bike home real fast or do Sam's show?)

12 Calls and e-mails with a surprisingly high sobers-to-drunks ratio (approx. 1:1).  

1 Number of Superbowl wins for New Orleans in 2010

2 Number of oil platforms that blew up since the Superbowl

5 Number of months left before the next Superbowl  

1000 Number of times Ray Nagin started a sentence with "Man,..." 

Song Playlist

Interstitial sound clips in small font

Cara id 0:07 Station ID Cara Dell'Apa

 Beer Party Saturday Night - Harry (The Hipster) … 2:56 Harry "The Hipster" Gibson

Bush Jamie is boring 0:07 George Bush

Here is mr know it all 0:05

Welcome To New Orleans (Galactic _end at 6 se… 0:15

 I Wish I Was In New Orleans 4:54 Small Change Tom Waits

NOLA description with Apes evolved from Hum… 0:15 NOLA Newsreel Planet of the Apes

 Sadie Green (The Vamp Of New Orleans) 2:50 Western Swing & Country Jazz (Disc 2) Roy Newman & His Boys

Doors of the French Quarter 0:33 Jamie

Going to New Orleans <train travel to New Orle… 2:27  George Smith

 Junker Blues 2:43 T Champion Jack Dupree

Early In The Morning 0:49 Various Artists

Papa was a Rascal 2:35 Live Kozy Corner Cafe 1982 James Booker 

Jessie Pratcher & Mattie Gardner & Mary G… 0:50 Sounds Of The South Various Artists

Now You're Down In The Alley <dances nola ha… 2:36 1946-49 Barker, Blue Lu

Shine–Hambone 1:06 Classic Sounds Of New Orleans Shoeshine Boy

 Fort Worth Stomp 2:59 Washboard Rodeo Washboard Rodeo

Alligator Story 0:48 Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy Armstrong, Louis

 Valley of Tears 1:55 Spirit of New Orleans: The Genius of Dave Barth… Domino, Fats

 Witchcraft 2:38 Vocal Groups: Classic Doo-Wop Remastered (B… The Spiders

live girl dead boy _edwards_ 0:13

 Too Late 2:25 Larry Williams & Johnny Watson

accomplishment list 0:24 Edwin Edwards

 Cindy Lou 2:06 Kings Of Swamp Pop Cookie & The Cupcakes

Earl Long Charity is best 0:09

 Scorched 2:38  Varetta Dillard

Earl Long CCC bridge 0:11

 It's Starting To Get To Me Now 2:23 Sweet Soul Queen Of New Orleans: Irma Thoma… Irma Thomas

Earl Long Ind Canal 0:14

What Are You Trying To Do 2:14 45-Imperial 66137 Irma Thomas

 Blackberries! <street vendor> 0:22 Classic Sounds Of New Orleans Dora Bliggen

 Ruler of My Heart 2:36 Saturday Night Fish Fry: New Orleans Funk and … Irma Thomas

 That's It 1:53 Second Time Rockin' Babette Bain & Rene Hall Orch

Best of Donnas mixdown2 0:25

 So Long  2:10 They Call Me The Fat Man: The Legendary Impe… Fats Domino

Dave Jr lying 0:52 Donna

 Sea Cruise 2:45 New Orleans Party Classics Frankie Ford

Charlie Move South 0:51

 See You Later Alligator 2:51 The Chess Story 1947-1975 (1955-1956 Part … Bobby Charles

Donna RR tracks 1:05

 Scoop Scoobie Doobie 2:56 The Allen Toussaint Touch Jessie Hill

Louisiana 2:09 Poet of the Blues Percy Mayfield

 Times Done Changed 1:28 Classic Sounds Of New Orleans Sister Dora Alexander

 Dark Was The Night 0:57 Classic Sounds Of New Orleans Rev. Lewis Jackson And Charlotte Rucell

 Sweet Breeze 2:04  Vernon Green & the Phantoms

 Santa Fee 2:48 Dr Boogie Presents Shim Sham Shimmy Baby Boy Warren

 She's Got A Wobble (When She Walks) 2:08 The Genius Of Dave Bartholomew [Disc 2] James "Sugar Boy" Crawford

Audio Track3 0:08 Panic in the Streets Jamie

 The Music Goes Round and Round 1:55  Paul Gayten

Audio Track17 0:11 Panic in the Streets Jamie

 Professor Longhair Medley: Baldhead / Tipitina 3:42 Classified James Booker

Audio Track22 0:15 Panic in the Streets Jamie

 Down the Road 2:30 Medical School: The Early Sessions of Mac "Dr. J… Roland Stone

 OPP Katrina short 100820 3:16

 Spooky Drums #1 2:25 Classic Sounds Of New Orleans Baby Dodds

 Jur'e 2:18 Blues Costume Party Lynn August

 Grand Bois Zydeco jure 1:59 More Cajun Music & Zydeco Jimmy Peters and Ring Dance Singers (jure)

 The Monkey 2:29 The Very Best Of Dave Bartholemew

 Oh What A Sight 3:12 Brasil: A Century of Song · Bossa Nova Era Oscar Castro-Neves & Imperio Sertano

 At The Animal Ball: (Sic - At The Animal Fair) <… 2:28 1946-49 Barker, Blue Lu

 Overboard 2:27 Chess New Orleans James "Sugar Boy" Crawford

 3 X 7 = 21 2:36 The Genius Of Dave Bartholomew [Disc 1] Jewel King

 Reelin' and Rockin' 2:31  Jimmy McCracklin

what is that_ smells like pig vomit 1 0:06

 Porkchops and Gravy <food pig> 2:23 Man That's Groovy: Early Vocal Groups, 1935-1… Ink Spots

 Born Ten Thousand Years Ago 1:55 Golden Gate - 1937-38 Golden Gate Quartet

 Crying In The Streets 3:22 Sweet Soul Music George Perkins

 Goin' Down South 4:12 Hill Country HooDoo The Jake Leg Stompers

Howdy I'm Uncle fester from next door _w Jerry… 0:03

 Big Guitar 2:36 1958 Owen Bradley

Fox has sunk to a new low 0:03

 Shadow My Baby 2:02 Blue Cat Rockabilly Collection Glenn Barber

There is evil there that doesn't sleep 0:03

 Ooky Ook 2:49 Penguins

kill roguel eviathan 0:03

 A woman A lover A friend 2:38  Jackie Wilson

 Sheeba 2:11  Johnny & the Hurricanes

 Do Me No Wrong 2:25 Rockabilly Gold, Volume 2 Pat Cupp & the Flying Saucers

Martial Arts people are inhaling demon spirits … 0:07 Pat Robertson

 Vampira 3:09 Slippin' In The Paladins

If they ask I wasn't just boobs legs too 0:10

 Don't Stay Out All Night 3:31 Years Since Yesterday Paladins

imavamp 0:08 Vick the Vampire

 Slippin' In 2:40 Slippin' In The Paladins

 Queen of the House  2:18 Jody Miller

 Don't You Feel My Leg 3:02 1946-49 Barker, Blue Lu

 Sea Of Love 2:23 Sea Of Love Phil Phillips & The Twilights

 It Will Stand 2:22  Showmen

 Jam Up Twist 2:45  Tommy Ridgely

 Chicken Shack 1:47  Peppermint Harris

 True Love Travels On A Gravel Road 2:47 Sweet Soul Music Percy Sledge

 I'll Always Love My Mama 6:37 The Philly Sound: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff & T… The Intruders

 True Fine Mama 2:34  Little Julian Herrera & the Tigers

 Sadie Green 3:02 Washboard Rodeo Washboard Rodeo

 I Got To Go 1:59  Peppermint Harris

 Shake My Gate 3:49 John Boutte

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