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it's an addictive so once experienced on its home turf the award and gets under your skin that it can go back again but suddenly that group is here and that other music city nashville nina nina blues master anders osborne explains utah veteran composer arranger rich wilson of the micro is brass band solos on trombone two guys from a band called jews drummer aaron lambert and bassist dave jordan drive the rhythm section and seated in a trance and the congress is big chief smiley writes a genuine mardi gras indian chief drummer aaron lambert says that this ad hoc abandon support group takes its name from the new orleans area code reply and other than any father forever then that when you are right now and so

they're not in addition to you know try to make it work for us we're hoping to become successful enough that will be able to to a contributor the new orleans musician hurricane relief fund is a fund that with us started out by the act that's ever conservation alone and it's all towards musicians not at all but everybody that made a living as musicians like at lambert the french quarter native whose uncle founded the famous preservation hall in nineteen sixty one called bitchy smiley rick's new orleans world he's toured with dr john other greats this night ricks is wearing a tropical shirt and ball cap instead of the ornate feathered cost and he wears a mardi gras parades he says he's deeply concerned about a unique culture it's been five years simon says is that it

bass player dave jordan says those community ties are needed now more than ever is planned on the lawn or they leave you know and now it's like jordan fled in advance of the storm with his wife their seven year old son and her dog we got computers other honest or certainly where the musicians is one of these questions and so they've ever be together databases in the found out that was still something we don't necessarily know where they always know and then the ones are closer too obviously we know exactly where they are your bad right now it's broken up because my guitar players

instead of a player standing that ruling mean he's got a daughter is here this is way beyond that you know we our colleague in the military jordan's benghazi has been touring so they'll regroup and hit the road at some point but he expects to keep his son in nashville schools this year until the infrastructure is back to normal in orleans leonard says there are at least a dozen big easy musicians here looking for stability and probably many more on their way scores more have landed in memphis these emigres are being thrown together in new combinations and the new orleans musicians don't need rehearsal they share a common vocabulary and they know how to throw a party on the street corner or anywhere they can gather this fall marian on the

line and i can't thank you enough for coming out tomorrow night local sax mastery jeff kaufmann will join the five all four of them continue play wednesday night's demonstrations until new orleans revise the next chapter of that city's amazing musical story is rich for national public radio i'm craig haven't heard it's b and it's been this bill is but

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