This week in the Shack

Given that this Friday will mark the three-year anniversary of Katrina tearing the hell out of the Gulf Coast, this week's set has a number of songs about the hurricane and life after, plus Marcia Ball's version of Randy Newman's Louisiana 1927, about a devastating flood, and one about another disaster that inspired a number of blues songs, the 1940 Rhythm Club fire in Natchez, Mississippi (represented here by Howlin' Wolf's The Natchez Burnin').

New Orleans, and New Orleans musicians, are still rebuilding. If you're interested in helping out, I encourage you to donate to any of a number of organizations out there helping, including the Tipitina's Foundation and the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund. I'll try to get some links to these on the sideboard of the blog this weekend.

As always, I hope you dig the music.

1. Guy Forsyth - This Is Hip (4:01)
2. Albert Collins - I Ain't Drunk (4:06)
3. T-Bone Walker - Cold, Cold Feeling (3:10)
4. Dinah Washington - The Blues Ain't Nothin' But a Woman Cryin' for Her Man (3:48)
5. Memphis Slim - Rolling and Tumbling (6:02)
6. Stan Webb's Chicken Shack - The Thrill Is Gone (12:15)
7. Jackie Payne Steve Edmonson Band - Overnight Sensation (4:38)
8. Freddie King - I'm Tore Down (4:11)
9. Eric Clapton - Third Degree (5:08)
10. Seth Walker - 2' Left to the Ceiling (3:43)
11. Dr. John; Lower 911 - We Gettin' There (5:11)
12. Koko Taylor - Hard Pill to Swallow (5:50)
13. Long John Baldry - Insane Asylum (5:31)
14. The Blind Boys of Alabama - Old Blind Barnabas (3:30)
15. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane (7:16)
16. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Good Stuff (3:02)
17. Chris Thomas King - O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Acappella] (2:58)
18. Freddie King - I'm Ready (3:45)
19. Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love (2:30)
20. Howlin' Wolf - Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy (3:06)
21. T-Bone Walker - First Love Blues (3:09)
22. Koko Taylor - Money Is the Name of the Game (6:47)
23. Long John Baldry - I'd Rather Go Blind (6:20)
24. Eric Clapton - Groaning the Blues (6:06)
25. Buddy Guy - Done Got Old (3:23)
26. Muddy Waters - Bus Driver (7:47)
27. Howlin' Wolf - The Natchez Burnin' (2:09)
28. Big Mama Thornton - Big Mama's Blues (My Love) (4:08)
29. Nina Simone - Backlash Blues (2:29)
30. Tom Waits - Romeo Is Bleeding (4:52)
31. The Atomic Fireballs - Lover Lies (3:19)
32. John Hammond, Jr. - If You Wanna Rock & Roll (4:08)
33. Fats Domino - Blue Monday (2:38)
34. Albert Collins - Blue Monday Hangover (5:33)
35. Buddy Guy; Joss Stone; The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Every Night About This Time (3:32)
36. Chris Thomas King - Faith (5:25)
37. Marcia Ball - Louisiana 1927 (6:54)
38. The Five Blind Boys of Alabama - Amazing Grace (4:25)
39. Ollabelle - John the Revelator (4:09)

(blues 5)