This Week in the Shack

What we suddenly understood, if we hadn't known it before, was that some cities mean something to us. They are cities that somehow become a definition of ourselves. We don't have to travel to see them, to walk along their streets, we only have to know they are there. Who would want to live in a world without Paris? Or London? Rio de Janeiro, Rome, or New York?...Even if we never make the journey, we want cities like this to be there. Our lives would be diminished, somehow more barren and flat, without them.

--Samuel Charters, in "New Orleans: Playing a Jazz Chorus", on the effect of the reports of the devastation in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

This week, The Shotgun Shack plays the music of the Crescent City.

1. Earl King - No City Like New Orleans (4:33)
2. Marcia Ball - That's Enough of That Stuff (6:29)
3. Tab Benoit - Golden Crown (6:49)
4. Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias - Jockomo, Jockomo (5:56)
5. Rebirth Brass Band - New Orleans Music (5:00)
6. Kermit Ruffins - Palm Court Strut (5:02)
7. Wynton Marsalis - Dead Man Blues (4:40)
8. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (5:54)
9. Dr. John - Milneburg Joys (2:39)
10. Sammy Price - In The Evening (Take 1) (5:41)
11. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (5:30)
12. Aaron Neville - Meetin' At The Building (2:44)
13. Booker, James - Put Out the Light (3:08)
14. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Junko Partner (4:23)
15. Jon Cleary - So Damn Good (4:28)
16. The Meters - Jungle Man (3:25)
17. The Neville Brothers - Hey Pocky Way (4:13)
18. The Golden Eagles - Little Liza Jane (3:38)
19. Buckwheat Zydeco - Somebody Stole My Slide (4:09)
20. Glen David Andrews - Jesus on the Main Line (5:36)
21. Fats Domino - I'm in Love Again (1:56)
22. The Barons - Boom Boom (2:20)
23. Shirley & Lee - Let the Good Times Roll (2:23)
24. Paul Sanchez - Foot Of Canal Street (3:48)
25. Dr. Michael White - Majestic Strut (5:24)
26. Sidney Bechet - Up in Sidney's Flat (4:24)
27. Preservation Hall Jazz Band;Dr. John - Winin' Boy Blues (5:33)
28. Kid Ory - Oh, Didn't He Ramble (4:56)
29. Louis Armstrong - Dippermouth Blues (2:22)
30. New Orleans Jazz Vipers - Digga-Digga-Do (5:25)
31. Professor Longhair - Go To The Mardi Gras (2:50)
32. Sammy Price - Royal Garden Blues (5:08)
33. Billie And Dede Pierce - Billie's Gumbo Blues (3:33)
34. Allen Toussaint - West End Blues (3:51)
35. Champion Jack Dupree - Hometown New Orleans (4:20)
36. Clifton Chenier - Blues de Ma Negresse (3:09)
37. Amasa Miller, Charmaine Neville, Reggie Houston - The Right Key but the Wrong Keyhole [Live] (5:46)
38. GuitarSlim (Feat. Roosevelt Brown & Huey Smith) - Reap What You Sow (2:40)
39. Kermit Ruffins - What Is New Orleans? (8:26)
40. Paul Gayten - Baby, What's New? (2:55)
41. Glen David Andrews - Family (7:32)
42. Louis Armstrong - Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (3:48)