Dr.JOHN AND THE LOWER 911 - City That Care Forgot (2008)



Tracks:

01. Keep On Goin'
02. Time For A Change (featuring Eric Clapton)
03. Promises, Promises (featuring Willie Nelson)
04. You Might Be Surprised
05. Dream Warrior
06. Black Gold
07. We Gettin' There (featuring Terence Blanchard)
08. Stripped Away (featuring Eric Clapton)
09. Say Whut?
10. My People Need A Second Line (feat. James Andrews & Trombone Shorty)
11. Land Grab (featuring Terence Blanchard)
12. City That Care Forgot (featuring Eric Clapton and Ani DiFranco)
13. Save Our Wetlands (featuring Terrance Simien)

On recent albums, Dr John has touched on the Katrina disaster that destroyed his hometown New Orleans – but here it's personal, a volley of bitter buckshot at specific targets – Bush, Cheney and Halliburton – and the wider lack of concern that allowed such a disgrace to take place. The doctor employs characteristically limber, syncopated funk grooves while vilifying the profiteers, "black gold politicians" and land-grabbers fattening themselves on human tragedy, and elsewhere using the city's traditional mournful horn stylings to commemorate the victims. The funeral oration "My People Need a Second Line" unites both strands, as he puzzles over why police now harass the mourners whose processions were once such a feature of the city's culture. It's a sterling broadside from the self-styled "samurai of the holy lost cause/ of the river and the bayou and the fishin' holes", though you should skip the front-loaded guest slots by Eric Clapton and Willie Nelson to get to the album's real meat.
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