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The Music of New Orleans and Memphis


PUBLISHED: April 10, 2014

This playlist is a companion to “Sister Cities: Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans and Stax Records’ Memphis” by Preston Lauterbach.


 New Orleans and Memphis are sister cities: one high maintenance and fussy, but so seductive; the other warm and friendly, with a razor in her boot. They share a parent, the Mississippi River, and legacies as the two most vital cities in American music history. Somehow beats and guitar licks change as they move downriver from Memphis, or up from New Orleans on the tracks of the Illinois Central. Listen to the flavor of each city in these alternating tracks.

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Robert Isadore ... · 9 years ago

What an impossible task— a playlist of music from Memphis & New Orleans.

Representative? Favorites? Historically significant? But who can complain, you have to dig very deep in the barrel to find an ignorable tune...

 

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