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Thelonious Monster singer Bob Forrest is working on a new mostly acoustic solo album. One of the songs he's been playing for a few years now is Randy Newman's Louisiana, about a huge flood 100 years ago; something that seems awfully timely right now. Bob and producer Gregory Butler worked in a bunch of George Bush samples and they asked me to put together a video for it, which you can see here.
Bob is also one of the narrators in my film. I posted a link to his clip a couple of days ago; here's that link again.
October 13 2005, 16:25:22 UTC 6 years ago
Nice video
I met Randy at a concert last year, brought my copy of Good Old Boys, and told him how much the song "Louisiana 1927" means to me since my grandpa went through the flood in '27 as a child with his parents. The state and federal government dynamited in the levee in lower St. Bernard to save New Orleans from flooding--destroying St. Bernard and Plaquemines in the process. The book Rising Tide describes the incredible events leading up to this. Anyway, Randy signed my CD, "To Mike -- 'They're tryin' to wash us away.' -- Randy."I lost the CD when my house in St. Bernard flooded. Ironically, the floodwater also washed away the tomb in which my grandfather's parents were buried.