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Henry Butler featured in HBO Documentary about Blind Photographers

Tonight on HBO 2 at 8pm

HBO's Dark Light Documentary w/ Henry Butler
Location: HBO 2 at 8pm

Wednesday, November 17th

Treme Brass Band's 'Uncle' Lionel Batiste takes Times Square

Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune

If you can make it there…A much, much larger-than-life photograph of “Uncle” Lionel Batiste, the popular Treme Brass Band bass drummer, currently towers over a busy Times Square intersection in Manhattan.

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Batiste is the main image in a multi-story Times Square banner advertising “If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise,” Spike Lee’s follow-up to his 2006 Hurricane Katrina documentary “When the Levees Broke.” The banner sits above a Walgreens at the bustling corner of 7th Avenue and W. 42nd Street, just around the corner from an even more massive banner trumpeting the new Sylvester Stallone film “The Expendables,” which was shot largely in New Orleans. Many thousands of pedestrians and vehicles pass through the intersection daily, experiencing the media sensory overload that is contemporary Times Square.

“If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise” premieres on HBO in two parts on August 23 and 24. It revisits many of the people viewers met in “Levees.”

Segments recount the New Orleans Saints’ Super Bowl victory, examine efforts to overhaul New Orleans’ public housing and public schools, crime, the Make It Right Foundation’s work in the Lower 9th Ward and Mississippi Gulf Coast recovery. Most of the entire fourth hour of the film is dedicated to the BP oil spill and its aftermath.

Lee’s HBO Follow-up New Orleans Doc Scheduled

By Cierra Stovall

Four years after Spike Lee’s Peabody-winning documentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Lee continues his efforts to document life after Hurricane Katrina. His new documentary, If God is Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise

highlights events that have occurred since his four-part documentary aired in 2006, and it will debut on HBO August 23 and 24 at 8 p.m.

This time, Lee uses the twin spectacles of triumph and anguish – the 2010 Super Bowl championship and the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf – as backdrops for his exploration of more day-to-day concerns: the city’s economy, health care, violence, the scarcity of affordable housing for those in poverty, and the redevelopment of the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish. Past Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, former Mayor Ray Nagin, historian Douglas Brinkley, activist actors Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, Houston mayor Anisse Parker and community organizer Tanya Harris are among those who speak to Lee for the film.

“The story is not over yet,” Lee says. “I’m proud HBO has given me the opportunity to tell the stories of these great Americans and that people will see how strong their spirits are.”

Top ten popular songs from Treme

c/o New Orleans Stuff

The top ten most popular Treme downloads from New Orleans Stuff for June 2010. There were a few surprises:

(most downloaded llisted first)

♪ Indian Red - Donald Harrison Jr.

♪ Treme Song - John Boutte

♪ Big Chief Battle Axe - Dr. Michael White

♪ Gut Bucket Blues - Don Vappie And The Creole Jazz Serenaders

♪ It's Raining - Irma Thomas

♪ 'Gardez Donc! - Beau Jocque and the Zydeco Hi-Rollers

♪ My Dawlin' New Orleans - Leigh Harris - Little Queenie

♪ Whirlaway - Allen Toussaint

♪ A Certain Girl - Ernie K-Doe

♪ Ace in the Hole - The Radiators

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Music of Treme | Episode 10 | Season Finale - I'll Fly Away

c/o New Orleans Stuff

John Boutte ► The Treme Song

Louis Gottschalk / Hot Springs Festival Symphony Orchestra ► A Night In The Tropics

Ohio Players ► Ecstasy

Ernie K-Doe ► Te Ta Te Ta Ta

The subdudes ► Got You On His Mind

Steve Earle + Lucia Micarelli (Annie) ► This City

Bennie Motel + His Kansas City Orchestra ► New Orleans

Lloyd Price, Allen Toussaint, Wendell Pierce (Antonie Batiste) ► Stagger Lee


Miles Davis ► Green Haze

Juvenile ► Animal

Danny Barker + Baby Dodds Trio ► My Indian Red

John Boutte ► Bring It On Home To Me

Art Neville + Toussaint Band ► Cha Dooky-Doo

The Hawks ► Can't See For Lookin'

Treme Brass Band ► Just A Little While To Stay Here

Mardi Gras Indians ► Traditional

Mardi Gras Indians ► Indian Red

Mardi Gras Indians ► Hey Pocky Way

Irma Thomas ► Time Is On My Side

Soul Rebels + John Mooney ► Drink A Little Poison 4 U Die

Gardians Of The Flame ► Guardians Chant

Congo Nation Indian Gang ► Congo Chant

James Booker ► On The Sunny Side of the Street

Quintron + Miss Pussycat ► Swamp Buggy Badass

Clarke Peters (Albert Lambreaux) + Rob Brown (Delmond Lambreaux) ► Is You Is or Is You Ain't My baby

Lois DeJean ► Just A Closer Walk With Thee

Katey Red ► Melpomene Block Party

Juvenile ► Nolia Clap

Treme Brass Band ► Didn't He Ramble

Treme Brass Band ► I'll Fly Away

Steve Earle ► This City

The Music of Treme: episode 9 - Wish Someone Would Care

c/o new orleans stuff

By popular demand, the music from the HBO series TremeEpisode 9, "Wish Someone Would Care"

Story by David Simon & George Pelecanos
Teleplay by George Pelecanos


hyperlinks connect to MP3s on our Amazon page. Most songs are 99¢ a download.

♫ John Boutte -- The Treme Song

♫ Smiley Lewis -- I Hear You Knocking

♫ Smiley Lewis -- Someday You'll Want Me

♫ Steve Zahn (Davis McAlary) -- Smoke That Fire

♫ Mardi Gras Indians -- Hoo Na Nay

♫ Jon Cleary -- When You Get Back

♫ Kermit Ruffins & The BBQ Swingers -- Honey Suckle Rose

♫ Li'L Wayne -- Fireman

♫ Sonny Rollins -- Blue Seven

♫ Lucia Micarelli (Annie) + Jamie Waterson -- Dixie Flyer

♫ Steve Zahn (Davis McAlary) -- Traditional 12 Bar Blues

♫ Jon Cleary -- More Hipper

♫ Kermit Ruffins & The BBQ Swingers -- If You Want Me To Stay

♫ Steve Zahn (Davis McAlary) -- I Wish Someone Would Care

♫ Jon Cleary -- Big Chief

♫ Kermit Ruffins & The BBQ Swingers -- Didn't He Ramble

♫ Kermit Ruffins & The BBQ Swingers -- Skokiaan

♫ John Magnie -- Agent 00 Soul

♫ Michiel Huisman -- I Like It Like That

♫ O.V. Wright -- I'd Rather Be Blind, Cripple & Crazy

♫ Natchez Calliope -- The Entertainer

♫ Lucia Micarelli (Annie) + Jamie Waterson -- Jambalaya

♫ Hack Bartholomew -- Down By The Riverside

♫ Lucia Micarelli (Annie) + Jamie Waterson -- Do You Know What It Means

♫ Natchez Calliope -- Ain't She Sweet

♫ The subdudes -- All The Time In The World

The Music of Treme: episode 8 - All On a Mardi Gras Day

c/o New Orleans Stuff

Written by Eric Overmyer

As New Orleans gears up for Fat Tuesday, LaDonna puts her bad news on hold.

hyperlinks connect to MP3s on our Amazon page. Most songs are 99¢ a download.


Aaron Neville - Struttin' on Sunday

Lucia Micarelli (Annie) & Michiel Huisman (Sonny) - Second Line on Monday

John Boutte - The Treme Song

Ivan Neville & Dumpstaphunk - Meanwhile…

Professor Longhair - Big Chief Part II

Wild Magnolias - I'm Back

Bob French + The Tuxedo Jazz Band - Milenberg Joy

Professor Longhair - Go To The Mardi Gras

Steve Zahn (Davis McAlary) - Battle of New Orleans

Al "Carnival Time" Johnson - Carnival Time

Dr. John - Mardi Gras Day

Soul Rebels - Let Your Mind Be Free

Redeye - Ooh Na Nay

The Wild Magnolias - Injuns, Here They Come

Professor Longhair - Go To The Mardi Gras

The Meters - Hey Pocky A-Way

Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Mardi Gras in New Orleans

Pete Fountain - While We Dance at The Mardi Gras

Katey Red - So Much Drama

ReBirth Brass Band - Do Whatcha Wanna

Tom McDermott - Camptown Races

Tom McDermott - If I Ever Cease To Love

Kim Dickens (Janette Desoutel) - Iko Iko

Johnny Adams - Tell It Like It Is

Champion Jack Dupree - Yella Pocahontas

Eddie Bo - Stink Bomb

Big Sam's Funky Nation / Rob Brown (Delmond Lambreaux) - Come Down to New Orleans

The Iguanas - Is This Love

Tommy Malone - Fat Tuesday

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