Saturday, May 14, 2011

DELTA BLUES MOMENT AS FLOOD WATERS RISE


Floodgates Are Opened
Read the Story
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/14/136304108/la-readies-to-flood-cajun-country

"Engineers opened a 10-ton, steel emergency floodgate
for the first time Saturday in nearly four decades,
purposefully inundating farmlands
and homes in Louisiana's Cajun country
to drain the swelling Mississippi River 
and avert flooding in New Orleans."  
The water will bury a community of some 12,000 souls,
their crops, homes, and animals.
I have Delta Blues on my mind.


Big Bill Broonzy
1898 – 1958
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bill_Broonzy
River Blues




 Some non-Flood Material from the great
Sippie Wallace
1898 – 1986
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sippie_Wallace


Women Be Wise



Suitcase Blues



Shorty George



There Are No Surprises
We Know Why The Mississippi Floods





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