Blog: Consequence Of Sound

Dusting ‘Em Off: Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint – The River in Reverse

It’s impossible to talk about New Orleans and its music (and broader culture) without talking about the city's recent strife. Period. So forgive me, apolitical readers, and political ones who flinch at the possibility of bring preached to. It goes without saying that New Orleans and the Gulf Coast (from which I live about half an hour away in North Florida) has a had a string of shitty luck in the last few years. Maybe “luck” isn’t the right word. Divine improvidence or damning from God, perhaps, if you believe that. [...]