My musically savy friend from the old Fort Worth neighborhood sent me this link to a benefit album put out by Tipitina's Foundation. These guys are doing good work in New Orleans:
To date the Instruments A Comin' Program has provided over $1 million in donated instruments to the next generation of New Orleans musicians. Through the help of Jimmy Glickman and the New Orleans Music Exchange, the Tipitina's Foundation is working tirelessly to insure that every child in New Orleans has the means to play music.
Rebuilding what has been destroyed is important to the physical welfare of New Orleans, but music is its soul. Below the fold, a way to help out both and shake your booties at the same time.
Tipitina's will be releasing an album called Goin' Home, a tribute to Fats Domino, which will go toward building a community center in the Lower 9th Ward as well as supporting the stellar work that Tipitina's is known for. When you see the artists that have signed on to this project, any good Kossak with an ounce of musical sense will stick this puppy into their CD changer, download it into their iPod, and get their boogie on.
Here's the list:
Featured Artists & Songs:
Disc 1:
John Lennon: Ain't That A Shame
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: I'm Walkin'
B.B. King with Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk: Goin' Home
Elton John: Blueberry Hill
Taj Mahal & The New Orleans Social Club: My Girl Josephine
Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Joss Stone and Buddy Guy: Every Night About This Time
Paul McCartney featuring Allen Toussaint: I Want To Walk You Home
Lenny Kravitz with Rebirth Brass Band, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, Fred Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis and Maceo Parker: Whole Lotta Loving
Dr. John: Don't Leave Me This Way
Bonnie Raitt & Jon Cleary: I'm In Love Again/All By Myself
Art Neville: Please Don't Leave Me
Robbie Robertson with Galactic: Going To The River
Randy Newman: Blue Monday
Robert Plant with Lil' Band O' Gold: It Keeps Rainin'
Corinne Bailey Rae: One Night (Of Sin)
Disc 2:
Neil Young: Walking To New Orleans
Robert Plant with The Soweto Gospel Choir: Valley Of Tears
Norah Jones: My Blue Heaven
Lucinda Williams: Honey Chile
Marc Broussard featuring Sam Bush: Rising Sun
Olu Dara & The Natchezippi Band with Donald Harrison Jr.: When I See You
Ben Harper with the Skatalites: Be My Guest
Toots & The Maytals: Let The Four Winds Blow
Willie Nelson: I Hear You Knockin'
Irma Thomas and Marcia Ball: I Just Can't Get New Orleans Off My Mind
Bruce Hornsby: Don't Blame It On Me
Herbie Hancock with George Porter Jr., Zigaboo Modeliste and Renard Poche: I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
Los Lobos: The Fat Man
Big Chief Monk Boudreaux with Galactic: So Long
Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Walter "Wolfman" Washington & Theresa Andersson: When The Saints Go Marching In
Here's thelink. You know what to do.