Big Easy's Musicians Move Their Acts to Austin

Sad. Austin is great, but -- sad.


WP: Big Easy's Musicians Move Their Acts to Austin
Lively Arts Scene In Texas Capital Suits Evacuees
By Sylvia Moreno
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 30, 2005; Page A03

AUSTIN -- The self-proclaimed Live Music Capital of the World, the place that gave rock-and-roll superstar Janis Joplin her start in the 1960s, is sounding a little funkier these days. The chili, as one of the famed Neville Brothers sings in his new regular gig, has met the gumbo.

Among the estimated 1 million Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina are musicians trying to reestablish New Orleans's distinct second-line beat in a city better known for folk and roots, rhythm and blues, indie rock and country rock.

The city's population of more than 8,700 musicians has not only grown a bit but also diversified racially and ethnically. Relocated here indefinitely, among others, are Cyril Neville and Tribe 13, Ivan Neville and Dumpsta Funk, the Hot Eight Brass Band, the Iguanas, the Caesar Brothers Funk Box, the Radiators, and Big Chief Kevin Goodman of the Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indian tribe. Some of them have even created an ad hoc band with a name that sums up who they are today, post-Katrina: "The Texiles."

"We all want to go back, but how can you go back to a situation like that? Everything was so vibrant and now everything is dead," said Dale Spalding, 56, a harmonica player and vocalist. "New Orleans was a great musical scene; it was intoxicating. But Austin is a very rich musical town, too."...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/29/AR2005112901383.html

That place is gonna be the hip capital of the entire planet now... and it's in freaking Texas, for Christ's sake!

give us a chance. :)

but hopefully some day they will be able to go back to NO. Been to Austin numerous times and the music is outstanding.

We call New Orleans the "Crescent City."

movie came out (the absolutely WORST film based on New Orleans), it had been a term used by musicians a very very long time ago, and was seldom used since.

Every New Orleanean I know cannot stand the name nor do we use it. For example, see post #6. Folks from St. Louis will tell you they do not like "St. Louee" nor do people from San Francisco like the term "Frisco." ... just sayin'. :)

:)

We also tar and feather anyone that says "New Orleeeeeeenz".

:)

Pronounce "Tchopitoulas", "Hebert", "Boudreux", and tell what a yat is.

Chop-i-too-las

A-bear (long a)

Boo-drow (as in glow)

and a yat is a Native New Orleanian, particularly one with that wonderful 9th ward accent...as in "Where y'at, cher?"

Did I pass? :)

only partial credit on the last one...'yats' are more a Chalmette located dialect...and 'cher' is more cajun language/terminology.

Very good though!

And I will debate you on the Chalmette limitation (although it is thick with "yats"...and what about Arabi?)

btw, 'yats' are also called 'Chalmations' in some circles....

And Swamp Rat is correct, we do not generally say 'cher'...but 'dawlin' as you have offered is spot on for the aforementioned 'yats'!

is from Acadiana. He uses "cher".

Dammit, I've been brainwashed by Cajuns!!!!

:)

Way'at brah! :hi:

I did try to correct it to the accepted "dawlin"