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	New Orleans, Louisiana -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Orleans was founded in 1718 by the (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French as La Nouvelle-Orléans, under the direction of (Click link for more info and facts about Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville) Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
		The Port of New Orleans handles about 145 million short tons (132 million metric tons) of cargo a year and is the largest faction of the Port of South Louisiana, the latter being the largest and busiest shipping port in the western hemisphere and the 4th busiest in the world.
		New Orleans is one of the most visited cities in the United States, thus tourism is a major staple in the area's economy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/new_orleans,_louisiana.htm (5615 words)

	Cosmik Debris Magazine Presents: New Orleans Rhythm, Blues and Rock; May 2002
		New Orleans R&B had its own superstars, of course, and it wasn't by mistake that Fats Domino and Little Richard were chosen as part of the inaugural class for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
		The early importance and enduring influence of New Orleans R&B on the history of rock music can't be reduced to the work of a pair, or even a handful, of stars, though, regardless of how seminal and significant their contributions were.
		Among the New Orleans bandleaders, the most prominent figure in the development of the new R&B music that was to become rock & roll was Dave Bartholomew, a trumpeter, songwriter, bandleader and, by 1949, the New Orleans A&R man for a new Los Angeles company, Imperial Records.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-may02/new_orleans.html (1335 words)

	RollingStone.com: Dr. John : New Orleans Artists Speak : News
		With eighty percent of New Orleans submerged under up to twenty feet of water in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and thousands of casualties anticipated, the music world is dealing with the emotional impact and trying to imagine the future of one of America's most influential cultural centers.
		Blues rocker Marc Broussard, currently on tour on the West Coast, grew up outside New Orleans and is awaiting word from family.
		New Orleans is such a fuel for the entire country's music.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/7598130/drjohn?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single1 (1400 words)

	The New Orleans blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		NEW ORLEANS - Iraq-tested US troops with shoot-to-kill orders have been deployed in New Orleans to restore law and order after days of chaos and looting in the hurricane-devastated city.
		Four days after the killer storm slammed into the US Gulf Coast, New Orleans was still plagued by gunbattles and rapes with gangs of looters and carjackers roving the streets and bodies just left lying by the roadside.
		New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued an urgent plea for help for up to 20,000 refugees stuck in the convention centre which he said was "unsanitary and unsafe" and running out of supplies.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /zones/sundaytimesNEW/topstories/topstories1125638101.aspx (516 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
		New Orleans is identified most vividly in the public mind with jazz, but its rhythm and blues tradition is no less distinctive, and has resulted in a unique and important body of work.
		As rhythm and blues began to develop in the 1940s as a distinct American musical form, New Orleans musicians were listening to the records of musicians like Louis Jordan, but putting them into their own contexts.
		Longhair, born in 1918, became the godfather of rhythm and blues in New Orleans.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100889 (1151 words)

	New Orleans Vacations: Bike & Blues, a Real New Orleans Vacation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Orleans Vacations: Our Bike and Blues tour is a real New Orleans Vacation with cycling, Creole and Cajun food, live local music and the finest BandBs.
		New Orleans City Tour: Pedal along beautiful Bayou St. John and view the architecture of the oldest neighborhood in New Orleans, Faubourg St. John, with petite plantations dating from 1784.
		Return to New Orleans by cycling back along the Mississippi River Levee with an optional stop near the end of the ride at The River Shack, a unique tavern along the Mississippi River Levee Bike Path.
	www.laidbacktours.com /tours_reb.shtml (949 words)

	Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: NEW ORLEANS BLUES
		New Orleans has always been so vivid in my imagination—and I've never even been there though it is a place I wanted to visit.
		Despair, privation and violent lawlessness grew so extreme in New Orleans on Thursday that the flooded city's mayor issued a "desperate S O S" and other local officials, describing the security situation as horrific, lambasted the federal government as responding too slowly to the disaster.
		New Orleans is the city of Stanley and Stella.
	onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com /only_the_blog_knows_brook/2005/09/new_orleans_blu.html (684 words)

	Big Easy New Orleans Travel Guide - Discount New Orleans Hotels - Guaranteed Lowest Rates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The novice to New Orleans is faced with a slew of decisions.
		If you're in New Orleans on business (New Orleans is the convention capital from October-March), you'll more than likely prefer to set up shop in the city's Central Business District, which is also considered downtown and is a few short blocks from the French Quarter.
		New Orleans provides visitors with a wealth of public transportation options - so unless you're traveling to other parts of the state, you won't need a car here.
	www.bigeasy.org (711 words)

	New Orleans Blues Revue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Saxophonist/singer-songwriter Brian "Breeze" Cayolle is soulful, strong and deeply rooted in the rhythm and blues, jazz and rock and roll traditions of his native New Orleans.
		Brian "Breeze" Cayolle studied music at the University of New Orleans and honed his craft in the clubs of the Crescent City.
		He performs with many of New Orleans finest artists and with his own group, affectionately known as the French Quarter All-Stars.
	neworleansbluesrevue.com /id12.html (276 words)

	JS Online: New Orleans blues
		One former New Orleans musician, Scott Messersmith, is attempting to persuade the city of Boulder, Colo., to offer subsidized interim housing for up to 300 displaced New Orleans musicians to keep their community together.
		The owners of several old-line New Orleans restaurants, including Brennan's and Commander's Palace, are attempting to organize their staff through their parent company's Houston offices.
		The death of Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana - described in the New Orleans Times-Picayune as the maskers' Louis Armstrong - this year was regarded as a monumental loss for the culture in itself.
	www.jsonline.com /news/nat/sep05/356520.asp (1502 words)

	New Orleans: jazz, blues and swing CD
		New artists regularly learn from their predecessors, and inject those lessons with fresh energy and ideas.
		New Orleans is also the latest addition to Putumayo’s successful series focusing on the rich musical heritage of Louisiana, including Kermit Ruffins, Louisiana Gumbo, Zydeco and Cajun.
		In light of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi, Putumayo World Music is donating all of its proceeds from New Orleans and Mississippi Blues to relief efforts in the area through the end of the year.
	www.putumayo.com /catalog/item.php?item_number=232-2 (529 words)

	New Orleans Blues : Radar Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These people on television—what you have to understand is that New Orleans is unlike the rest of the country.
		Eight years I’ve lived in New Orleans and witnessing everything disintegrate is just crazy.
		People in DC forgot about New Orleans and how important it is. It’s the largest port in the United States.
	www.radaronline.com /web-only/politics/2005/09/new-orleans-blues.php (644 words)

	The New Orleans Rhythm & Blues Company
		They were recently chosen to perform at the opening of the New Orleans Saints training camp in Thibodaux, LA and performed at the first home game of the 2000 season.
		New Orleans Rhythm & Blues Company recently released their first CD entitled 'Identity Crisis'.
		New Orleans Rhythm & Blues Company's unique sound and ability to excite any crowd will certainly ensure the success of any party or event.
	www.mbus.com /bands/genadm/The.New.Orleans.Rhythm.&.Blues.Company.htm (552 words)

	New Orleans: Nightlife : The Rhythms of New Orleans : Rhythm & Blues \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Orleans: Nightlife : The Rhythms of New Orleans : Rhythm & Blues
		Technically, the blues is not a New Orleans form, belonging more to the rural delta and, in its urban forms, Texas and Chicago.
		And if the Nevilles are the royal family of New Orleans music, Irma Thomas is its duchess of soul.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/neworleans/0020033673.html (320 words)

	IRMA THOMAS - The Soul Queen of New Orleans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		NEWS [Sep 2, 2005]: Contrary to some news reports which claimed that she was among the people who are missing after the New Orleans flood, Irma Thomas is safe and sound.
		Finally, in mid-seventies she moved back to New Orleans, where she was still popular as a live performer, and in 1977 she married her present husband and manager Emile Jackson, with whom she also owns a club in New Orleans.
		Her first Rounder album "The New Rules" was produced by Irma and Scott Billington, and it was followed by another set, "The Way I Feel", both of which contained a mixture of new songs and remakes of already familiar material.
	www.helsinki.fi /~ilva/irma.html (2631 words)

	New Orleans Blues Project - Cultural Commons
		The New Orleans Blues Project is a music and cultural economic development project - a grass roots community effort founded on principles of inclusion, unity and community action.
		As a music and cultural economic development project, Blues Project initiatives and programs address a variety of community concerns and needs in a unique progressive manner through music and the creative industries, the region?s leading new market for employment, entrepreneurial and business development, attraction and investment.
		The New Orleans Blues Project?s primary activity is the provision of much needed, partially subsidized artist support services to the region?s independant musicians.
	www.culturalpolicy.org /commons/directorydetail.cfm?ID=4565 (194 words)

	Better Than Ezra: Live at the House of Blues - New Orleans - PopMatters Music Review
		Live at the House of Blues - New Orleans would seem to be a sure thing, a document of BTE in their preferred element, at a hometown show...and, to a certain extent, it is. Unfortunately, as with most live albums, it misses the full experience by removing the majority of the between-song and mid-song patter.
		The album's rendition of "King of New Orleans" is probably the perfect example of how fun BTE can be in a live setting.
		Tacked onto the end of the album are two new studio tracks, "Cold Year" and "Stall"; both provide a return to the sound of the band's debut...
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/betterthanezra-live2004.shtml (770 words)

	Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival
		“BLUES for KATRINA is a way for the community to come together in solidarity to raise funds for relief efforts while celebrating the traditions and music of the Gulf Coast.
		“New Orleans ‘Soul Queen,’ Irma Thomas, Irma and her husband have been staying at her sister's house near Baton Rouge.
		Cruise the Willamette River on the Portland Spirit and hear legendary blues artists perform on the boat’s two intimate stages.
	www.waterfrontbluesfest.com (936 words)

	New Orleans Piano: Blues Originals 2 \| Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Merging blues, jazz, Cajun, and Creole influences along with country-inflected rock, R&B, and piano in the styles of boogie-woogie and fast-pumping Ferriday chording, this group of selections...
		Billed in the mid-50s as 'Li’l Ray Charles,' this influential New Orleans guitarist can hold his own with just his voice and guitar, though he prefers playing with a rhythm section.
		Editorial Product Review: :New Orleans' Henry Roeland Byrd wasn't the most polished of all the great R&B pianists of the '40s and '50s, but even Ray Charles and Otis Spann rarely matched his speed.
	electronics.globalgiftshopping.com /new-orleans-blues,Music/Catalog-BrowseNode-641108-BrowseNodeName-New_Orleans_Blues.htm (1079 words)

	Soul Of America - New Orleans: Blues Traditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the Mississippi Delta region, particularly New Orleans, horns and extensive piano stylings coupled with story-tellling, uplifting lyrics and plodding, complex rhythms were known as New Orleans Blues.
		Throughout the years, the Blues has become a major influence on American popular music, and is expressed today in nearly all musical forms from modern classical, to RandB, Rock and Roll, Country, and of course, Jazz.
		Consequently, New Orleans role in the early commericalization of that musical genre is second only to Memphis.
	www.soulofamerica.com /cityfldr/orleans25.html (315 words)

	New Orleans Jazz: George Rodrigue Print & New Orleans Style Jazz.
		We are a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of traditional New Orleans style jazz.
		For over 50 years, the New Orleans Jazz Club has helped promote traditional jazz all over the world.
		The New Orleans Jazz Club is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting New Orleans style jazz music with thousands of members Worldwide.
	www.nojazzclub.com (254 words)

	House of Blues New Orleans : HOB.com
		House of Blues New Orleans is closed due to city-wide devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
		The Foundation Room at HOB New Orleans is a members-only secluded club with unparalleled elegant space for professional and personal entertaining.
		House of Blues is committed to providing guests with a safe and enjoyable entertainment experience.
	hob.com /venues/clubvenues/neworleans (491 words)

	Harrah's Casino to Host New Orleans Blues Giants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Orleans Music Events announce plans to stage The New Orleans All Star Blues Revue for an initial three-performance run on September 19, October 10, and October 17 in the Earl Turner Theatre at the foot of Canal Street inside Harrah's casino.
		Created and produced by Deanna Bernard of New Orleans Music Events, the show is one of Harrah's first significant presentations built entirely around the wealth of New Orleans musical talent.
		Known for showcasing major national acts, Harrah's staging of The New Orleans All Star Blues Revue marks an important development in the relationship between the Harrah's organization and the New Orleans musical community.
	www.wwoz.org /news/00712.html (209 words)

	Cousin Joe: Blues From New Orleans
		No one knows the blues - and those experiences - better than Pleasant "Cousin Joe" Joseph, noted New Orleans bluesman.
		Born in 1907 in Wallace, Louisiana, just outside of New Orleans, Cousin Joe became a professional entertainer during the 1920's, progressing from impromptu street performances to gigs at the Famous Door and other local clubs to recording sessions in New York City.
		In 1972 his album "Bad Luck Blues" was named "Blues Album of the Year" in France.
	www.satchmo.com /cousinjoe (441 words)

	Blues-R&B New Orleans Jazz CDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blues, RandB (Rhythm and Blues) and Soul - You will find all of the Artists that fit into these musical styles here.
		Ten Years of toiling on the Southern Blues circuit and multiple tours of Europe have finally brought Red Hot and Blues to the verge of breakout.
		A legend in the making, Kipori Woods is the youngest fl blues vocalist and guitarist to surface on the blues scene in years.
	www.neworleansjazz.com /blues-r&b.asp (465 words)

	New Orleans Rhythm & Blues Company Songs, Sounds & Video
		New Orleans Rhythm & Blues Company recently released their debut CD of original songs, "Identity Crisis".
		” held the number 1 spot in the Blues genre at MP3.com for an impressive 4 weeks, climbing to number 42 overall — quite an accomplishment considering there were over 700,000 songs at MP3.com.
		In March 2001, 4 of their songs were in the Top Twenty in Rock at MP3.com and 4 other songs were in the Top Forty in the Blues genre.
	www.rhythmandbluescompany.com /Songs.html (199 words)

	Dr. John :The Doctor Is In
		Rebennack had paid his dues in the clubs and recording studios of New Orleans in the mid-1950s and early 60s, and it showed in his piano playing, his deportment, and even his speech patterns.
		He spent hours practicing guitar and piano, learning to play blues and, as he entered high school, rock and roll, which was making inroads into New Orleans.
		The second thing that happened to disturb not only Rebennack's career but also the careers and livelihoods of many in the New Orleans music business was the election in 1961 of Earling Carothers "Jim" Garrison as District Attorney for the City of New Orleans.
	www.jazzitude.com /doctorjohn1.htm (1492 words)

	Biography: Luther Kent, blues singer New Orleans blues music
		They formed a large New Orleans horn band which became known as "Luther Kent and Trick Bag".
		This became the after hours band for many named artists to sit in with, whenever they were visiting New Orleans.
		Luther is currently the voice for the New Orleans Tourist Commissions and on commercials for Harrah's in
	www.lutherkent.com /info/luther.html (616 words)

	New Orleans Blues
		As the fetid waters begin to recede in New Orleans, revealing unprecedented levels of property damage, it is clear that it will take years to rebuild.
		This is not to say that a city called New Orleans won't exist.
		Even before the bodies have been recovered from the low-lying, low-income areas, the rebuilding effort is attracting the attention of developers who assume that the demographics have no place to go but up.
	nreionline.com /news/katrina_retail_traffic/index.html (697 words)

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