New Orleans responds to strife, as always, with song

Category: Science

Publish Date: 07-29-2010 11:00 AM -0700

A number of songs have sprung up in reaction to the gulf oil spill, bringing the city together and giving vent to collective anger.

Ben Jaffe, the tuba player and creative director for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, was sitting in his Faubourg Marigny house one spring morning, drinking fresh-brewed New Orleans chicory coffee and worrying about the oil spill.

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