After the Storm X: Dog Days of August

It’s hurricane season on the Gulf Coast. To commemorate it we gather songs made post-Katrina and Rita… as well as some enduring classics. Dr. John makes a soapbox of his piano and speaks out in song against the governmental missteps following our country’s greatest unnatural disaster. New Orleans jazz clarinetist Dr. Michael White joins us to talk about his new songs in traditional style made following the loss of his home and musical instruments to the flood. Plus the huge influx of talented outsiders is revealed in interviews with New Yorkers who have, post-storm, become New Orleanians—what brought them to and keeps them in the Crescent City.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Wade in the Water Ramsey Lewis
Chess Soul: A Decade of Chicago's Finest, MCA/Chess

Summertime Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes the Place of You: The Ronn Recordings, Fuel 2000

Too Hot to Sleep Eilen Jewell
Letters from Sinners and Strangers, Signature Sounds

Dog Days of August Cephas and Wiggins
From Richmond to Atlanta, Bullseye Blues Basic

Katrina, Katrina James Andrews & Friends
New Orleans, New Orleans, Independent Release CD single

Instrumental: Summertime Sidney Bechet
Ken Burns Jazz: Sidney Bechet, Columbia

Hey Pocky Way The Neville Brothers & the Meters
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans, Rhino DVD

Storm Warning Dr. John
Medical School: the Early Sessions of Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack, MCI

NY/NO CLIP: Artist Skylar Fein

Wade in the Water Eva Cassidy
Songbird, Blix Street

Down by the Riverside Papa Celestin's New Orleans Band
Marie Laveau, GHB

Instrumental: Wade in the Water Little Sonny
Essential Blues Harmonica, House of Blues

NY/NO CLIP: Clubgoers in New York

Drop Me Off In New Orleans Kermit Ruffins
Live at Vaughan's, Basin Street

Basin Street Blues Ray Charles
The Genius Hits the Road, Rhino

NY/NO CLIP: Writer-Walker Nathan Deuel

I'm Walkin' Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family

Streets of the City Johnny St. Cyr with Sister Elizabeth Eustis
Johnny St. Cyr, American Music

End Bed: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
American Routes original recording

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: Wade: Hurricane Suite I. Storm Warning Dr. John and the Lower 911
Sippiana Hericane, EMI

Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
The River in Reverse, Verve

What's Happening Brother The Dirty Dozen Brass Band feat. Bettye LaVette
What's Going On, Shout! Factory

SEGMENT: Dr. John

Instrumental: Do You Know What It Means (To Miss New Orleans) Don Vappie
Papa Don's New Orleans Jazz Band, Vappielle

Wade in the Water The Golden Gate Quartet
Swing Down, Chariot, Columbia

NY/NO CLIP: Writer Larry Blumenfeld and Social Worker Helene Greece

Make a Better World James Booker
Junco Partner, Rykodisc

Instrumental: New Orleans Joys Tom McDermott
Live in Paris, STR

Katrina James 'Blood' Ulmer
Bad Blood in the City, Hyena

St. James Infirmary Cassandra Wilson
Loverly, Blue Note

SEGMENT: Dr. Michael White

When the Saints Go Marching In The Georgia Peach
GoodBye, Babylon, Dust to Digital

When the Saints Go Marching In Eddie Bo
Our New Orleans 2005: A Benefit Album, Nonesuch

End Bed: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans Tuts Washington
New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder