I thought they were dead when the Vikes had it first and ten at the 32.
If you could pick just one Louisiana-related song, what would it be?
I’m going with Junco Partner.
It doesn’t get better than James Booker.
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I thought they were dead when the Vikes had it first and ten at the 32.
If you could pick just one Louisiana-related song, what would it be?
I’m going with Junco Partner.
It doesn’t get better than James Booker.
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Earl
Suddenly, I’m a Colts Fan!!
Joel
Beat the Colts! Beat the Colts!
I feel a little bad for the Vikings, as my in-laws are all Vikings fans, but how predictable that Favre blows an easy 5-yard scramble to set up his kicker for an across-the-field interception. And, unlike a lot of people, I have nothing against Favre. It’s just that old Favre is a lot like young Bledsoe (but more mobile).
mr. whipple
Awesome. Go Saints!
Scott de B.
I think you mean Geaux Saints!
JK
FUCK the Saints and the Colts. I wish both of these fucking teams could lose the Super Bowl.
Suddenly, I can’t wait until the start of the baseball season.
How many days is it until pitchers and catchers have to report for spring training?
Desert Rat
Live by the off-balance throw into coverage, die by the off-balance throw into coverage. Thus it has always been with the Favre, and thus will it always be.
Of course, Adrian Petersen carrying the ball like he was allergic to it didn’t do them any favors.
Geaux Saints!
Desert Rat
@JK:
Had the Jets and Vikings in a two-team tease, eh?
I kid. I kid.
meh
without question…from True Blood…
quintessential nawlins…
CaseyL
I’m happy for them. This is a team and a town that deserves to have something good to shout about.
Geaux Saints!
Jim
Marie Marie la voodoo
She’ll put a spell on you
So bad it’s… well, so bad it’s bad.
This one is Louisiana rather than NO, but it’s a good song.
You Don't Say
Congrats to the Saints on their first ever trip to the Super Bowl.
Ryan
I think of Louisiana, I think of Tipitina by Professor Longhair.
Geaux Saints!
malraux
Having been watching the saints all season, I’ve gotta say, the Saints do not do boring games.
Max
Best New Orleans movie – The Big Easy. Sexy Dennis Quaid.
Seth 4:10
For Farve’s career:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdohpu1ZRA
Comrade Luke
Look on the bright side. Maybe Landrieu will get laid tonight and the resulting stress release will make her back off on HCR.
demkat620
@meh: That show has great music.
But anything by Buckwheat Zydeco.
Damn, I need to go back to Nawlins!
demkat620
@Max: Oh yeah. I actually bought that one. Good flick.
smiley
That Randy Newman song.
Riggsveda
The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton.
Kryptik
The Saints D may not be brickwall solid, but they won this game, flat out. Don’t sleep on the scary tendency to poke the ball out on you.
Gus
Great game. I’m rooting for the Saints now, ’cause I love NOLA.
robertdsc
Maybe now that old fucker will retire and STAY retired.
Brett
Yeah, Saints, fuck yeah! Even if they lose in the Superbowl, they’ll still have gone farther than any prior Saints team.
Ah, Favre. I wonder if he’ll retire again. Probably not, seeing as how he needs to make up for that playoff loss. That said, he had an excellent game right up until that last pick.
Saints vs. Colts should be interesting.
Crusty Dem
How do you end up with 12 in the huddle AFTER a timeout? That was some seriously powerful WTF there. Also, did Brees make one decent throw on the game winning drive? Also, WTF NFL? One possession overtimes? WTF?
Also, WTF?
I didn’t have anything but a fan’s interest in that game, was cheering for a fun game, lots of points and maybe a feel-good Saints Superbowl. Then Favre and the Vikings won me over. Then, I got a heaping pile of WTF at the end (also, how was that pass that was never caught and hit the ground at the Saints 22 called a completion, even after review?).
In any case, congratulations to the 2010 NFL champion Indianapolis Colts (probably the case independent of the outcome of this game).
Lisa K.
GO SAINTS!!!!
No Manning/Favre nonsense!
I am so happy I actually have a team I can cheer for in the Super Bowl!
asiangrrlMN
Dear Every Team: You can all DIAFFF. That is all.
Woodbuster
“Ridin’ on The City of New Orleans,…”
JK
One more reason to hate this year’s Super Bowl
Tim Tebow, Mother’s Super Bowl Ad To ‘Celebrate Life’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/17/tim-tebow-mothers-super-b_n_426673.html
Royce R.
I second Joel…. Beat the Colts!
Lisa K.
Yes, considering there will be 49 states cheering for the Saints, and only one for the Colts. They pissed off a lot of people by spitting on the chance to go undefeated.
Lisa K.
@JK:
There is a reason mute buttons were invented.
gnomedad
At first I thought the post title was a snarky reference to Bobby Jindal.
Phyllis
@JK: 25
Violet
@demkat620:
Or Step Rideau. But zydeco is really Cajun and notsomuch New Orleans.
amorphous
@robertdsc: Funniest comment on JC’s B-J today.
AkaDad
And I can remember the fourth of July,
Runnin’ through the backwood, bare.
And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin’,
Chasin’ down a hoodoo there.
Chasin’ down a hoodoo there.
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
I really didn’t care what else happened today so long as (1) Dame Brett Somers Klugman Farvuruh didn’t clutch her trophy and pule, “you like me, you really like me!” and (2) we don’t have to hear for two solid weeks about how the NFL’s best defense and running game are blessed with a quarterback who “just knows how to win.” Good day all around.
Ash Can
Favre did way, way better with the Vikings than I thought he would. And that’s felony understatement.
As far as the Superbowl goes, fuck the Colts. They had theirs. It’s time for someone else to get rings.
JK
@Lisa K.:
Mute buttons or no mute buttons, the decision to run this pro-life tv commercial during the Super Bowl is total fucking bullshit. There won’t be any tv commercials airing during the Super Bowl that promote left wing causes. This is a flagrant example of right wing media bias.
Zam
@JK: Didn’t MoveOn or someone get their commercial denied a few years back?
Yutsano
Hey you can’t beat a lesbyterian country singer finding her inner zydeco:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuapCENFM2U
Ash Can
@gnomedad: Me too.
Ed in NJ
The Archie Mannings vs. the Peyton Mannings
I’ll take anything off Storyville by Robbie Robertson
JK
Dame Brett Somers Klugman Farvuruh
I think you meant Dame Brett Elke Somers Klugman Farvuruh Beans with Chianti.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syt8qQUbzVc
The Odd Couple rules
lamh31
WWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!@!!!
Who Dat Classic
asiangrrlMN
@Zam: MoveOn did, yes. And PETA. So, allowing Tebow’s commercial is pure bullshit.
JK
@Zam:
I don’t recall the specifics, but I vaguely remember some left leaning group being denied the opportunity to air a commercial during the Super Bowl. CBS can go fuck itself.
de stijl
I’m a Vikings fan and they totally deserved to lose.
I was almost embarrassed when they were about to win at the end of regulation. Yeah, I would have taken the W, but 17 or whatever turnovers when you’re playing away and at a dome.
Sheesh, that was ugly.
Zam
@asiangrrlMN: Awesome, I am so glad I get to live by different standards than my republican counterparts.
General Winfield Stuck
lakes of pontchartrain
charles pierce
Bobby Lounge — Take me Back To Abita Springs
RS
Black and Gold to the Superbowl!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLCy46NWO4s
It’s a cold day in Hell….
Comrade Kevin
You know what’s the best thing about this game being over?
Joe Buck’s season is over.
The Other Steve
That was a pretty close game.
Zam
From the link asiangrrl had. So how is Tebow’s not an issue piece?
lamh31
All season, no matter how well Saints played, they got no respect. We heard it all.. so win or lose maybe now we gonna get the respect we deserve!!!!!
Aredubya
I’d go with CCR, “Born on the Bayou”. Nasty riff, classic Fogerty vocal, great stuff all around.
Oh and Brett Favre, tee hee.
Yutsano
Of course you CANNOT do a Nawlins thread without including something from their native son:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpeM_s10g0s&feature=related
asiangrrlMN
@Comrade Kevin: Oh, shit. It’s Nanz and Simms. Sigh. Better than Buck, though. I hate Joe Buck.
BillCinSD
Baby Please Don’t Go — Big Joe Williams version
sweet old blues
DougJ
AKA Dad
The best part of the song is opening:
Now when I was just a little boy standin’ to my Daddy’s knee
my Poppa said son don’t let the man get you do what he done to me
’cause he’ll get you ’cause he’ll get you now now.
So true. The man will get you. And I mean that with no irony or snark.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
Thx for that link.
asiangrrlMN, Zam: Despite the outrageous, disgusting decision by CBS to air this fucking Tebow ad, we must not forget that CBS is a Trotskyite organization according to people like Joe Scarborough, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Bill O’Reilly.
DougJ
Baby Please Don’t Go—Big Joe Williams version
Solid. A worthy competitor.
Comrade Luke
Louisiana 1927.
Comrade Kevin
@DougJ: Composed by John Fogerty, who grew up in the backwoods country of Berkeley, California!
Lisa K.
@JK:
I don’t disagree, but it is making me roll my eyes more than anything. Most football fans are not going to want to see this crap during the biggest sports event of the year. We watch sports to get away from garbage like this.
meh
Or this one
DougJ
@DougJ: Composed by John Fogerty, who grew up in the backwoods country of Berkeley, California!
Actually El Cerrito.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
I hope you remembered to remove all sharp objects from your apartment prior to the start of the Vikings Saints game.
Andy K
Dr. John , Professor Longhair , Earl King and The Meters
Big Chief
DougJ
Louisiana 1927.
Yes, great also. I’d go with it but Randy Newman is a well-off LA songwriter now whereas James Booker died prematurely in the streets like a real genius should (like Paul Morphy).
Comrade Kevin
@DougJ: El Cerrito, Berkeley, whatever. East Bay suburbs, one with an inflated ego.
AkaDad
@DougJ:
You da man! Oh wait…
JK
@Lisa K.:
What drives me crazy is the stunning hypocrisy of CBS and how every right wing asshole like Limbaugh et al continues to claim with a straight face that CBS and the rest of the MSM are a bunch of Maoists, Trotskyites, and Anarchists.
de stijl
I hate Joe Buck.
Ratso is pretty annoying too.
Texpunk
It’s kinda dark . . .
but “St. James Infirmary Blues” is my all time favorite blues song.
Andy K
I have no idea whatsoever why my last went into mod.
DougJ
but “St. James Infirmary Blues” is my all time favorite blues song.
Great too, I agree.
bubba
Got the wrong Randy Newman song. Rednecks.
Geaux LSU.
Lisa K.
@JK:
I do not expect anything better from any of them, actually. Maybe that is why I am more cynically amused than outrgaed this time.
Andy K
Lee Dorsey
Give It Up
Comrade Luke
@DougJ: Agreed. I also like the Aaron Neville version. Hopefully they’ll have him or Connick perform it if they choose to do so.
We’re in for two weeks of jambalaya…
arguingwithsignposts
DougJ, is it too late to throw out some beausoleil: parlez-nous a boire? Let’s talk about drinking, not about marriage.
DougJ
Lee Dorsey
Everything I do is funky like Lee Dorsey.
arguingwithsignposts
@Comrade Luke:
That’s also a very good song. I weep whenever I hear it.
JK
@Texpunk:
There’s a great performance of this song on a very, very, old episode of Saturday Night Live.
Yutsano
@arguingwithsignposts: So why don’t we get drunk and screw? I think that a bit more Jimmy Buffet there.
NobodySpecial
No linky for you due to time pressures, but I enjoy the Nawlins flavor of ‘Sit Down Servant’ by Mike Farris.
DougJ
Got the wrong Randy Newman song.
Rednecks is one of the great, great albums of all time. Guilty is on there too, I think.
And the opener is great. Free to be put in a cage in the south side of Chicago.
JK
Stormy Monday – Allman Brothers Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TLchQby5lI
DougJ
Stormy Monday – Allman Brothers Band
Great version but got to go with Bobby Bland.
bubba
@arguingwithsignposts
Great suggestion Already got my plans for Mardi Gras in Layfayette.
arguingwithsignposts
@arguingwithsignposts: BTW, just to add to my comment, I grew up in Southeast Texas, and thus was raised on cajun from an early age. I used to joke that if Texas ever got in a war with Louisiana, SE Texas would be lost on the first day because of the Boudreaux and Thibodeaux influence in our area. But there were a lot of zydeco/creole bands who never made it big who played all throughout that area, people like BooZoo Chavis and the aforementioned Beausoleil. Like the bluegrass folks on the east coast, they never made a huge amount of money, but they made a lot of people dance. And I am grateful for that. lese lez bon ton roule!
ETA: i would KILL for some decent boudain right now, with some crackers. mmmm. mmm.
Task Force Ripper
DougJ you do understand you’re really a 60+ year old black male, right?
JK
@DougJ:
The Allman Brothers’ At the Fillmore East is, without question, one of the greatest concert albums of all-time.
mclaren
“Hip Deep In the Big Muddy.” Which is basically where America finds itself.
BillCinSD
@DougJ: I like the 1935 version quite a bit too.
bubba
@arguingwithsignposts
Married one. Lived in southwest Louisiana for 8 years, that didn’t work but married another one. Ledet and Leger.
I’ll drink an Abita to you as I’m munching on boudin and crawfish in a few weeks.
Alan B
Love James Booker but the quientessial New Orleans album for my money is the George Landry/Meters/Neville Bros/Allen Toussaint mardi gras indian album – The Wild Tchoupitoulas. Every song is great, it never gets old and it always makes me happy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVYMEpA1RGI&feature=related
arguingwithsignposts
@bubba:
Dammit, don’t even bring up the crawfish. I miss me some crawfish boils.
Bubbbbaaaaa!!!!
ETA: my step-dad makes a mean gumbo, with whatever meat he can put in the pot – shrimp, chicken, dear, whatever. mmmmm. mmmmm. Gumbo.
Yutsano
@arguingwithsignposts: Are you anywhere near a good sized river? If so you should go mudbug huntin’!
lamh31
One last thought from the Saints vs Vikings game tonight:
I’m thinking that the Saints this season had the opposite experience that the Cowboy had. What I mean is based on the Saints history, no one really believe that the Sains had what it took even while there were winning. The Cowboys cause of their champioship history was given more of a chance even after defeat after defeat. To me it’s a leasson that history is in the past, it’s what you do right now that gonna matter tomorrow.
Anyway, good night ya’ll.
arguingwithsignposts
@Yutsano:
Sadly, no. the largest nearby river is the embarrass (pronounced embra). There’s not enough coonass gene here to save me. :(
Yutsano
@arguingwithsignposts: I live right next to the third largest river in the US, the rocks are crawling with mudbugs, yet no one here catches them and eats them.
charles pierce
Take Me Back To Abita Springs — Bobby Lounge
(Gimme a Turbodog, dammit!)
arguingwithsignposts
@Yutsano:
We desperately need to have a BJ crawfish boil, then. Toss some potatoes and corn cobs in the pot, get the music rollin’ and have us a grand ole time. what river are you talking about, btw? Our Tunch shirts should be the icing on the cake.
Yutsano
@arguingwithsignposts: The Columbia. Of course we get salmon runs that only natives get rights to, so we have to take what we can get. Though if you catch them in the ocean you can haul in five of the suckers and they’re HUGE! Best salmon you’ll ever have in your life.
BTW I am all about a good ol’ fashioned crawdad boil. Heh. Crawdad is in the Firefox spell catcher as correct.
arguingwithsignposts
@Yutsano: Hmmm. I’m likely going to be in Minneapolis this summer, but other than that won’t be near the columbia unless it’s near texas.
Yutsano
@arguingwithsignposts: The Columbia runs south through Washington then turns west until it hits the Pacific just west of Portland, so no.
xian
@DougJ: between your excellent taste in New Orleans piano perfessors and Cole’s Deadheadedness, I’m starting to understand why I feel this site is so simpatico for me!
One or the other or both of you may enjoy a nice copy of the elusive Booker-rehearsing-with-the-Jerry-Garcia-band recordings from ’76, which I would be happy to render to you.
mandarama
I gotta throw in for Cowboy Mouth. Pretty much anything is good.
CDT
Professor Longhair or, if you want live, Henry Butler’s version of “Tipitina’s.”
scarshapedstar
At least I have something to take my mind off politics. I might never give a fuck again, ever.
Time to buy some Mardi Gras beads for the Super Bowl. Yeah, I’m gonna be trolling Bourbon. :D
WHO DAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Incertus
@Andy K: Took 69 comments for someone to mention the good Professor, but thanks for doing it.
About that Tebow ad, I wonder how many of the employees Focus on the Family cut loose a few months ago feel about their former bosses dropping big bucks on a Superbowl commercial?
Incertus
@mandarama: I will admit to liking Cowboy Mouth and that I have seen them in concert a couple of times. But they’re also guilty of one of the most heinous puns in the history of music. From the song “Jenny Says”: My name is Cain and I am now unable. Yeesh.
arguingwithsignposts
I would be remiss if I didn’t throw in a little Buckwheat Zydeco: Ya Ya.
Frank L
Bobby Charles/The Band – Down South in New Orleans
machine
“Cajun Rage” by Little Feat.
Steeplejack
The Meters, “Fire on the Bayou.”
Funkify Your Life. All you need right dere.
Also check out “Cissy Strut,” “Zony Mash” and their instrumental of “Stormy.” Oh, hell, it’s all good.
Steeplejack
@DougJ:
New Orleans stride piano always makes me think of Long John Baldry–“Don’t Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll.”
Haven’t listened to that in a long time. I love YouTube.
PTirebiter
Randy Newman- New Orleans Wins The War
“People have fun here, and I think that they should
But nobody from here ever come to no good
They’re gonna pickle him in brandy and tell him he’s saved
Then throw fireworks all ’round his grave”
Dayv
“House of the Rising Sun”
There’s a reason it’s so overplayed: it’s a really great song.
Here it is by a few different performers:
Woody Guthrie
Flower Travellin’ Band (obscure Japanese rock bands FTW)
Of course, the definitive version:
The Animals
Steeplejack
@Dayv:
Great song! I forgot that one, and the Animals are one of my favorite old bands.
PTirebiter
@Steeplejack:
There’s a great rendition on Bob Dylan’s first album as well.
john
Bobby Lounge
Take Me Back To Abita Springs = brilliant