How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
August 29, 2012, 4:56 pm
Posted by Luke Hill
For many musicians, New Orleans is as close to sacred ground as you can get in these United States.
New Orleans holds Congo Square, the only place in the antebellum South where slaves could and did regularly gather to drum and to dance.
New Orleans produced Louis Armstong, whose use of the backbeat revolutionized popular music worldwide and is the basis for his claim to the title of “Most Influential Musician Of The 20th Century”.
Jazz was born in New Orleans. (The word “jazz” itself is likely derived from Gaelic.) As was “The Queen of Gospel”, Mahalia Jackson.
