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Whistling Past the Graveyard: The gospel according to Luke Spurr Allen

May 30, 2017 by: John Swenson

Luke Spurr Allen has patience. It’s a quality that might be mistaken in a city other than New Orleans for inertia, but in the somnabulant byways of his adopted city, where many greet the day only because they’ve been up all night, Allen’s patience could well be viewed as a kind of ambition.

The somnambulist tradition is second nature to the legions of barflies, bartenders and music...

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