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Performing French Quarter Fest 2015. Photo by Stephen Maloney

Alex McMurray Talks Back

October 29, 2020 by: John Swenson

After the forced evacuation of New Orleans in 2005, some of the earliest returnees were musicians who came back after an exile that convinced them there was no place on earth that would nurture their music better than the beautiful Crescent.

 

The art that some of them created was great, in some cases astonishingly so, as a new era of New Orleans music emerged, fired in the Biblical crucible of a literal ...

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