Louisiana 1927

Randy Newman's song Louisiana 1927 about the great flooding of New Orleans - August 29th 2005 which became an anthem for the devastation from Hurricane Katrina. In the city the storm surge caused more than 50 breaches in drainage canal levees and also in navigational canal levees and precipitated the worst engineering disaster in the history of the United States. By August 31, 2005, 80% of New Orleans was flooded, with some parts under 15 feet (4.5 m) of water. Ninety percent of the residents of southeast Louisiana were evacuated in the most successful evacuation of a major urban area in the nation's history. Randy Newman is one of the great songwriters - no doubt. Find him out if you don't know that.


Martin Simpson does this with great feeling and style - as he always does. Listen to him here performing in California.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3nv4vdASBQ

Its a typically graceful and stylish accompaniment using a CGCFCD tuning which, though not hard on the fingerboard, requires subtle timing and intonation to make it move under the melody as Martin makes it. If you need the Tab it is available on his site
http://www.martinsimpson.com/

If you haven't played in this tuning before - once you have you will want to.