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..."Tipitina," which I found really moving. I went away, wrote something for it and came back and sang it over what became 'Ascension Day:' By the end of the day we had three more songs, all different. | |||
''IE: The album was recorded initially in Hollywood with members of each of your bands, the Imposters and the Crescent City Horns. What was it like when you moved the recording to New Orleans? | |||
EC: I'm glad that we got to take some of the music there. It was good to show people that it can be done and they shouldn't be fearful. But it was also a very chastening experience. We went down into the worst areas, not to be morbid but to see with our own eyes what had gone on. It was pretty devastating. We got within 50 yards of where the levee had been breached. There simply wasn't any work going on. It's very sad to see people's possessions still in trees and cars on top of houses and such. You can't help but have it affect you. | |||
''IE: Elvis, I gather it was your anger about the situation that sparked a couple of the album's most powerful songs, including the title track and "Broken Promise Land:' which you cowrote with Allen. | |||
EC: There were some dreadful — shameful — failures at every level of administration, from the city right up to the administration in Washington. The title track is about a general tide of selfish, wrong-headed thinking that needs to be turned around. "Broken Promise Land" was triggered by the blasphemy of supposed Christians who said that what happened in New Orleans was a judgement on its sinfulness. I think that was extraordinarily arrogant. The charity part of Christianity seems to have been edited out While we're very hot on all the Old Testament, 'eye for an eye' stuff right now were not so hot on the forgiveness and understanding part. I'm not cynical, I'm just very deeply sceptical about dark forces in the political world. But Allen's optimism had a good effect on me, quite leavening. | |||
''IE: A final word about New Orleans, its significance and future? | |||
EC: The way the society developed there is out of step with everywhere else. The city continues to be out of step, in a good way and a really bad way. Its a fascinating place. In some ways, its unique and completely distinct from America. In other ways, it's the epitome of all the contradictions of America. And so much utterly great music has come from it. | |||
AT: I have no doubt that New Orleans is coming back. This is just an intermission. Its spirit is much too strong for it to disappear. | |||
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