Hooray for Tuesday's MP3: Essex Green's New Orleans

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Hooray for Tuesday's MP3: Essex Green's New Orleans

Published Tuesday, August 29, 2006 by Jeff | E-mail this post

As you will no doubt be reminded dozens of times today, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans exactly one year ago. In memory of the event, today's MP3 is "New Orleans," from The Essex Green's self-titled EP, and brought to you with the blessing of the band. When the EP was released in 1999, The Essex Green was a slightly larger group: joining Christopher Ziter, Jeffrey Baron, and Sasha Bell were Michael Barrett and Timothy Barnes. The lineup was almost interchangeable with the countrified sister band The Sixth Great Lake (which featured Zachary Ward), and "New Orleans" would fit right in on a Sixth Great Lake album, sounding very Nashville. In fact, the song had appeared on the album released by the Green's previous incarnation, Guppyboy, in rougher form, and that version is included today as a bonus. (Thanks to Chris Y. for providing that MP3.)

New Orleans (The Essex Green)
New Orleans (Guppyboy)