NON-PROFIT ORG U.S. POSTAGE Relief Foundation PAID www.musicmaker.org PERMIT #10 DURHAM, NC Eno Valley Station 27701 PO Box 72222 Durham, NC 27722-2222 Newsletter Credits: Written by Timothy & Denise Duffy, Design by Amy Nolan The Music Maker Rag is published by Music Maker Relief Foundation, Inc. email: [email protected] © 2006 MMRF. All Rights Reserved. Music Maker Relief Foundation strives to help the true Board of Directors Advisory Board Sue Foley Music Maker Programs pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern music gain Timothy Duffy - President B.B. King Colonel Bruce Hampton Musician Sustenance - grants to meet basic recognition and meet their day to day needs.We support Denise Duffy Bonnie Raitt Pura Fé life needs and emergency relief. Levon Helm Ken Shepherd Musical Development - grants and services the health and well being of these legendary musicians. Taj Mahal Ryan Costello Dickey Betts Kenny Wayne Shepherd for recipient artist professional development and Our organization provides the ways and means to expand Jimmy Herring Jerry Harrison career advancement. their professional careers and share their unique musical Daniel “Mudcat” Dudeck Derek Trucks Pete Townshend Cultural Access - supports the preservation Bill Puckett gifts with the world. Music Maker does this for the better- Susan Tedeschi Lightnin’ Wells and proliferation of American musical traditions. Henry Slyker ment of their lives and for the preservation of our culture. Carey Williams John Price New Orleans Musician’s Fund - assis- Blaine Wright Tom Rankin David Thurber, Jr. MD tance to musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina. ANNUAL REPORT Winter 2006 REPORT ANNUAL ol. 11, No. 4 V THE MUSIC MAKER RELIEF FOUNDATION Musicians explain By DAVID MENCONI Raleigh News & Observer, 07-DEC-05 what it means to miss New Orleans Burly balladeer Aaron Neville never made it Katrina hit, requests are still coming in from peo- back home before Hurricane Katrina hit New ple on the Gulf Coast who need help moving, Orleans in late August. Out on tour, he experi- rebuilding or paying rent because they can't enced the devastation from a distance, watching work. on television as the flood ravaged his hometown. Now, he wonders whether he'll ever again call "We've taken on 85 people in the last two the city home. weeks," says Music Maker head Tim Duffy. "It got to where we finally had to cap it because we "It's going to be a long, long time before New weren't raising enough money to help everybody. Orleans will be livable again," Neville says, speak- We raised $150,000, but it still wasn't enough. ing by phone from his current residence in We're still getting four or five calls a day, and Nashville. "My house was under water, and now they're all legit. It's really disheartening.A lot of it's full of mold and mildew....I have asthma, and people are still in shock; they're not well psycho- the doctor told me I couldn't go down there. So logically. It's just rough. So we do our little part. I'll stick around here for a while. How long, I We've helped a dozen or so people really well. don't know." The others, we do what we can. More than any other American city, New "You would not believe," Duffy adds, "how grate- Orleans is defined by music. Memphis and ful some of these people are to get a $200 check Nashville have equally illustrious histories, but and a T-shirt.They say that's the only aid they've you have to go looking for music. In New received." Orleans, music finds you. Dixieland jazz and R&B, Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.shns.com blues and funk, Zydeco and Cajun, second-line street bands and sit-down jazz orchestras _ it's New Orleans Musician’s impossible to imagine the city without all its dif- ferent kinds of music. Fund Recipients Stafford Agee Robert Julian New Orleans Artists Alabama Slim and Little Freddie King,Atlanta, GA ©Duffy Louis Armstrong helped invent jazz in New Steve Allen Antoinette K-Doe Orleans, a torch that the Marsalis family and Humanity's fund for low-income families dis- called 'Yats,' because they're always asking each Keith Anderson Misha Kachkachishvili Harry Connick Jr. picked up. Irma Thomas, Dr. placed by Katrina.The show plays Durham's other, 'Where y'at, man?' But now, the standard Mark Anderson William Kennedy Anthony Anderson Doreen Ketchens John and other Big Easy legends still bring a Carolina Theatre on Wednesday. greeting you hear all the time is, 'How's ya Te r rance Andrews Ryan Klauber house?' It's still pretty devastated down there, touch of New Orleans wherever they sing and John Autin Joe Krown play the blues.And it wouldn't be Fat Tuesday in Branford Marsalis has likewise played a slew of the entire Gulf Coast area. It's still just gone, and Raphel Bas Freddie Lonzo New Orleans without the Neville Brothers' hurricane-relief shows, and his Marsalis Music it's not coming back.The need is still great." Otis Bazoon Bobby Love "Mardi Gras Mambo." label recently released the benefit compilation "A Cary B. Baksaeng Mano Celebration of New Orleans Music." Also just The state of everyone's house in New Orleans Gregory Bennett Zaza Marjanishvili But three months after Katrina flooded New out is "Our New Orleans:A Benefit Album for is largely a function of where they live in relation Sherrie Bias Jim Markway Orleans, the Crescent City's musical community the Gulf Coast" (Nonesuch Recordings), with to sea level.Those on higher ground came Eddie Bo Alonzo McAlpine Isaac Bolden Jim McCormick is still scattered across the country.The diaspora tracks by Allen Toussaint,Buckwheat Zydeco, Dr. through the storm in decent shape. Pianist Ellis Mark Braud Brice Miller John and others. Marsalis, patriarch of the acclaimed jazz family, of displaced musicians includes an army of lesser- David Brouillette Crazy Arms Mitchell known journeymen as well as the city's first fami- has already gone home.Trombonist Delfeayo Russ Brousard Brian Murray ly of funk, the Neville Brothers. Dr. John has made a charity album of his own. Marsalis' house sustained minimal damage, since Earle Brown Lesley Muscutt "Sippiana Hericane" (Blue Note Records) he lives on the third floor of a building in the Michael Bruce Warren Nabonne Like Aaron,Art Neville is living in Nashville and includes a classic New Orleans-style piano work- uptown part of the city. Drummer Jason Marsalis' Mark Brunello Jason Neville hasn't decided whether he'll go back. Cyril, who out called "Sweet Home New Orleans." Despite house was damaged but not destroyed; he's living Steve & Nancy Burtchaell Eric Nicholas Henry Butler Keith Nuccio performed in a T-shirt reading "Ethnic Cleansing the title and jaunty piano rhythms, "Sweet Home in an apartment while his house is restored. New Orleans" is as angry as it is mournful: Norman Caesar Walter “Fat Daddy” Payton in New Orleans" at a hurricane-relief benefit Ricky Caesar Bennie Pete "Politicians talking, each and every day /Promising "We all live uptown, so we were lucky," says show in New York, has settled in Austin,Texas, Rickie Castrillo Devin Phillips and says it's for good. Charles moved to help is comin' right away (yeah, you're right)." Delfeayo Marsalis. "Even so, the city is definitely Chuck Chaplin Big Mike Pierce Massachusetts years ago. not back to normal. It's really like anyone who's Thais Clark John Reeks Even angrier is a bootleg going around the ever suffered a major injury _ broken leg, broken Harry “Swamp Thang” Cook Steve Rohbock "New Orleans as we know it no longer exists Internet, "George Bush Doesn't Care About arm, anything.The city is still just in a state of Bert Cotton Brent Rose right now," Aaron Neville says. "It's a memory. Black People," which combines Kanye West's hit constant repair.And the majority of musicians Sullivan Dabney Jim “Roz” Rosnack Jonne Dendinger Steve Rudolph New Orleans has been gutted like you'd gut a single "Gold Digger" with the rapper's infamous here do not live uptown." televised statement about President Bush's Bobby DiTuillo Dewey Sampson chicken and take the heart and soul, more or Ernest Elly Jamil Sharif less, remove it and scatter it all around the coun- response to the disaster. Clubs and restaurants in the French Quarter are Lionel Ferbos Dinerral Shavers try.There's a lot of people who won't be able to open again, and the www.frenchquarter.com Web Louis Ford Tara Slessman go back because they can't afford to.They lost Blues harmonica player Roy "Mel" Melton calls site has an optimistic message: "We're all still Jereau Fournett Slewfoot everything, so they've got to stay where they North Carolina home, but he has plenty of con- here and more eager than ever to show you Keith Frazier Alabama Slim wound up and try to make ends meet as best nections to Louisiana. He used to live there, play- what joie de vivre really means in New Orleans." Smoky Greenwell Henri Smith they can." ing behind the propulsive rhythms of the late But the lower-lying neighborhoods such as the Clarence “Frogman” Henry Earl Smith, Jr. great "King of Zydeco" Clifton Chenier, and Lower Ninth Ward _ where housing was cheap- Corey Henry Derrick “Big Sexy” Tabb Jim & Martha Hession Stephanie Thompson nowadays he records for Louisiana Red Hot er, and most of the musicians who gave New If ever New Orleans needed a funeral parade, Alverez Huntley Earle Turbington it's now.And though the city itself is still largely Records.