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February 26th, 2009
Music in New Orleans
by Jeff Guhin

It’s still not back.

The history of musicians dealing with the storm’s aftermath has been a mixed one. In the year after Katrina, benefits around the country helped musicians get home, get instruments, and get back to work. Then again, at Voodoo 2006, Duran Duran’s Simon LeBon fretted from the stage over the devastation he saw on the drive from the airport — a corridor that looked more or less as it had pre-storm — and Wayne Coyne stopped the Flaming Lips’ set to instruct New Orleanians on the importance of helping each other, perhaps mowing each others’ lawns. Then and now, unmown lawns have been the least of the city’s worries.

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