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The locals are always going to want the traditions to stay alive. I just hope we can do something about them politicians.

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Dr John

That this city has second lines – it’s something I’m proud of. When the bands come back from the cemetery, they’ll play something up – something like ‘I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead (You Rascal You)’ – that will bring the people back to life.

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The whole Lower Ninth Ward hasn’t really recovered, but I feel a good spirit in my heart that something is going on – music is coming back slowly.

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Dr John

Indigenous peoples was messed over. It was like a tradition here. We broke every treaty with them that ever was written. I think Andrew Jackson wanted to wipe them out.

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Dr John

It was the first time I was looking, really, right after the storm, that I saw maybe the amount of devastation that had happened in the Lower Ninth Ward. Where my friends lived, which was about six blocks from where the industrial canal was, houses was smashed into houses, and there were, like, four houses smashed together.

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Dr John

Right after Katrina, we did ‘Sippiana Hericane.’ I was real upset with everything.

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Dr John

Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated, wrapped around itself in ways that aren’t always obvious.

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Dr John

My dad always pointed out Louis Armstrong’s pad when we passed by there. And me and my dad were both proud Louis Armstrong was from New Orleans.

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That’s one of the reason T-Bone Burnett calls me… he thinks I’m used to doing what I do in the studio for him.

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Dr John

I had somebody call and make a joke about it: ‘Oh, Buddy Guy won the Grammy – You should have won.’ I said, ‘No. Buddy should have won it.’ He’s a very talented cat. And don’t forget, he’s my homeboy, too.

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I hung at the studio. Myself and James Booker and several other musicians, as kids, we just literally hung at the studio, hoping somebody would get sick or get hurt and that we’d get to sub for them.

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Dr John

When I first started, I didn’t know what I was doing. I was such a – like a kid that got into things before I was ready. I was like the original learning-on-the-job-experience guy. All I knew was, if I hired the best musicians, I got the best arranger, and got the right songs for the right singer, I had did my job correctly.

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