ReDefine 8/29
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YOU KNOW THAT NINETY NINE cents you were about to blow on i-tunes? The nonprofit New Orleans Musician's Relief Fund, which help the city's players rebuild livelihoods destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, has a better idea; seventeen topically acute mp3s by Crescent City stars and out-of-town friends. Kaiser Chiefs donate "Out of My Depth, a fine new stomp that sounds like a pissed-off Badfinger, and Doctor John is among the locals singing for his neighbors. Ian Hunter's "How's Your House" comes in video form; grim newsreels of the devastation that show why projects like this are still necessary, two years after the flood. David Fricke
Rolling Stone Magazine
NOMRF's ReDefine 8/29 Download
NEW 2009 Reload Tracks!
Get All 20 Songs For Your $18.29 Donation
Through these amazing songs, the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund, Inc. can continue its efforts. This summer NOMRF was able to distribute: 14 guitars, 2 baby grand pianos; 6 horns, 1 bass drum and an evacuation vehicle. The charity is honored to havelocal and international legends offer the following: Dream Warrior - Dr. John; When The World Was Round - Ian Hunter; South Central Rain Live from Dublin - REM; Start Treating People Right - Dave Pirner; One Two What You Gonna Do - James Andrews; Kid - Barry Cowsill; Blow Your Horn - Chicago Farmer; The Places We Lived - Backyard Tire Fire; Darkest Part Of The Night - Jimmy Robinson; Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Susan Cowsill; Who Can I Turn To - Twangorama; The Feather - Rev. Goat Carson; Give Me Something I Can Hold On To - John Thomas Griffith; Long Black Line - Spencer Bohren; Hold Out A Hand - Edwin McCain and Maia Sharp; Poor Man's Paradise - Johnny Sansone; Rains Around Here - The dBs; Brand New Old House - Beatin Path; Lord Willing - Joe Topping;and If Ever I Cease To Love - John Rankin.
Ian Hunter's How's Your House video is stll available on our MySpace.com/nomrf page. NOMRF respects your privacy and will not sell or distribute your contact information. Verisign is a secure merchant checkout. Upon purchase, you will receive an automated email with a link to all the track. We now also accept PayPal on the checkout platform, and each PayPal download link will be emailed within 24 hours of purchase.
Thank you to the artists and their management teams for allowing us to benefit from these wonderful tracks.
To commemorate 8/29, NOMRF is offering these 20 songs for an $18.29 donation. An email with download link will be sent upon purchase. Thanks for your Support!
Orig. Price:
$38.29
Sale Price:
$18.29
When the Saints Go Marching Out
From The Economist: "The New Orleans Musicians' Relief Fund album will be called “ReDefine 8/29”, referring to the day New Orleans was evacuated. Jeff Beninato, the musician who founded NOMRF, says that the title could not refer directly to the hurricane. 'If they hear Katrina, they'll think, ‘I don't want to hear that; that's old news.' "But spare a thought for that most iconic of New Orleans institutions, the funeral with music. A brass band playing sombre dirges leads the mourners and the body tearfully through the streets, from church to cemetery. The body goes into the ground, and the tone changes: the music becomes upbeat, and the mourners turn to revellers, celebrating the life of the departed. Neither Dixieland nor New Orleans is yet a corpse, of course, but nowhere else is quite as adept at wringing joy from tragedy."
The New York Times interviewed NOMRF Founders for its Katrina musician article, Entertainment Weekly has also covered the Fund with an REM Video, and we're nominanted for this year's PayPal Impact Award. Stay Tuned for Sony Playstation Little Big Planet / Von Dutch details from the Voodoo Music Experience.
