Oh, My Nola - Harry Connick, Jr. Connick brought a television crew with him as he traveled through his damaged hometown and shot footage to help draw attention to the situation. Soon after, he organized the benefit telethon A Concert for Hurricane Relief on NBC to raise money for the beleaguered residents of New Orleans. It was clear through all of this that Connick truly loved his hometown and perhaps even felt he owed the city a debt for all it had given to him. In that light, though he tastefully underplays his feelings about the tragedy, Connick's Oh, My Nola is clearly his response to Hurricane Katrina. But rather than making a one- note album filled with anger and sadness - - though he expresses those emotions here, too - - Oh, My Nola feels at once like a party- driven celebration of all that is New Orleans and a love letter to the city he almost lost. Featuring songs from, of, and about New Orleans, Oh, My Nola touches on almost every musical style that has come from the city and, in a similar sense, every style Connick has delved into over the years. For that reason it's both his most expansive and personal album to date, and finally finds the pianist/vocalist/arranger coalescing his eclectic tastes in jazz standards, stride piano, funk, Cajun, gospel, and contemporary pop under a unified vision that not surprisingly takes him back to the roots of New Orleans music. Similarly inventive, he does Hughie Cannon's traditional . But while these numbers showcase Connick's obvious talent for arranging and crafting large ensemble numbers, other cuts such as the traditional . Mixing this approach, Connick once again returns to Toussaint with the spiritual and motivational . Always a student of American popular song, it's no surprise that Connick's original compositions stand up next to the classic tracks here; however, it's also on these originals that he moves toward expressing his anger over what happened to the city. On the half- improvised, stark, and funky . However, listening to the whole of Oh, My Nola, it becomes clear that the true protest Connick is concerned with is a protest of the soul against events that conspire to erase all that we hold dear. This is best expressed in Connick's own title track. Set to a simple midtempo traditional New Orleans jazz beat, he sings. Oh, My Nola is Harry Connick Jr.'s response to Hurricane Katrina. It's a great album, full of inventive arrangements of familiar songs, exciting instrumental solos. Harry Connick, Jr talks about first days after. New Orleans in the days after Hurricane Katrina. Connick says he used the. Harry Connick Jr, Hurricane. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Oh, My Nola - Harry Connick, Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Buy Hurricane (Album Version): Read Digital Music Reviews - Amazon.com. Harry Connick Jr - Hurricane (traducci HURRICANE LYRICS by HARRY CONNICK, JR.: Hurricane, hurricane / Can't remember memory lane / Asked me once and I tell you the same / Hurricane, hurricane. Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment Hurricane . A Concert for Hurricane Relief was an hour-long, celebrity-driven benefit concert broadcast live on September 2, 2005. Sponsored by the NBC Universal Television Group. ![]()
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