|
Not long after they got back from evacuation, Eric Orlando and Marc Belloni, local singers and songwriters, listened with mutual admiration to each other's songs written about Katrina. They had heard that a few other area songwriters had written storm-related songs as well, and an idea was born: record a CD to help fellow musicians who had suffered losses.
One day Susan Cowsill came in and sang backup for Orlando's song. Asked if she would be interested in contributing a song of her own to the CD, she said yes, and all of a sudden, the list of people interested in contributing grew.
Entertainers such as Anders Osborne, Fred LeBlanc and Paul Sanchez of Cowboy Mouth, John "Papa" Gros of Papa Grows Funk, Mark Adam Miller and Caleb Guillotte of Deadeye Dick, Marc Carson of Murmurs, to name a few, got on board.
"We didn't know if we asked 20 people, we'd get 20 songs," said Orlando. But they did.
Both Orlando, owner of the Carrollton Station bar, and Belloni, a lawyer by day, were among Orleanians who received minimal or no storm damage to their homes. But most of the entertainers who combined to record the recently released CD "Feeder Bands on the Run" were not as fortunate.
Beyond their material losses, Cowsill suffered the loss of a brother.
. . . . .
|
