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Lester_leaps_in
03-03-2007, 05:19 PM
Last Father's Day, my daughter gave me a copy of "Song For My Fathers: A New Orleans Story In Black And White" by Tom Sancton. Bless her heart.
What a great book! It's a memoir of a young white boy who loved music and the Quarter, especially Preservation Hall, and who was nurtured by the PH regulars of his time. It's loaded with great pictures, and with great anecdotes of NOLA in the 50's and 60's, including a wonderful picture of George Lewis ("Burgundy Street Blues").
I think that "Song For My Father" should be required reading for anyone interested in New Orleans.
Have any of you read it? Do you concur?
funkkjunkie
03-03-2007, 06:08 PM
havent heard of it but will add it to my book list. I'm gonna bump another thread for ya, lester, the book thread.
Lester_leaps_in
03-03-2007, 07:18 PM
Thank you, O Funkie One. I see that Papins has already listed this book over there.
NYMAMA
03-04-2007, 09:11 AM
Last Father's Day, my daughter gave me a copy of "Song For My Fathers: A New Orleans Story In Black And White" by Tom Sancton. Bless her heart.
What a great book! It's a memoir of a young white boy who loved music and the Quarter, especially Preservation Hall, and who was nurtured by the PH regulars of his time. It's loaded with great pictures, and with great anecdotes of NOLA in the 50's and 60's, including a wonderful picture of George Lewis ("Burgundy Street Blues").
I think that "Song For My Father" should be required reading for anyone interested in New Orleans.
Have any of you read it? Do you concur?
Got that book for CHRISTMAS AND LOVED IT. YOU COULD JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES AND FEEL THE QUARTER AND pRESERVATION HALL.
Festvet
03-05-2007, 06:04 PM
Thanks for the tip. I'd also recommend Literary new Orleans (collection of short stories), The Moviegoer (walker Percy), Managing Ignatius (Jerry Strahan) and this one I came across today looks intersting: French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia
pokerchick66
03-05-2007, 07:58 PM
The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley.
Run to your nearest bookstore or library and GET IT.
Managing Ignatius is good. Also, one of my favs is Fabulous New Orleans by Lyle Saxon.
I personally loved The Donkey Show by Michael Patrick Welch and Blue Monday by Coleman.