Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on the morning of Monday, August 29, 2005. It was a Category 4 storm which exceeded the design limit of the levees (Category 3). The flooding recalled the great flood of 1927.
[played 2007] Robert Earl Keen\ Hello New Orleans\ Gravitational Forces\ Lost Highway Del Rey\ When the Levee Breaks\ When the Levee Breaks\ Hobemian Rodney Crowell w/Emmylou Harris\ Shelter From the Storm\ The Outsider\ Sugar Hill The Wilders\ When the Levee's Gone\ Throw Down\ Rural Grit Lucinda Williams\ Crescent City\ Epon.\ Koch John McCutcheon\ Hope Dies Last\ This Fire\ Appalsongs Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen / Hurricane / Being There / Anais Mitchell, Out of Pawn, The Brightness Hawkeye Herman\ Katrina, Oh Katrina (Hurricane Blues) Bob Dylan\ The Levee's Gonna Break\ Modern Times\ Columbia Eileen Jewell\ The Flood\ Boundary County\ Self The Wilders\ When the Levee's Gone\ Throw Down\ Rural Grit Bill Staines\ Louisiana Storm\ The Second Million Miles Randy Newman\ Louisiana 1927 (also covered by Old School Freight Train, Marcia Ball) Tom Rush\ Galveston Flood\ Best of Tim O'Brien\ House of the Rising Sun\ Cornbread Nation Pete Seeger\ House of the Rising Sun\ American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2\ Smithsonian/Folkways Bob Dylan\ Shelter From the Storm (also done by Rodney Crowell) Michelle Shocked\ Evacuation Route\ Don't Ask Don't Tell Nanci Griffith\ Wasn't That A Mighty Storm\ Other Voices Too Memphis Minnie\ When the Levee Breaks\ Queen of the Blues\ Yazoo Bob Franke\ Alleluia, The Great Storm is Over\ The Other Evening in Chicago\ Waterbug Jimmie Rodgers\ My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans\ The Early Years\ Rounder The Carter Family\ The Storms are on the Ocean\ Anchored in Love\ Rounder Blind Lemon Jefferson\ Rising High Water Blues\ Blind Lemon Jefferson\ Milestone Woody Guthrie\ I Ain't Got No Home in this World Anymore\ Hard Travelin'\ Smithsonian/Folkways Bing Bang Boys\ Creole Bell\ I'm Feelin' Good\ Rubinchik Doc Watson\ Deep River Blues\ Legacy\ High Windy Dave Van Ronk\ St. James Infirmary\ Two Sides\ Fantasy Cathy Barton & Dave Para\ Levee Breakdown/Jefferson City Hornpipe\ Crazy Quilt\ Self (instrumental) Mississippi John Hurt\ Make Me A Pallet on Your Floor\ Today!\ Vanguard Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald\ I've Got To Know\ Fool's Paradise\ Freewheel Hurricane - Phil Rosenthal "A Matter of Time", Sierra-Hollywood Like A Hurricane – Chris Hillman
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