New Orleans Between Poetry and the Blues

As a tourist your New Orleans is a party town a city of parades music festivals Mardi Gras jazz free-flowing booze and food. But there is more to her than this bon vivant façade. There is a deeper haunting side of New Orleans which the author unmasques and weaves into poetic tales of this once glorious city of faded hopes. Reduced to a court jester New Orleans is now a mere shadow of her former grandeur. Like Brigadoon on one fine day she may return but for now the glory that was once New Orleans aint there no mo.