There was segregated unions, which was a real problem for me because - especially as I was working in the recording scene, I had flack from the white union for hiring black musicians. I had flack from the black musician by hiring white musicians.
That's one of the reason T-Bone Burnett calls me... he thinks I'm used to doing what I do in the studio for him.
Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated, wrapped around itself in ways that aren't always obvious.
Right after Katrina, we did 'Sippiana Hericane.' I was real upset with everything.
It's obvious some people don't have an emotional thing for the music.
