It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

Photographer Leon Morris has been coming to Jazz Fest from Australia for 22 years. In that time he s met a bunch of people and taken a bunch of photos. He s assembled a few hundred of his best shots into a coffee table book that s a homage to New Orleans and has come up with an imaginative title for it Homage New Orleans. Leon s book starts with words of encouragement from Dr. John that Leon lives by, and which we joyfully appropriated for this show "follow your heart or you re fu ked. As a testament to the power of the written word and the apparent inconsequential power of speech, we re allowed to say anything we liked on the podcast, but iTunes and Facebook after somebody complains which they inevitably do pull your stuff down if you use curse words in print. Chris Bradford looks like a million bucks but feels like a little less. She woke up one morning with a hemorrhaged vocal cord which not only sidelined her singing but required her to be absolutely silent for a month. The resident doctors on Happy Hour