It’s New Orleans: Happy Hour

Satan and The Gift of Happiness – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

If you can commit 60 minutes to listen to this Happy Hour all the way through, your life will be forever changed. This is not some sort of idle claim, or a pitch for money, or a time-share condo. It’s spiritual enlightenment. The real deal. Just like you could spend your entire life searching for,…

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Little Wheel Keep On Turnin’ – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Creedence Clearwater Revival and Tina Turner would be proud of Galen Huckins, skipper of The Channel Princess, a plucky little river boat that Galen dredged off the bottom of the Willamette River way up in Portland and piloted all the way down the Mississippi River to the Industrial Canal in New Orleans where it, and…

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The Right to Bear Pies – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Gwen Thompkins is host of the authoritative and quintessential New Orleans music show, Music Inside Out, on NPR station WWNO. Gwen’s tenure in Sudan and East Africa as cash-toting bureau chief in that neck of the woods has given her a wide worldview out of which has come her solution to the debate over guns…

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Put It On The Vision Board – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

At the beginning of this conversation artist Myesha Francis tells the table that everything she wished for by writing it on her “vision board” at the beginning of 2015 came to be by the end of the year, except one thing. In the next 60 minutes, by sheer chance, Myesha’s last remaining goal is going…

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Why Did The Accordion Player Have a Nervous Breakdown? – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

In the next 60 minutes you’re going to hear how a relatively successful New York City accordion player broke down on stage, became a Buddhist cult leader, and inadvertently gave birth to the Gwendolyn Molson Quartet. Leslie Molson tells the story and many more besides, including how she cured having a fat face and tiny…

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