Tuesdays Roundup - with the Radiators
b'Affordable Podcasting $5.99 a month includes Web Hosting\\n\\nSuppport The Classic Blues at Music Maker\\n\\nBuy Your 50 mp3 classic radio shows for $5.00 inclues shipping\\n\\nLike the other great album to come out of post-Katrina New Orleans, Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello\\u2019s The River in Reverse, the Radiators\\u2019 latest consists mainly of songs written before the deluge. But the long-running Crescent City band catch a definite sense of time and place on this disc, which was recorded in the studio during the first post-hurricane Mardi Gras. Many of the lyrics sound too appropriate to be accidental, especially the opening \\u201cAce in the Hole\\u201d (\\u201cWhen the big wind blows chilly and cold, the wise fool flies south\\u201d) and the closing \\u201cShine Tonight\\u201d (\\u201cWe\\u2019re all in the same boat, it sunk without a trace\\u201d). It also makes sense that the band sound even more New Orleans\\u2013ish than usual, adding sax on the \\u201950s-style jukebox rocker \\u201cRollercoaster\\u201d and banjo on the Preservation Hall homage \\u201cDesdemona.\\u201d The overall mood is more intense than usual for these guys, notably on the Richard Thompson\\u2013esque \\u201cDon\\u2019t Pray for Me\\u201d and the sexy/swampy \\u201cRub It In\\u201d \\u2014 the first time the standout track on a Radiators disc has been a love song. Their trademark two-guitar workouts are kept tight enough to serve the songs, and the mood is muted but still celebratory. The chanted choruses that close \\u201cShine Tonight\\u201d attest to a city \\u2014 or at least a few individual souls \\u2014 slowly coming back to life.'