Bruce Springsteen — Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2006
Recorded April 30, 2006
Fair Grounds Race Course · New Orleans · 
United States
Setlist
Wrong timestamp?
Tour albumWe Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions2006 · Seeger SessionsReleased five days before the festival, the album supplies the base of traditional songs Springsteen takes on the road with the Sessions Band.“To see the Sessions Band's festival debut in a New Orleans bringing back Jazz Fest after Katrina.”
Context
Eight months after Katrina, New Orleans is still living with the destruction when Jazz Fest returns to the Fair Grounds. On April 30, 2006, Springsteen arrives with the Sessions Band and a newly released album. It is not an E Street Band reunion: it is twenty musicians in front of a festival crowd.
Fiddles, banjo, horns and voices share the stage on O Mary Don't You Weep, John Henry and Pay Me My Money Down. Springsteen also brings Johnny 99 and Open All Night. Introducing How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?, he describes his visit to the devastated neighborhoods and denounces the government's response to the disaster.
My City of Ruins opens the encore and finds another home in the wounded city. When the Saints Go Marching In closes the performance before the tour moves on to Europe. The recording gets an official audio release in 2017 and reaches the public in full as a film in 2019, preserving this meeting between musical renewal and rebuilding.
- My City of Ruins opens the encore before a city still marked by destruction.
Lineup at this show
The lineup of this performance — not necessarily the current one.
- Bruce SpringsteenVocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica
- Sam BardfeldFiddle
- Art BaronTuba
- Frank BrunoAcoustic guitar and backing vocals
- Jeremy ChatzkyUpright bass
- Larry EagleDrums
- Clark GaytonTrombone
- Charles GiordanoPiano, organ and accordion
- Curtis KingBacking vocals
- Greg LisztBanjo
- Lisa LowellBacking vocals
- Eddie ManionSaxophone
- Cindy MizelleBacking vocals
- Mark PenderTrumpet
- Curt RammTrumpet
- Marty RifkinPedal steel guitar
- Richie La Bamba RosenbergTrombone
- Patti ScialfaAcoustic guitar and vocals
- Marc Anthony ThompsonAcoustic guitar and vocals
- Soozie TyrellFiddle and backing vocals
Trivia
Springsteen visits neighborhoods hit by Katrina the day before the show.
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? keeps Blind Alfred Reed's first verse and gets three new verses from Springsteen.
According to setlist.fm records, My City of Ruins returns to the stage for the first time since 2003.
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