New Orleans

New Orleans' musical landmarks are many, but they mainly encompass jazz (and, no matter what the national media keeps insisting, there's never been a real blues scene here). But from approximately 1954-1975, New Orleans was one of the premier rock and roll cities in America, birthing R&B, godfathering soul, and helping invent funk. We already know what damage Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the ensuing flood wrought on The City That Care Forgot, but when it comes to the city's rock landmarks, then and now, no one gives them the attention they're due. Did the cradles and breeding grounds of New Orleans rock -some of the most musically important and fertile areas in the history of America -make out okay?