New Orleans Musicians' Clinic - Get You A Healin' Special Anniversary Re-Release (2010)

Tracklist

01. Pain In My Heart
02. Louisiana Medicine Man
03. Look What I Got
04. Don't You Feel My Leg (Don't You Make Me High)
05. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu
06. Smokin' Lung Blues
07. Virus Called The Blues
08. Sugar Butt
09. Da Medicine Man
10. Fit As A Fiddle
11. Get You A Healin'
12. Big Chief Donald Had A Heart Of Steel
13. Lost My House
14. Bad Case Of Love
15. I Love You? The Hypocondriaddict's Song
16. Poor Man's Paradise (NOMC Benefit Version)
17. Lester's Methadone Clinic [Explicit]
18. Nurse I'll Be Good: Otis Convalesces
19. I Want My Heart Back-Acoustic
20. Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You
21. The Cradle Did Rock (NOMC Benefit Version)
22. Wrong Heartbeat



Back in 1998, the New Orleans Musicians Clinic (NOMC) was formed to provide much-needed healthcare to the city's many musicians and their families. The clinic was the first such health initiative in the United States, and has served as an invaluable blueprint for other cities. The clinic is part of the New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation (NOMAF), which provides social and occupational assistance to over 1,800 struggling musicians in the Crescent City.

Shortly after the opening of the NOMC, the organization released the original Get You A Healin' CD, a twelve-track collection of New Orleans styled blues, jazz, and R&B that featured artists like Art Neville, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Irma Thomas, and Coco Robicheaux, among others. All the musicians donated their time and songs to this benefit album, which was intended to raise awareness of musician's health issues and maybe make a little much-needed cash for the clinic.

Flash forward a decade or so, and the ravages of Hurricane Katrina and its lengthy aftermath have wreaked havoc on New Orleans' musical heritage. With federal funding cuts and dwindling contributions due to the economy, the New Orleans Musicians Clinic is going back to the well one more time with an anniversary reissue of Get You A Healin'. The digital-only release will be available on iTunes, Amazon, and other retailers on August 24, 2010 and money raised from the sales of the digital album and individual tracks will be used to further the clinic's efforts.

For this anniversary reissue, the original twelve tracks on Get You A Healin' have been expanded by another ten new songs, the expanded album featuring the talents of the aforementioned artists as well as folks like guitarist Richard Thompson, Sonia Dada, the subdudes, Bonerama, Christine Ohlman (of the Saturday Night Band), and the great B.B. King, among others.

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