New Orleans used to be my Mecca. Party town, USA.
Then it got too crowded, and you were just as likely to get anonymously stabbed in a crowd as to get drunk and laid. And there was a good chance the person who stabbed you was a cop. The corruption got so bad there the Feds almost took over the police force.
But you cannot beat New Orleans for the Blues. I destroyed several pounds of my brain on bourbon and blues in New Orleans.
f**k jazz. New Orleans is Blues.
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