New Orleans is still laid flat, but musicians are returning. “New Orleans has a uniqueness that no other city has, and that’s part of all us. We need to get back, and when we do, in terms of its musical atmosphere, New Orleans will start to return to what it was. But it’ll take a while, because the poor were such a big part of that city. They were the ones who made so much of that great music. You had your white collars and your blue collars – but you also had your dirty collars. And that’s where soul and groove and all that came from.”