The potential threat of Tropical Storm Gustav is shaping up like a most unwelcome case of dej� vu for certain New Orleans musicians.
Blues mouth harp and squeeze box player "Jumpin'" Johnny Sansone was recording an album in Toronto with Cuban jazz saxophonist Jane Bunnett when Hurricane Katrina smitten three years ago. Drummer Johnny Vidacovich was on tour in the Pacific northwest.
As Gustav churns toward the Gulf of Mexico, Sansone and Vidacovich are in Colorado with Tab Benoit's Voice of the Wetlands Allstars.
They are slated to be on the road with Benoit through a show early future week at the Republican National Convention.
Tuesday evening, they were thinking about loved ones facing another storm threat in New Orleans. "My married woman doesn't motor," said Sansone. "She's a little freaked out."
Vidacovich's married woman, Deborah, is in Colorado with her husband, merely is scheduled to fly home solitary Thursday. If an voidance becomes necessary, she crataegus oxycantha be doing it lonely. "Just like last time," she aforementioned. "Except now I have four dogs instead of two and a daughter with a broken foot."
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