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Let's Go To Jericho

from New Frontier​/​Ancient Slab by M.X. Turner

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A slow ethereal gospel lament for the beautiful and not-long-for-this-world city of New Orleans. Written and recorded the day Hurricane Ida was named as a tropical depression. By the time it hit Louisiana, it would be much, much worse. New Orleans is a place that’s always clawing its way back. This year we’ve recovered–most of us have–from the pandemic, the loss of culture standard-bearers, Hurricane Ida, the Entergy blackout, the failure of the city’s sanitation services. It’s fantastic how we fight back. But some day, there’ll be one last second line as we slog through the rising Gulf waters lapping at Rampart Street.

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Let’s go to Jericho
together we’ll climb them walls
let’s go to Jericho
Gabriel’s playing at the Preservation Hall

Someone blow the big brass horn
Young Olympians one day born
Someone blow the big brass horn
down by the river we dance is how we mourn

Someday we’ll dream this town
ghosts and hymns from the day we drowned
Someday we’ll dream this town
tears top the levees when they’re coming down

One day in the by and by
all ancestors in the sky
One day in the by and by
the Big Chiefs preach and brass bands testify

Gaza to the Lower Ninth
caught in storms black as night
Belfast to the bayou
We’ll build our boat we’ll sail the rising tide

Were we really here at all?
Lost souls sinners port of call
Was it all a glory dream
rolling in the warm Mardi Gras sunbeams

Forever darlin’ I love you
friends and comrades you’re my krewe
We’ve done our time we’ve paid our dues
love this city nothing left to lose

Let’s go to Jericho
climb the walls before they fall
let’s go to Jericho
Gabriel’s playing at the Preservation Hall

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from New Frontier​/​Ancient Slab, released November 5, 2021
M.X. Turner: acoustic guitar, bass, accordion, kick drum, handclaps, vocals

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M.X. Turner New Orleans, Louisiana

M.X. Turner has been playing and releasing records since the 1980s. Loud, passionate and wide-ranging, Turner's albums take on the system and mend the heart. Turner has played with The Service, Bad Manners, The Devil's Advocates, Diet Tribes, The Spunk Lads, RebelMart and South Sound Tug & Barge. New Frontier/Ancient Slab is his first solo album in a quarter-century. ... more

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