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The musical question: in a city whose tradition during Carnival season is masking, why aren’t more people in New Orleans masking to ward off COVID-19. Lead guitar by Ken Korman (The O-Pines).

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How come you don’t care ‘bout me
I got mine on plain to see
How come you don’t care about
your teachers preacher family

Why ain’t you ain’t got a mask
New Orleans we all mask
how come you ain’t wearn’ no mask
Mardi Gras is when we mask

Uptown, downtown, Tchoupitoulas
the prez up there try to fool us
need us bareface need us sicker
poor and black this evil trickster

How a mask become a weapon?
how our kids start razor steppin’?
make the choice, this where we are
no more school, no more bars

The river up to Ponchairtrain
second lines need front line gains
Walk the Quarter no mask no care
I’m’a get what you leave in the air

How come you ain’t got a mask
Mardi Gras is when we mask
how come you ain’t wearn’ no mask
New Orleans we all mask
St. Joe’s is where we mask
Lundi Gras is when we mask
Super Sunday we all mask
Petronius we all mask
Black Men of Labor mask
Krewe of Dead Beans we all mask
Second line is where we mask
St. Ann’s is when we mask
Mardi Gras is when we mask
Muses we all mask
Krewe du Vieux is when we mask
Chewbaccus everybody mask
social aid and pleasure clubs
second line they do the dub
Everybody in this town
wear a mask
now we mask

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from New Frontier​/​Ancient Slab, released November 5, 2021
Ken Korman: lead guitar
M.X. Turner: rhythm guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, 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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