556. Richard Sexton and Randolph Delehanty

556. Today we talk with Richard Sexton and Randolf Delehanty about the 2nd edition of their classic work, New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence. The book focuses on the interiors, furnishings, art collections, and gardens of a handful of creative people in New Orleans in the 1990s. Dreamers and urban pioneers, they included bohemian artists, artisans, architects, preservationists, activists, antiquarians, restaurateurs, and teachers, all living outside the American mainstream. They tolerated crumbling plaster, exposed lathe, and sagging galleries in exchange for communal festivity and joie de vivre. Richard is returning to the Podcast after an earlier visit when we discussed his book, Creole World.

1. This week in Louisiana history. January 13, 1818, Noah Ludlow opens St. Philip Street Theatre.
2. This week in New Orleans history. Danny Barker was born January 13, 1909. African-America Creole guitar and banjo player, songwriter, composer, singer, author, historian, teacher, storyteller, humorist, actor, painter. Jazz Hall of Fame member.  Recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Music Master Award and numerous other honors. Played on more than 1,000 records of Jazz, Swing, Blues, Bebop, and Traditional.  Husband of legendary singer Blue Lu Barker.
   
3. This week in Louisiana. Krewe of Chewbacchus Parade. Saturday, January 20, 7:00 pm in Marigny. he parade consists of roughly 100 contraptions which are either pushed, pedaled, or pulled and are built onto bicycles, homemade trailers, and shopping carts. Chewbacchus believes that green parades are the “Future of Revelry” and does not use internal combustion engines to power floats. The mad scientists who engineer the krewe’s contraptions have found clever ways to build amazing floats that don’t require petroleum products.
   
4. Postcards from Louisiana. Rickey Caesar at Blue Nile.

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