On April 30, 2006, Bruce Springsteen stood on a stage at the Jazz Fest and introduced a song he had written about a city that had faced a disaster. Most in the crowd were still shocked about Hurricane Katrina that had broken the levees around New Orleans only seven months earlier. The crevasse left the
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