{"id":21482,"date":"2014-06-04T05:53:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=21482"},"modified":"2014-06-04T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:34:21","slug":"the-isla-vista-blues-watch-hurray-for-the-riff-raffs-st-roch-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-06\/the-isla-vista-blues-watch-hurray-for-the-riff-raffs-st-roch-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Isla Vista Blues&#8211;Watch Hurray for the Riff Raff&#8217;s &#8220;St. Roch Blues&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/493791421.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/493791421.jpg\" alt=\"Shooting Rampage In Santa Barbara Leaves Seven Dead\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/493791421.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/493791421-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/493791421-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bullets are flying from a young man&#8217;s hands.\u00a0 People are dying, and no one understands.\u00a0 And I keep on crying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Been twelve days since that <strong>Isla Vista Friday<\/strong> when the world got taken to its knees by a young madman.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 The randomness of the events adds to the misery, with no rhyme or reason to explain the death of the innocents and what was left of the innocence.<\/p>\n<p>Since that damnation day, we&#8217;ve had <a href=\"http:\/\/hurrayfortheriffraff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hurray for the Riff Raff&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>St. Roch Blues<\/strong><\/em> on repeat at <strong>Chez Lefort<\/strong>.\u00a0 If there&#8217;s a more fitting song to sum up the aftermath of that <strong>Isla Vista<\/strong> night, we&#8217;re all ears.\u00a0 Watch &#8217;em and weep with the doo-wop below as the video cuts between the band and the song-inspiring <strong>St. Roch<\/strong> neighborhood (in which a series of murders occurred in 2011) in the band&#8217;s hometown of <strong>New Orleans<\/strong>.\u00a0 The song&#8217;s lyrics are at bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Once again we&#8217;re late to find <strong>Hurray for the Riff Raff<\/strong>, only discovering them earlier this year.\u00a0 Singer-songwriter <strong>Alynda Lee Segarra<\/strong> and band have been receiving deserved praise for their recent roots album <em><strong>Small Town Heroes<\/strong><\/em><strong>, <\/strong>and <em><strong>St. Roch Blues<\/strong><\/em> is just a taste of this enthralling &#8220;new&#8221; artist.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have more on this band and their great album later, but we&#8217;ve got a song to listen to again.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got the Isla Vista blues.\u00a0 Be better world.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GsfNmg9dGpM\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There must be somewhere in this whole world<br \/>\nThere must be somewhere in this whole world<br \/>\nCause I keep on trying<br \/>\nI keep on trying<br \/>\nBullets are flying from a young man\u2019s hands<br \/>\nPeople are dying, no one understands<br \/>\nAnd I keep on crying<br \/>\nI keep on crying<br \/>\nBaby please don\u2019t go down to New Orleans<br \/>\nCause you don\u2019t know the things I seen<br \/>\nBullets are flying<br \/>\nBullets are flying<br \/>\nI got the St Roch blues down in my soul<br \/>\nI\u2019ve seen so many of my good friends go<br \/>\nAnd it\u2019s won\u2019t be long til I go<br \/>\nIt won\u2019t be long til I go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bullets are flying from a young man&#8217;s hands.\u00a0 People are dying, and no one understands.\u00a0 And I keep on crying.&#8221; Been twelve days since that Isla Vista Friday when the world got taken to its knees by a young madman.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 The randomness of the events adds to the misery, with no rhyme or reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}