Treme - My Indian Red

from treme's first season finale, "my indian red" by danny barker & baby dodds trio.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Treme
• Davis McAlary
• Big Chief Lambreaux
• Steve Zahn
• Clarke Peters
• New Orleans
• 6th Ward
• Mardi Gras
• Indians

[AbdulazizM1982]

I love the show but I need to understand "chief" and his songs, what's the origin of it? Are they all old Indian and tribal stuff?

[LTmattYT]

@AbdulazizM1982 well yeah, from mardi gras indians. blacks in new orleans do the whole indian thing because the indians thought it was wicked for man to own man, and thus helped the blacks back in the day when whites were asking indians to help contain the slaves. kinda like they're bonding over a common enemy. lol

[mrkennedy4321]

Where can I find this song??? I have a Dr. John version but the original?

Any place were I can find "Danny Barker and Baby Dodds Trio"

[LTmattYT]

@mrkennedy4321 on the louisiana music factory website. the album is "Jazz A La Creole" by baby dodds trio.

[joerox23456]

bro just type the lyrics into google and it finds the song

[LTmattYT]

@joerox23456 lol i tried that, no luck

[bluesmeister2006]

I love this version, and this scene from the show hits me hard. I grew up in Louisiana, and am still learning about the Indians. Treme should have racked up a barrel of Emmys for 2010, but people don't understand our culture.  Some might say it's racism, but who knows. Hollywood block votes on these things, as I know, I was nominated 2 years ago.

[citrinestone]

This is such a beautiful, informative, true-to-life show. I really really hope it gets better ratings in the future, because it SO deserves it. It's a little like what reality TV would be like if it was meaningful and poetic.

...And portrayed by actors, but still.

[southernstyle228]

This is my new fav song !!!

[drktigger]

This show as just as good as The Wire... just not in the same way...

[skinnypi]

@AbdulazizM1982 Cleaver...Dumb ass!

[MrWayneKeller]

I love this show so damn much.

[dragondnzer27]

@AbdulazizM1982 i am from new orleans. well the mardi gras indians after Slavery in Louisiana no one went to any thing with the free slave's they hook up with the indians around louisiana. now they celebrat when the indians help them out. the chief is the person how get them together. and they put on a relly good show

[AbdulazizM1982]

@skinnypi I will use it to find your mother.

[skinnypi]

@AbdulazizM1982 you have google. use it!

[AvalonMorley]

@bluesmeister2006 Congratulations on being nominated. Anyway, I know that awards like the Emmy, the Oscar, etc., are essentially silly, based on an invalid premise, but I still really wanted TREME to get some high-profile accolades that way. Don't know a lot about the various aspects of Louisiana's culture, but love learning about it, and especially from this series. LOVE this show!

[AvalonMorley]

@LTmattYT Interesting, and thanks. Yet, I only recently learned that, before the Civil War, there were some Indians/Native Americans (apparently mostly relatively assimilated into the white folks' culture, due to factors like intermarriage) who did own African-heritage slaves, and did not support abolition. Nothing is without complexity, no matter how much we might want things simple.