2ND LINE, ANY TIME | NOLA | LOUISIANA

2nd Line any timeNEW ORLEANS | LOUISIANA

TEXT BY JONAS LARSSON | PHOTO BY ANDERS BERGERSEN

At first, I think “tourist trap”, but my feet won’t start tapping, this really swings. Sure, these guys—for they are mostly guys—do play for the droves of tourists, but they are far from amateur street musicians. And what would you expect, this is NOLA, the swingiest city in the South. Sorry Memphis, Atlanta, and Nashville, but in my book, these horns are awfully hard to beat. I did of course say this about some country music heard at a honky-tonk bar in Nashville… but I stand my ground! Here come’s a business woman in a pencil skirt, high heels, and touting a briefcase—but a dance break, there is absolutely time for that. And that’s what I love. No matter who you are, where you’re from, whatever your stature in society, as soon as those horns start going into a 2nd line, it is impossible not to feel good. You dig?