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What Fats Domino Means to New Orleans

April 20, 2015 by: David Kunian

Listen. You can hear Fats Domino everywhere in New Orleans, even in places where there is silence. There is something about his rhythms and melodies that are in the way people walk and horns riff and cars drive and streetcars squeal and cutlery clanks and cast-iron pots simmer. It might be over 65 years since he took an old junker blues riff and joyously proclaimed that he was

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