Treme News: It’s a “Shame”

Here in the office, managing editor Joseph Irrera has been obsessed with the Davis McAlary (Steve Zahn) version of Smiley Lewis’ “Shame Shame Shame” from episode 5 of Treme. We checked with Treme to see if there are plans to release it.

It will be on the soundtrack album, music supervisor Blake Leyh says, which should be out before September. “There’s a whole other verse to the song that we edited out for the broadcast version of the scene, which is quite incendiary and hilarious in another way,” Leyh says.

For those who missed it, here’s the version that aired:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2ggFMpnlPQ&feature=related[/youtube]

–Alex Rawls