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Article: New Orleans lives on in 'Year Before the Flood'
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- October 5, 2009
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Hurricane Katrina gave Ned Sublette a dramatic coda for his memoir "The Year Before the Flood."
The book documents the last year that New Orleans and its thriving music scene were still fully intact before the city was nearly washed off the face of the Earth.
It's a tale full of foreboding.
"I was convinced I was seeing something imperiled," said Sublette, 58, in a phone interview. "It was clear something would happen. I just didn't know when or that it would be a 30-foot (9-meter) wall of water topping the city levees, and that after a catastrophic flood the survivors would be left to rot."
The singer-songwriter, who spent decades playing ...