bob miller // photographer. visual journalist. 

MULTIMEDIA

Street Song

Produced for Southern Living Magazine

"Frenchmen Street in the Faubourg Marigny in New Orleans is a pulse, a holdover, an invitation, a gumbo, a front line, a late night, a memory, a wish, a tonic. It is Creole townhouse, packed together and toeing property lines. It is peels of paint and wrought iron dust and the scents of oyster factory, confectionery, and laundromat, all wafting down the arrow-straight street. It is bartender, mailman, sax player, concierge, barista, priest, lowlife, wanderer, tenor, and shopkeeper.
The thin asphalt lane locals used to call “Little Canal Street” begins on a bend of the Mississippi River where the eastern French Quarter ends and runs between Seventh Ward, Treme, and Bywater, then turns north towards Lake Pontchartrain. Underneath the shimmery asphalt lays a parish gravel; and beneath that, a cobbled row laid atop a silty bed of fine antebellum earth washed up from hundreds of years gone by. And beneath it all, it is a melody." - Taylor Bruce, travel writer

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