Before the hurricanes, my friend Scot of Scotland Barr and the Slow Drags visited the Delta region and wrote a song about it when he got home. It's now on his album. When thinking about the song, he said, "My main intention with 'Delta Dive' was to paint an overall feel of the Delta area, which includes tragedy. Though I didn't write it about Katrina specifically, I was thinking about the song the other day and thought, 'Wow, this could be about that.'"

    Delta Dive (S. Barr)

    Going to Morgan City to drink and die, where the desperation shines like the yellow of my eyes.
    Where geography and broken dreams meet at the only open bar on the street.

    Got bad intentions, gonna break the law, can't do it there, man, I'll just roll to Arkansas, because
    desperate times call for these things when you're dealing with the trouble love brings.

    Chorus: Burning sugar, black cane. I'm going to take that Delta dive.
She's like nothing you have seen, you just can't kill Evangeline and the memory that keeps her alive.

    The old lamplighter, his flame has gone, all the ships that used to stop there now keep rolling on...and on and on endlessly they're all drifting out there
just like me.

    Coming in broadside, too fast and torn.
My drunk old daddy told me, "Boy you better plant your corn....or else your going to reap the wind.
Have I told you 'bout the trouble I'm in?"

    You can download the song for free here.