16 tracks of the wildest New Orleans soul and R’n’B, featuring Dr John, Allen Toussaint, Fats Domino, Bobby Charles, Professor Longhair and more

I was rummaging on YouTube looking for something else when I came across some footage of Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder at an Iraq Veterans Against The War concert. Eddie in the clip ends up playing a song the audience may think he’s actually written, perhaps for the event he’s appearing at, but actually hasn’t. My guess is, though, that even if he’d introduced it as a version of a 1964 protest song by Phil Ochs called