John Boutté - At the Foot of Canal Street

It's unfair to say that when David Mills died so unexpectedly on March 30 that he left behind unfinished work, mostly because he had accomplished so much in his time on earth. However, when I recently visited his Vox.com blog, I noticed that he had posted a song there on March 28. Usually the songs that he posted there would show up as links from posts on his main blog, undercoverblackman, but if he meant to do so for this song, as seems likely, he didn't have a chance to get to it. He's been on my mind again because I just finished watching The Corner, the 2000 HBO mini-series for which he and David Simon won Emmies as creators and writers. So to honor his memory just a little more, and to perhaps continue some of his work a little bit, here is that song that he posted. "At the Foot of Canal Street" is, as the title makes clear, a song about New Orleans, where David was working and where he died.