He was a great guy and that was a great opportunity. I have watched all 36 episodes of HBO’s Treme — some of them more than once including the commentary and music notes. At the end of May The Dodgy took a trip to New Orleans. There’s no clear plot right away, the Davis McAlary character is slightly annoying, and the post-Katrina mess seems overwhelming. Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine plays Jacques, her sous chef. I think it was money. (As a side note, there was an NPR story about Deon Taylor over the weekend which noted that the commentaries included on discs served as his first lessons in filmmaking.). View all posts by Tim Sweeney. Her husband Creighton Bernette (played by New Orleans resident John Goodman) is an English professor at Tulane University and a fervent defender of all things New Orleans. Davis Rogan and Wendell Pierce on “Treme.”, “Before David Simon gave a shit about me Alex Chilton did. At first, it’s hard to know what to make of Treme. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Her daughter Sofia (India Ennenga) finishes high school and enters college as the series progresses. You should stick with it, though, because David Simon and Eric Overmyer know what they’re doing. Senator R. Clayton "Clay" Davis is a corrupt State Senator from Baltimore. Occasionally, when someone learns about my New Orleans music show, they’ll ask me: “Have you seen. I miss him too.”. Making such unlikeable assholes as Jimmy McNulty and Davis McAlary the representatives of white America may be a conscious choice on David Simon’s part. Rogan also served as a consultant on Treme and was a writer on one of the episodes. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. There’s more to NOLA than Bourbon Street | Sweeney's Gumbo YaYa, Mardi Gras Indians integral to New Orleans sound | Sweeney's Gumbo YaYa, Carnival Season ends with a bang on Fat Tuesday | Sweeney's Gumbo YaYa, Olympia marching band rumbles through downtown | Sweeney's Gumbo YaYa, Rebirth headed back to the Tractor and Dantes | Sweeney's Gumbo YaYa, Light-footed Treme actor on Gumbo YaYa | Sweeney's Gumbo YaYa, Music to Inspire Voting (or listen to while waiting to vote), New Orleans clears the air in its bars and nightclubs. There are in fact two guys named Davis—Davis Rogan, or as he now calls himself “The Real Davis,” and Davis McAlary, the Treme character based on Rogan. While some of the people playing themselves were politicians, chefs, writers, community activists and Mardi Gras Indian Chiefs, most of them were musicians. ©1999-2020 by Mark Czerniec. . Both shows incorporated aspects of local government, restaurant businesses, tribal societies, and quirky disc jockeys along with the inter-character drama and romance. If you know little about New Orleans but are interested, the show is a great place to start your education. It lasted three and a half. Treme then follows its characters through the following months and years, as they attempt to put their lives and their city back together and move forward. James DuMont of “Treme” just hanging out in front of Three Muses. Truly awesome. His son Delmond Lambreaux (played by Rob Brown) is a recognized trumpeter who has moved on to modern jazz in New York. What you see is truly what you hear. Davis and Van Ronk are different in many ways, of course; most notably, perhaps, Van Ronk did not begin his career as part of a duo. Literally hundreds of New Orleans-based musicians participated in its filming. Yesterday, I pulled up the full cast listing of the show on IMDB and did a search for “self” and “selves” as in people and bands portraying themselves. To really twist your brain, you will see in various Treme scenes the real Davis performing on piano backing up the fictional Davis.
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