Gather 'round you cats and chicks and moldy figs. We are about to take a trip in the way back machine to a time when New Orleans was more known for influenza than for beads. In 1918 (possibly 1911 but that's debatable), a jazzy, caguely poetic monster was demanding New Orleaneans play his favorite jazz tunes or he would take his axe to their noggins. It was all very bizarre and that's the way we like it. So, join us for The Axeman of New Orleans, ya bunch of barn burners.

Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/axeman-new-orleans-preyed-italian-immigrants-180968037/

The Axeman Of New Orleans by Miriam C. Davis



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