Hot New Single 'Sweet New Orleans' Grabbing Listeners Hearts with its Focus on the Victims of Katrina

New York, NY (Feature Group News Service) - In her new single, Sweet New Orleans, singer/songwriter Rachel Black asks the question, 'What kind of a country tells a population that they're not worth saving?'

Rachel Black, a student at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, sat by her television, like many other Americans, horrified by the images of trapped New Orleans Katrina victims. Wrapping her lament and call to action around the phrase, no one is kept in political obscurity because of poverty, Black sings of a boy with 'flooded eyes' whom she sees on her TV every day and night. 'He looks into the camera and asks America why?'

The lyrics of the song contain words that are over 2500 years old and that are just as true today as they were then. Rachel Black commented:

"I channeled my outrage into a song that would quote the words of the Greek philosopher, Pericles, who championed the concept of democracy. He told how no one is kept in political obscurity because of poverty…that's why our constitution is called a democracy. Because the power is in the hands of the 'whole people.'"

Since its release on February 10, the song has flooded the Internet airwaves, showing up on both sides of the Atlantic. A new fan in England emailed: 'Your music made me cry.'

Sweet New Orleans is a protest song in the great tradition of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War protests of the 1960s. But this is a new generation, with questions for a government that failed its most vulnerable citizens in a time of crisis-not a 9/11 sneak attack, but a predictable and a predicted disaster.

Rachel, who just turned 21, grew up in the Washington D.C. suburbs. She has never considered herself particularly 'political,' but could no longer remain silent as she watched the suffering.

All she ever wanted to do was make music. Now she is also making waves. Sweet New Orleans, as well as a selection of other songs, is available at no charge at: www.rachelblack.com.