Red Lights And Hot Music

Red Lights and Hot MusicBarrelhouse and whorehouse -- the two were inseparable in Storyville. Formally established in 1897 and at its hell-raising peak in 1899, the thirty-eight block red-light district in New Orleans' French Quarter acquired world fame and a sort of vicious glamour as the only vice settlement in the United States created by specific law. Storyville was shut tight in 1917 by a wartime order from Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels. During its short life Storyville produced, by conse...