III is Stanton Moore's

Stanton Moore

Stanton Moore is a drummer raised in Metairie, Louisiana. Most widely known as a founding member of Galactic, Moore has also pursued a solo recording career and recorded with bands as diverse as jazz-funk keyboardist Robert Walter and heavy metal act Corrosion of Conformity...

 third studio solo album released 2006. As each of Moore's solo albums have had unique character, III features keyboardist Robert Walter

Robert Walter (musician)

Robert Walter is a keyboard player specializing in instrumental soul jazz on the Hammond B3 organ. He is a founding memberof The Greyboy Allstars, and has since led his own band Robert Walter's 20th Congress.-Biography:...

 and guitarist Will Bernard

Will Bernard

Will Bernard is a guitarist and band leader from the San Francisco Bay Area, now living in Brooklyn, New York. He has led the Will Bernard Band, Will Bernard Trio, Will Bernard 4-tet, and Motherbug....

 for a 1970s-like soul funk with a "sense of authenticity" as "artists who live it."

It was recorded at Preservation Hall

Preservation Hall

Preservation Hall is a noted jazz performance hall located at 726 St. Peter Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. It hosts nightly concerts featuring a rotating roster of bands. The bands of Preservation Hall typically perform jazz in the New Orleans style.Despite the fame of the...

 by Mike Napolitano with equipment borrowed from Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.-Biography:...

. It closes with songs chosen as a response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...

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Personnel

• Stanton Moore
  Stanton Moore
  Stanton Moore is a drummer raised in Metairie, Louisiana. Most widely known as a founding member of Galactic, Moore has also pursued a solo recording career and recorded with bands as diverse as jazz-funk keyboardist Robert Walter and heavy metal act Corrosion of Conformity...
  
  : drums (Galactic)
• Robert Walter
  Robert Walter (musician)
  Robert Walter is a keyboard player specializing in instrumental soul jazz on the Hammond B3 organ. He is a founding memberof The Greyboy Allstars, and has since led his own band Robert Walter's 20th Congress.-Biography:...
  
  : Hammond B3 organ (Greyboy Allstars)
• Will Bernard
  Will Bernard
  Will Bernard is a guitarist and band leader from the San Francisco Bay Area, now living in Brooklyn, New York. He has led the Will Bernard Band, Will Bernard Trio, Will Bernard 4-tet, and Motherbug....
  
  : guitar (Motherbug)

Guest artists

• Skerik
  Skerik
  Skerik is an American saxophonist from Seattle, Washington. Performing on the tenor and baritone saxophone, often with electronics and loops, Skerik is a pioneer in a playing style that has been dubbed saxophonics. He is a founding member of Critters Buggin, Garage a Trois and Skerik's Syncopated...
  
  : tenor saxophonics (Les Claypool, Critters Buggin)
• Mark Mullins: trombone (Harry Connick, Jr., Bonerama)

Tracks

1. Poison Pushy
2. Licorice
3. Big 'Uns Get the Ball Rolling
4. Chilcock
5. (Don't Be Comin' with No) Weak Sauce
6. Dunkin' in the Deep
7. Maple Plank
8. Water from an Ancient Well
9. When the Levee Breaks
   When the Levee Breaks
   "When the Levee Breaks" is a blues song written and first recorded by husband and wife Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. The song is in reaction to the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927....
   
   
10. I Shall Not Be Moved

External links

• Preservation Hall - official site
• Stanton Moore - official site