A 100-page photography book published by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation on Charles Muir Lovell's documentary photographs of the subject of New Orleans second line parades. The publication Includes a foreword by Don Marshall, Executive Director of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation; and essays by Jason Berry, author of City of A Million Dreams, John Lawrence, former Director of Museum Programs of the Historic New Orleans Collection, and musicologist and NPR commentator Gwen Thompkins.

The book is Illustrated with 85 photographs by Charles Muir Lovell from 2009 to 2021. Charles Muir Lovell’s passion is photographing people within their cultures. Upon moving to New Orleans, he began documenting the city’s second line parades, social aid and pleasure clubs, jazz funerals, and brass bands, preserving for posterity a unique and vibrant part of New Orleans’s rich cultural heritage. His photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are found in several museum permanent collections. He received the Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography in 2020 from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. He holds an MFA and a BS in photography, from Central Washington University and East Texas State University, respectively.

Soon after moving to New Orleans, Lovell stumbled, strictly by chance, on his very first second line parade. That was August 2009 in Tremé, a Black Men of Labor second line. After that, he never looked back. Over the next decade, week after week, he shot tens of thousands of photographs of second lines. During the Covid shutdown, which stopped even the seemingly unstoppable parades, he finally had the time to go back and review his collected photographs which resulted in the book that presents Acknowledgements, Chronology, Contributor, About the Photographs and Photographer.