Issue Articles
Boozoo Chavis-Warning: For Mature Audiences Only
The directions to his house that Boozoo Chavis gives journalists who call to schedule interviews with him can be confusing. Sometimes he says “turn right” when he means “turn left” […]
CPS Records, Local Club News & the River Babys Controversy
Work continues apace on the long-awaited, and as-yet-untitled, Rod Bernard album on CSP Records. At press time, Bernard and his star-studded band have completed all 18 tracks and are busily […]
Jimmy Domengeaux, the Willie Tee Story & More
In the early-morning hours of January 25, the Acadiana music scene suffered the premature loss of yet another talented musician. Jimmy Domengeaux, the 44-year-old guitarist in Steve Riley and the […]
Angelique Kidjo at Festival International de Louisiane, Frigg A-Go-Go & A Batch of Local Releases
The Festival International de Louisiane–the annual, free, week-long April event that transforms Downtown Lafayette into a multi-cultural, multi-sensual orgy–has announced that the main act for Festival ’99 will be none […]
Tying Up Loose Ends in Cajun Country
Remember the Dr. Tommy Comeaux Endowed Chair in Traditional Music that was reported in this space last month? Well, it turns out that the fundraising concert known as Medicine Show […]
Buckwheat Zydeco
When Stanley Dural, Jr. better known as Buckwheat Zydeco to his many fans- titled his 1997 album Trouble, he had no idea how prophetic the title would be. Despite the […]
Hunter Hayes, A Tommy Comeaux Benefit & More
On October 30, Hunter Hayes, the best-known of Acadiana’s growing brood of child-Cajun musicians, made what will no doubt turn out to be one of the most talked-about appearances of […]
Wayne Toups, More Than Just a Little (BTM)
On last year’s Toups, his first blue-eyed soul Nashville album after a career of red-beans-and-rice Louisiana ones, Wayne Toups shed his zydecajun image so thoroughly that purists bad-mouthed the album […]
Brad Randell & the Zydeco Ballers & Kojack and the Zydeco Warriors
“When I was small, my mom would have zydeco on the radio, but I didn’t like it. I liked rap and stuff like that.” The young man making that statement […]
