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Director Readies The Big Beat: The Story of Fats Domino & His Band

Word of a Fats Domino research project book, CD reissue, or documentary film often gets no more than a shrug of the shoulders these days. This one, however, will surely […]

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Cyril Neville, Magic Honey (Ruf Records)

Cyril Neville is at once among the best-known and most-overlooked musicians in town. As a Neville Brother and former Meter, he’s automatic royalty, but his long catalogue of solo albums—some […]

Trombone Shorty, Say That to Say This (Verve)

This is the album that fans probably expected Trombone Shorty to make three years ago—a straight-ahead R&B disc. At the time, Shorty instead hooked up with Galactic’s Ben Ellman, whose […]

Alex Chilton, Electricity by Candlelight (NYC 2/13/97) (Bar None)

Recorded on a portable cassette machine (and sounding that way), this oft-bootlegged tape catches an impromptu acoustic set that Alex Chilton played after power went out at New York’s Knitting […]

Allen Toussaint, Songbook (Rounder)

What’s surprising about this live album isn’t so much the music, but the talking in between. The year 2009 was a late-career peak for Allen Toussaint, who was still on […]

Barrence Whitfield & the Savages, Dig Thy Savage Soul (Bloodshot)

As collections of vintage, long-lost garage rock and R&B go, this one’s mighty hot: The opening “Corner Man” has the primal pound of a prime Sonics track and recording quality […]

Star & Dagger: Rock Goddesses with a Touch of Evil

Sean Yseult grew up in an era of larger-than-life rock stars, from Freddie Mercury to Lux Interior, and it’s safe to say she took mental notes along the way. Visual […]

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Royal Teeth: Ready for the World

Life is about to get interesting for Royal Teeth. The Lafayette-rooted band has built a national foothold in record time, landing TV-commercial and videogame placement barely two years after forming. […]

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It’s Five Somewhere: Earth, Wind & Fire’s Verdine White

The 2010 Jazz Fest is legendary by now, because you filled in for Aretha Franklin. How much notice did you get? We got the call around 6 p.m., saying she’d […]

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Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, Foolers’ Gold (Independent)

“Everybody knows I’m hot,” Meschiya Lake sings here on a version of Louis Prima’s “It’s the Rhythm in Me.” Well, yes: Many of the fans who flock to her shows […]