Author Archives: Gianluca Tramontana

Honeyboy Edwards: Riding the Rails

It’s not every day that an interview subject slips his hand under his pillow and slides out a pistol. “When you got money,” 95-year-old blues musician David “Honeyboy” Edwards says, unclipping and reclipping the magazine of his .38, “it’s good to be on your cues.” More than 70 years ago, just before the Depression, a [...]

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J&M Studio: House of Rock

A young Mac Rebennack, still in short trousers, was tagging along with his father who was visiting his friend, studio owner and engineer Cosimo Matassa in his tiny back room recording studio at the edge of the French Quarter. “I can tell you every musician [that] was there” recalls Rebennack—now Dr. John—over 50 years from [...]

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