Issue Articles
Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music: Irma Thomas
In 1960 Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas showed up to audition at WYLD studio in New Orleans for Joe Banashak and Larry McKinley of Minit Records. The fledgling label was […]
Dr. John and the Lower 911, Sippiana Hericane (Blue Note)
New Orleans is gone but something of it remains that needs to be both rebuilt and reclaimed. Though something is lost, that doesn’t make us losers. Though there is less […]
Benjy Davis Project, The Angie House (Bogalusa Records)
Baton Rouge native Benjy Davis is only 21 and he already has a list of songwriting accomplishments behind them that most rockers don’t assemble in a lifetime. His anthem “New […]
Katrina Blues
It is more than a little strange to be back in New Orleans on the first cool-ish night of autumn after the summer that would never end. That mustard gas […]
Davis Rogan, The Once and Future DJ (Independent)
Now that everyone’s all of a sudden an expert on New Orleans music, violent distortions of the city’s sonic history are being promulgated by pundits in faraway cities. The general […]
Ghost Music: Shannon McNally
A lazy, sun-dappled August breeze rustled the broad leaves of the maple tree shading Song Café on Chartres Street. It was a quiet Sunday at midday and only two people […]
