May 1997
BackTalk
Bluesworthy
Bookmark
Cover Story
- James Booker: A Pianist's Perspective
I might as well state this right off the bat: I never knew James Booker. When he died I was a…
Dis 'n' Dat
Features
- Fest Focus: Steve Riley
Sitting around hefty plate lunches inside T-Coon's restaurant in downtown Lafayette, three-fifths of Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys discuss the… - The Fat Man Sings
- Jazz Fest 101: Going to School on Some of This Year's Premier Performers
- Fest Focus: Charlie Miller
- Fest Focus on Food
- Fest Focus: Irie Vibrations
- Fest Focus: Allen Fontenot
- Fest Focus: Germaine Bazzle
- Fest Focus: Al Jarreau
- Fest Focus: Jean Knight
- Fest Focus: King Floyd
- Fest Focus: Clarence "Frogman" Henry
- Fest Focus: Thousand & Car
- Fest Focus: On Jazzy Crafts
- Fest Focus: Bruce Daigrepont
- Fest Focus: Tim Laughlin
- Fest Focus: The Zion Harmonizers
- Fest Focus: Wayne Toups
The story goes that in 1992, a teenage girl was in a terrible car crash on Halloween night in Baton Rouge,… - Welcome to the Club
- Fest Focus: Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes
- Fest Focus: Barbara Shorts
- Fest Focus: Banu Gibson
- Makin' Music from Scratch
- Fest Focus: Woodenhead
- Fest Focus: Widespread Panic
Film & Video Bits
Letters
Mojo Mouth
Plugged In
Straight, No Chaser
Talkin' 'bout New Orleans
Reviews
- Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton, Doc Cheatham/Nicholas Payton (Verve)
- the subdudes, Live at Last (High Street)
- Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias, 1313 Hoodoo Street (AIM)
- Timothea, From the School of Hard Knocks (Blue Soul)
- Jo-El Sonnier, Cajun Pride (Rounder)
- Fiction, Fiction (Demo CD)
- John Carey, You Must Decide (Independent)
- Saddletramps, Saddletramps (Victory City)
- Mustang Lightning, Horsehead (Independent)
- One A-Chord, Bound for Glory (Spirit)
- Amedee Frederick, Creole Man (Blue Soul)
- James Booker, More Than All the 45s, Rare & Previously Unreissued Recordings (1954-1962) (Night Train International)
- Roy Carrier and the Night Rockers, Nasty Girls (Right On Rhythm)
- Frank Zappa, Have I Offended Someone?/Strictly Genteel (Rykodisc)
