September 2012
BackTalk
- Treme Music Supervisor Blake Leyh Dishes on Season Three
As music supervisor for the HBO series Treme, Blake Leyh has already produced some of the most important live recordings in…
Cover Story
- Adolfo Garcia: The Metamorphosis of New Orleans' Hungriest Restaurateur
"I felt like I was lip-syncing, like I was Ashlee Simpson on Saturday Nigh Live,” says Adolfo Garcia. Garcia is talking…
Features
- Ya-Ka-Mein Lady Ms. Linda Green Rolls Deep
Ms. Linda Green knows how to roll. For the last 20 years, Green, who is widely known as “The Ya-Ka-Mein Lady,”… - Sound Bites: More Than Just Music on these Venues' Menus
Once the city government has stripped us of the live music that is New Orleans’ lifeblood, we will still have great… - Meet Me at the Second Line: The Black Men of Labor Talk Tradition
The 2012-2013 social aid and pleasure club parade season, which runs from the last Sunday in August to mid-June, has begun.… - Culture Collision: Connecting the Dots Across New Orleans' Cultural Economy
On September 5, the fourth annual Culture Collision brings together 50-plus arts organizations and gives them the opportunity to showcase their… - Homegrown: Local Indie Outfits Kick Out the Jams
Houston, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Mobile, Pensacola and Jacksonville are just some of the cities in the southern circuit that lie on… - Community Records: Breaking Rules and Making It Work for the Greater Good
New Orleans is famous for its musical community. For most people, that means jazz and blues, brass bands and the sound…
Fresh
- Collectors Unite: Jazz Record Collectors Convention Coming to French Quarter
Jazz buffs from around the world will assemble in New Orleans for the 49th Annual International Association of Jazz Record Collectors… - Fesstoration: Tipitina's to Rebuild Professor Longhair's Home
In death, as in life, Professor Longhair remains a spirit whose individuality transcends even his everlasting, idiosyncratic contribution of “rumba boogie”… - Funky Pirate Takes Hold of New Music Program
Johnny White’s Sports Bar was famous for its slogan “We Never Close” right up until the moment it went out of… - Bottoms Up Blues Gang: Home on the Run
The Bottoms Up Blues Gang learned its trade in the thriving St. Louis blues scene during the late 1990s from old…
Letters
- September 2012 Letters
FOLLOWING JUAN I have been following Juan [Michael Juan Nunez] around for about two and a half years and it…
Mojo Mouth
- Nurturing the Music Community
Sometimes, you just don’t know what you’re getting into. Oft-times, it’s a good thing you don’t—because if you did, you’d run…
OffBeat Eats
- Dining Out: R&O's, Pizza and more Bucktown-style
While Lakeview may be the best example of post-Katrina resurgence, Bucktown — across the 17th Street Canal — has managed to… - Lucky Lou Hits the Spot at Chinese Kitchen
How often do you come here? Whenever I get a chance to, meaning whenever I’m free, and I feel like I…
Dining Out
- Dining Out: R&O's, Pizza and more Bucktown-style
While Lakeview may be the best example of post-Katrina resurgence, Bucktown — across the 17th Street Canal — has managed to… - Ya-Ka-Mein Lady Ms. Linda Green Rolls Deep
Ms. Linda Green knows how to roll. For the last 20 years, Green, who is widely known as “The Ya-Ka-Mein Lady,”… - Adolfo Garcia: The Metamorphosis of New Orleans' Hungriest Restaurateur
"I felt like I was lip-syncing, like I was Ashlee Simpson on Saturday Nigh Live,” says Adolfo Garcia. Garcia is talking…
Photo Op
- Curtis Knapp Captures the Unnaturals' Kevin Bowles' Sharp Edges
We could call this image a rock-a-billy food photograph, if you need a label. I rarely use props, so this was…
The Spot
- Lucky Lou Hits the Spot at Chinese Kitchen
How often do you come here? Whenever I get a chance to, meaning whenever I’m free, and I feel like I…
Reviews
- The Radiators, The Last Watusi (Radz Records)
The Radiators emerged from underground status as one of the country’s best unsigned groups in 1978 and became a trademark of… - The Normals, Vacation to Nowhere (Last Laugh Records)
Two extra-musical details: The CD/DVD package for the Normals’ Vacation to Nowhere comes with a set of 3D glasses, and when… - Various Artists, Best of New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians (Mardi Gras Records)
Mardi Gras Records has put together some excellent compilations of New Orleans music. The company has great taste in the selection… - Scott Cooper, A Leg Trick (Independent)
Perfectionists like Peter Gabriel and Steely Dan may spend years on an album, but Bay Area musician Scott Cooper has got… - Peter Novelli, Louisiana Roots and Blues (Chalet Music)
There are times on Louisiana Roots & Blues that you’d wish Peter Novelli would just burn a fast one for a… - Frank Lowe, The Loweski (ESP-Disk)
In researching the archives of ESP-Disk, producer Michael Anderson has discovered some great and wild sessions never heard before. This one,… - The Allyn Robinson Project, Full Circle (Independent)
Wayne Cochrane and the C.C. Riders are a legendary soul band known for the near-hysterical performances of the white-pompadoured Cochrane, whose… - Tuba Skinny, Rag Band (Independent)
It is apt that Tuba Skinny’s new release has the word “Rag” in it. The music here goes back beyond Dixieland… - Marzette Watts, Marzette Watts and Company (ESP-Disk)
Marzette Watts was a painter and reedman whose Cooper Square loft in New York City hosted many music jams in the… - The Honeypots, Something Sweet (Threadhead)
This very enjoyable record is a collaboration among three talented local songwriters (Lynn Drury, Margie Perez and Monica McIntyre) and percussionist… - Harlan, Night Loop (Independent)
“Sonic wave / You’re favorite noise” croons John Harlan Norris against a massive reverbed twang on “Daffodil,” the first song on… - Showarama Hot Trio, Showarama Hot Trio (Independent)
The beauty of gypsy jazz is how immediately likeable it is without sacrificing one iota of sonic complexity. New Orleans practitioners… - Kristina Morales, Wonderful World (Independent)
After decades of countless despondent, downtrodden renditions of Satchmo’s starry-eyed swan song, finally someone had the audacity to get it right.… - Willie Tee and Cypress, Legends Making Memories (Jin Records)
Normally Cypress is billed as Warren Storm and Willie Tee & Cypress, but when Storm couldn’t make the recording sessions, Tee… - Eddie C. Campbell, Spider Eating Preacher (Delmark)
Chicago’s Eddie Campbell has been making records for over four decades. I have yet to hear one that wasn’t top-notch, yet… - Andrew Baham Quintet, ...And They Called It Love (AFO Records)
When not playing the onstage and studio foil of Sammie Williams in Big Sam’s Funky Nation, trumpeter Andrew Baham has demonstrated… - Benny Turner, A Tribute to My Brother Freddie King (King “B” Records)
Benny Turner has been on the local music scene for over two decades, his most notable contribution perhaps being that for… - Dwight Fitch, Jr., For Those Who Believe (Crucified 2:20 Music)
The Fitch family name is renowned in the New Orleans gospel community. Dwight Fitch Jr., the son of gospel’s dynamic duo… - Natalie Mae and Her Unturned Tricks, More Than You Know (Independent)
Natalie Mae Palms is part of a fertile crop of musicians to emerge from New Orleans’ Loyola University over the past…
