The artists that cut or are cutting albums for Threadhead Records came together to record A Very Threadhead Holiday, a charming, often irreverent Christmas album. The album succeeds in being seasonal (if not always holly and jolly), and it represents the musical personalities of those involved. Craig Klein’s “Christmas on My Mind” is a good-natured [...]
Tag Archives: Alex McMurray
What Will Santa Say?
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
The adults are sitting around a table on the back porch, some with beer, some with coffee. They’re swapping wisecracks and stories while the kids are upstairs. Coats are tossed in a corner, and the Christmas lights are strung with semi-deliberation in one of the rooms of the house. It could be Christmas, but it [...]
Alex McMurray, How to Be A Cannonball (Threadhead)
July 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Alex McMurray’s long awaited new album, How to Be a Cannonball, could be the record that gives him the recognition as being one of the best songwriters working today. Every week there is some new hype about some two-bit indie rocker kid from Laurel Canyon, Hyde Park, or Alphabet City whose songs are “compelling,” “cinematic,” [...]
Alex McMurray Hits the Spot at Daniel’s
May 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Daniel’s on the Bayou 3443 Esplanade Ave. (504) 940-5939 How did you find Daniel’s? My friend Jeff Treffinger came in here on a whim and told me I had to make a point to go here since it’s in the weirdest location, so I did, and was just blown away. Where are we? We’re [...]
Happy Talk: Everybody’s Talking
October 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
It’s four days after Hurricane Gustav made landfall, and citizens are still filtering into the city as New Orleans makes a quick bounce back to life. The scheduled benefit for the Big Easy Rollergirls at the Hi Ho Lounge featuring the Happy Talk Band and Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes has been cancelled, but [...]
The New Orleans Klezmer Allstars: Language of Hurricanes
September 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
How do we talk about Hurricane Katrina? Chris Rose has referred to it as “The Thing,” as if saying its name would somehow bring it back. In OffBeat and elsewhere, John Swenson pointedly refers to it as “the Federal Flood,” reminding people that Katrina didn’t flood New Orleans; the breach of governmentally neglected levees did. [...]
Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, Mix It Up (Independent)
June 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
Mix it Up, the new album from the Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, is a bittersweet affair. The CD is guitarist Roberto Luti’s last album with the band. He was deported to Italy after overstaying his visa, and though he is replaced for now by St. Louis Slim, he’ll be missed because Mix it Up is [...]
A Heavy Load
June 1, 2007 – 12:01 am
LOUISIANA MUSIC FACTORY—The small stage of the Louisiana Music Factory is packed to the edge with musicians. Matt Perrine leads an aggregation of musicians from almost every walk of New Orleans’ musical life to promote the release of his first record, Sunflower City. He hoists his sousaphone on to his shoulder with surprising grace considering [...]
Ben Hunter Goes Pro
June 1, 1994 – 12:01 am
Show the picture of the handsome, smiling football player with the close-cropped hair and clean shaven face to most any fan, friend, or acquaintance of local roots reggae artist Ben Hunter. Then mention that the football player and Hunter is one and the same person. Witness the disbelief. How can this athlete with the shaved [...]
